Year One Team News

Hello Year One families,

Wow, the first four weeks have certainly flown by! The kids have all settled back into school life and it has been lovely getting to know them all and adjust to their new classroom routines. We are really proud of how well students are coming into the classroom and setting themselves up for the day independently. Now that our students know the morning routine really well we would like all students to enter the classroom independently. Goodbyes at the door make it much easier for our students to start their day well. We thank all our parents for their support in saying goodbye at the door.

It was great to finally have face to face conversations with most of our Grade 1 families and as a collective we would like to thank you for your time during ‘Meet the Teacher’ afternoon. It was a great opportunity for us to learn more about our students and how we can support them to achieve their best throughout the year ahead. 

Curriculum Focus: Weeks 5 - 6

Reading: We are continuing the Little Learners Love Literacy program that students commenced last year in Prep. During this term we will be revising stage 7.1 of the program which focuses on vowel graphemes. Our focus for week 5 will be the two syllable words that end in the phoneme ‘e’ represented by the grapheme ‘--y’, and our focus for week 6 will be the phoneme ‘i’ represented by the graphemes ‘igh’, ‘ie’ and ‘-y’.

Writing: Writing ideas will be inspired by our work in Inquiry and through the picture books we read. We will be working on remembering our capital letters and full stops and having a go at our spelling by using the great strategies that we learned in Prep. 

Numeracy: We will be looking at learning about and practising different strategies to represent and solve addition problems.

Inquiry: We are discussing what good learners do, and setting up the routines in our classroom so that everyone feels safe and supported.  

Willy Kids/Respectful Relationships: Our Willy Kids focus for weeks 5 and 6 is “Willy Kids are sociable". We will be discussing how to be sociable and how it allows us to build strong relationships and boosts feelings of well-being for ourselves and others. Our focus for Respectful Relationships this term is “Emotional Literacy”. We have been learning and will continue to focus on recognising and identifying our own emotions and describing situations that may evoke these emotions.

Blue Book Bags

It has been great to see everyone’s Blue Book Bags coming to school each day! Just a reminder to please ensure that the yellow reading record books come to school with them so that our books can be recorded. 

Warm regards,

The Grade One Team –  Zoe Kitch & Anna Swan (1K), Edan Bacegga (1B) & Claire Davies (1D)