Year One News

Term 3 in Grade 1

Welcome back!

Half way through the year and still so many exciting things to learn for our grade ones. We hope everyone had a relaxing break and are ready for the Term ahead. We continue to provide a rich and inclusive learning environment to our Grade One students providing opportunities to learn in different ways. Thank you to our parent helpers who will be joining us again to lend a hand in the classroom. 

Literacy

Students will continue to engage with the Little Learners Love Literacy Program and they will learn how to identify sounds and syllables through blending and manipulating new decodable words they are introduced to, each week. Students will also learn how to implement these new words into their writing and spelling. During writing sessions, students will learn how to form a range of sentences such as statements and questions while also using rich vocabulary taken from mentor texts to inspire and engage them. Students will continue to build upon their understanding of structuring sentences correctly by using capital letters, punctuation and finger spaces correctly.

Numeracy

This term, students will be learning about multiplication and division. They will be exposed to vocabulary such as sharing, groups of, repeated addition and repeated subtraction and what it means to have remainders, while using concrete materials to support their understanding. Students will learn measurement concepts of length, perimeter and area, where they will explore informal and some formal measurement of different objects. Our maths lessons reference real life experiences to help students' understand how this can be applied in their own lives. Furthermore, they will also learn about how to read graphs (data) and fractions, such as half and quarters when using shapes and groups of objects. 

History

We are excited to be bringing students a wonderful History unit: 'Then and Now'. This unit will cover everything from our Indigenous culture looking at significant events of our Australia history with rich conversations and activities. We will also focus on the history of family life, school life, technology and transport. Through our Incursion (Mrs Sargood) in Week 4, students will welcome the opportunity to immerse in the experience of attending school as though they were back in the 1800s. Students will welcome a costumed teacher to their classroom, all the way from 1870s Melbourne! Students will explore the differences in how students learned in the past and will be given the chance to see how challenging and time-consuming writing with a nib and ink is. Students are transported back to an era where children “should be seen and not heard” and experience the many rules and formalities of everyday life. Please speak to your child’s teacher about when your child’s session will occur (3rd or 4th August).

Respectful Relationships

Students will continue to explore Body Consent, Body Autonomy and identify problem solving strategies for social situations as taught in Social Skills sessions. We will continue to use the Zones of Regulations to support students' emotional status and use strategies so they can move through these zones. Furthermore, students will continue to learn through collaboration in order to develop positive coping skills, build resilience and recognise the importance of following our Agreements such as Mutual Respect and Attentive Listening. 

We look forward to working with all students and families this term.

Kind regards,

Joanna, Trang, Jess, Linda, Libby and Laura

Grade 1 Team