Stage 1

The Stage 1 team wish to thank you for attending the parent-student-teacher interviews during the last fortnight. It was wonderful to work collaboratively with you and to set important learning goals that we can help your child work towards achieving this year.

Home readers will be sent home this week (Week 7). A reading record sheet will also accompany home readers which is to be signed and returned before another reader can be borrowed. Please note that this is a time to enjoy reading a book with your child by talking about new vocabulary and making connections between the book and their own life experiences. Home reading should be about success, not stress. If you have any questions please contact your classroom teacher. 

English

We are:

• revising phonemes that we know
• learning about compound words
• learning the phoneme /oo/

Students know they are successful when they know:

• that two letters that make one sound is called a digraph
• how to identify short vowel sounds in words
• that the phoneme /oo/ can be spelled with the letters 'ue' and 'ew'

Mathematics

We are learning to measure lengths using informal units. Students know they are successful when they:

• know that an object they have chosen to measure with is called a 'unit'
• can measure by putting their unit end-to-end with no gaps or overlaps
• can choose the same unit to measure a length
• can say and record that the total length is the number and type of units used

Integrated Studies

This term students have begun learning to understand how things grow and change over time. Ask your child what they are growing in their classrooms this term and how they would describe the changes that they see.

We thoroughly enjoyed looking at all the baby and toddler photos of the students and playing "Guess Who?".

What we have been up to in Stage 1

Stage 1 Teachers