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!