NAIDOC WEEK

This term we have celebrated NAIDOC week. As a class, Room 9 completed numerous activities designed to teach students about the Aboriginal culture. On the Friday, we attended a whole school assembly where there were some special visitors. We sang a song called "Wanjoo" for the special guests. They were very impressed with us all.

Damper Making
 
 
 
 

Boomerang painting using traditional Aboriginal symbols and dots
 
 

School language detective walk and mapping skills
 
 

Term 3 Learning

This term we have already been quite busy with learning new skills and concepts in Literacy and Mathematics. Our focus for the term is as follows;

YEAR 1

LITERACY

• Bossy 'e' rule revision "Bossy 'e' bosses the vowel to say its name"
• Phonics sounds "ai", "ay", "aw", "ie", "ea - long and short", "ee" - We are learning the rule "when 2 vowels go walking the first one does the talking and says its name"
•  Blends spelling (moving into final blends)
• Homophones and homographs
• Suffixes and prefixes
• Reading strategies; predicting, questioning and connecting

NUMERACY

• Place Value: Breaking numbers into tens and ones
• Addition using place value
• Subtraction using place value
• Comparing numbers
• Graphing
• Money
• Fractions

PRE PRIMARY

LITERACY

• Blends revision
• Writing simple words with blends e.g. crab
• Blending and segmenting words  into sounds e.g. f-r-o-g    
• Adding and deleting sounds in words e.g. p-i-n-k take away the k is pin
• Spelling: sight words
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NUMERACY

• Continuing with counting on
• Partitioning to 10 
• Odd and even numbers within scope
• Ordering numbers
• Doubles facts

Last week of term

The last week has flown by so quickly. We have enjoyed a gender reveal party and were very excited when we found out Miss Watson is having a boy! We have watched Fatima present her Super Science experiment in front of the whole school. We have enjoyed our revision learning rotations with Miss Payne. We had a special movie and popcorn afternoon on the last day to celebrate all of our hard work and achievement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A big thankyou to all parents for your continued support. We hope you enjoy a well deserved break and look forward to seeing everyone back for a busy Term 3.

Procedural Writing

This Term we have focused on procedural texts. Students have had fun engaging in multiple hands on activities making things and explaining how to do so using descriptive language. Afterwards, we have a go at writing it all down.


Here are some snapshots of our fun..




Fairy Bread                                                                                    

 

Hot Chocolate With Miss Payne

Sandcastle fun

Term 2 Learning

Wow! Term 2 is almost over... time certainly flies when we are all having so much fun!

This term we have welcomed Miss Courtney Payne, a second year teaching student from Notre Dame. Mrs Carol Foggerty is also now working in our room as support to students.



This term we have focused on;



PRE PRIMARY



Literacy

• consolidation of single sounds, rhyme and syllables
• recognition of blends; initial and final (2 consonant sounds said together quickly e.g. bl)
• developing reading and comprehension strategies 
• correct letter formation
• extending our bank of sight words 
• creating images and connecting with texts read
• developing our oral language (vocabulary)
• having a go at writing using our sounds

Numeracy

• measuring and comparing an objects length using informal units
• 2D shapes 
• counting on and back (simple addition and subtraction)
• 3D shapes
• positional language

YEAR 1

Literacy

• Phonics: consolidate word families, tricky 'y' rule (y as a vowel), Controlled 'R' vowels e.g. 'er', 'ir', 'or', 'ur', 'ar', and bossy 'e' rule
• Spelling - blends sounds focus
• developing reading and comprehension strategies
• correct letter formation
• extending our bank of sight words 
• creating images and connecting with texts read
• developing our oral language (vocabulary)
• Grammar: Contractions, tense (past, present, future), homophones
• Writing: Recount consolidation and procedural writing. 

Numeracy

• subtraction stories/problem solving with number bonds
• 2d shapes and patterns
• measuring and comparing length
• 3D shapes
• ordinal numbers and positional language

Fun with Miss Payne...Mystery Bags; Creating Images

Miss Payne was introducing us to a new strategy that we call creating images. Creating Images is where we take the information from a text and use our senses to help us create an image in our heads. Mis Payne told us that adults do this all the time when they read books with no pictures!

She first got us interested by creating some mystery bags. We were only allowed to feel inside and make a guess about what could be inside. Each bag had objects from the same place. We had to move around and guess each thing then use our knowledge to predict the place they were all from. Afterwards we read a story which linked to the theme, but, it had no front cover! Our job was to become the illustrators and design our own front cover for the story. We had a great time!

Creating Images is FUN!

Harmony Day 21st March 2017

Apologies for the delayed post...Term 1 got away from me towards the end. 

We celebrated Harmony Day at school on the 21st March 2017. Students were invited to come dressed in their traditional clothing or had the option to wear orange. We first went to a whole school assembly/harmony parade. Each class got up and paraded around, showing the school how great we looked in our outfits. 

After this, our celebrations continued in the classroom where we organised passports and boarding tickets. Miss Watson turned the interactive board into a flight simulator and we took a day trip to Italy! When we arrived Signora Webber was there to greet us in our own mini Italian Restaurant. With a little help, we all made ourselves a mini pizza. Once they were cooked and cooled, we sat down to a pizza feast. YUM!! 

Once our lunch was finished, it was time to collect our boarding passes and passports and jump back on the plane back to Wattle Grove where our parents would be able to collect us in the afternoon. 

    
  
 

  

Solving Word Problems

This year Year 1 students will be focusing on a new strategy for solving word problems in Numeracy. This strategy is referred to as the CUBES strategy. CUBES is an acronym for students to remember the process of which to identify the important information and eliminate the rest.

Word Problem Wednesday is to be completed using this strategy to enable students further practice and refinement of their problem solving skills.

 Here is an example of CUBES in action...

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