Grade 1/2 News
Term 1, Week 8
Grade 1/2 News
Term 1, Week 8
Recently we have been investigating 2D shapes and their properties. We have found there are lots of shapes in our school environment and we are sure there will lots of shapes in our homes as well, some families might like to look for these! We also created 2D shape monsters in class.
Students have been busy writing stories and focusing on using the correct punctuation in their writing. We have begun practising being a 'Breakdown Buddy' where we used Triple A feedback to discuss our writing with a partner identifying what we have done well, something we could do next time to make our writing even better and how we might achieve that. This has led into discussions about writing goals in our classrooms and this could also be a great conversation to have at home, to continue students thinking about what they are working on and how they can achieve their goal.
This week Will raced Mr Trezise after achieving enough GuGu stickers. There was lots of build up to the race and it was a tight finish!
Mathematics: During week 9 students will continue to focus on the concepts of money and 3-Dimensional objects. We will look at counting small collections of coins, ordering notes and coins according to their value and comparing an amount of money with the cost of different items. Week 10 will be an opportunity for students to revise the concepts learned this term.
English: In Reading sessions students will be practising 'retell; including a sequence of events'. This will require students to develop their comprehension skills through listening to a story and then using their own words to retell the story including the events in sequence. We will revise some of the sounds already learned this term and also the words we have been practising each week for example some, went, made and look.
During Writing we will continue our focus on narratives and recounts. Students have been focusing on their writing at a sentence level, investigating the use of nouns and adjectives, and the way we can structure these in a sentence.
Topic: The last two weeks of the term will see the conclusion of our topic 'Growing Older and Wiser'. Students will be focusing on what conflict is, successful ways to resolve conflict and understanding each others emotions during a period of conflict. They will also reflect on what they have learned this term and make connections between what they knew at the beginning of the unit compared with what they know now.