YEAR 1

FROM THE CLASSROOM

It has been a terrific start to Term 2! Lots of happy and excited faces and many stories about the holidays.  

In Reading, students practised identifying interesting words in a chosen mentor text and learned how to find the main idea of a story. This supported them in retelling the story in their own words. 

In Writing, students were hooked into a new Talk for Write text by a wonderful performance by some of our year 1 teachers, lots of questions and excitement was built. 

During Phonics, students began to learn 7.2 sounds starting with: ar (art party), al (half pip), a (fast asleep at last). Students look at these sounds through reading and writing tasks.  

In Mathematics, students are ordering and investigating time using vocabulary such as days, weeks, months and years.

LEARNING INTENTIONS FOR NEXT WEEK

READING

• I can find interesting words in books.
• I can find the main idea from a story.
• I can retell the story in our own words.

WRITING

• I can describe a character using 3 kinds of adjectives in one sentence.  
• I can define what an adjective is and its purpose in a sentence. 

PHONICS

• I can identify the /or/,/aw/ digraph.
• I can read and write words with the /or/, /aw/ digraph.
• I can recognise alternative /or/, /aw/ graphemes in /ore/, /our/ and  /al/.

MATHS

• I can compare objects according to their length and explain my reasoning
• I can order objects according to their length and explain my reasoning.

REMINDERS

TISSUES

We are kindly asking for donations of tissue boxes for the classroom. These are always greatly appreciated especially for our upcoming winter season.  

25 NIGHTS OF READING

Everleigh-Paige 1H, Anira - 1B,  Laya - 1C,  Keshvi - 1C,  Aaron -1C

50 NIGHTS OF READING

Maisam - 1H, Advikha - 1H, Shehzad - 1A, Deetya - 1A , Anraj - 1A,  Ryaan -1C,  Ekraj - 1C, Enya -1C,  Jiaan - 1C

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