Our Reading Workshops this term have allowed us to explore different types of poetry and the way poetry is structured. We have engaged with Classic Australian poems like Waltzing Matilda and Mulga Bill and have compared this with contemporary poetry. We explored a variety of different Dreamtime Stories and had the opportunity to learn more about Indigenous Culture through these texts.

We have also been using different types of poetry in our Writing Workshops and have created different poems such as rhyming couplets, snapshots and concrete poems. We have included lots of ‘WOW words’ and describing words in our writing to make it more interesting and have practised brainstorming rhyming words.

Our Phonics sessions have focused on using our reading and spelling tools to decode words. This has helped us to develop our reading fluency.

"I like reading because you can learn new words" - Willow (1K)

“I like reading because it helps us to read and learn” - Tate (1K)

“I liked writing stories because I like creating characters" - Talia (1K)

“I like writing because I like writing like Aaron Blabey and using LOUD words” - Olive (1K)

“I like reporting on my weekend to Miss Keay in diary writing” - Will D (2K)

“I like doing handwriting” - Stefan (1/2C)

Year 1/2 Newsletter

Term Three · 30 Aug 2018

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