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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Learning Experiences In Room 9 Weeks 1-5

OUR FIRST DAY
First Day Activities included team building and getting to know you activities. Students had a great time interacting with each other and talking about their interests and hobbies.

    Day 1 challenge was to learn the name and something special about a new friend that you have not          met before.  

AUSSIE DAY AT WATTLE GROVE PRIMARY

At Wattle Grove we celebrate Aussie Day in Early February. On this day we gathered in the undercover area for a special assembly dressed in our Aussie colours. On this day we donated money to a student chosen charity. This year our funds raised were given to the Cancer Foundation. 

In class on this day, we talked about Australia day and why we celebrate this day. We looked at the Australian Flag, decorated our own flag and have written something about it too. 

STEM Learning

STEM is a newly introduced subject to primary schools. STEM stands for Science,Technology,Engineering and Mathematics. This subject is inquiry based learning and develops students understanding of the mentioned subjects in an integrated and hands on way. STEM will now include teaching beginning coding skills in Early Childhood. In Room 9, We have introduced an early finishers activity that incorporates STEM learning. Week 4 challenge was to design and build a bridge using pop sticks and blu-tack. Students bridges were to be 3D and designed with strength in mind. Here are a few of our bridges...

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Room 9 2017

Hi and welcome to Room 9 for 2017!

This year we will be having lots of fun whilst learning lots of new things.

So far this year we have revised over our previous year level concepts and participated in lots of team building exercises to make new friends.

Students are loving going to specialist subjects and being taught by different teachers! They have demonstrated much enthusiasm and a love of learning this far which is fantastic.

Thank you to all the parents who attended the parent information evening. I hope this was informative. If you still have queries, please feel free to make an appointment to meet with me. I am available most days before and after school.

We look forward to working alongside both students and their parents to make the most out of the 2017 academic school year.

TERM 1 FOCUS: Weeks 1-5

PRE PRIMARY:                                        
Literacy

• Revision of letters and sounds
• Golden sight words (kindy)
• Oral language
• CVC words (3 letter words)
• Rhyme
• Syllables

Numeracy

• Number recognition
• Counting principles
• Patterning 
• Measurement - bigger, smaller, longer, shorter, taller

YEAR ONE

Literacy

• Phonics: sh, ch, th, wh, 
• Spelling: bl, cl, fl, gl, 
• Grammar: Synonyms and Antonyms
• Comprehension (reading): Predicting, Questioning

Numeracy

Year 1 students work through a maths program called PR1ME The focus for this 5 weeks is

• Numbers to 10 - connect quantity, numeral and number word
• comparing numbers (more and less)
• Number bonds (making 10)

Term 4 Learning

Term 4 is going by so quickly!


We have 6 more weeks of school left which is both exciting and sad. Students have worked really hard this Year and we are so proud of each and every one.


This term we are busy consolidating our understanding of concepts and also learning some tricky stuff, such as adverbs and similies in Literacy and borrowing and carrying tens in Mathematics.


We have had our super scientist competition again this term also congratulations to Kobe, Bella (PP) and Gorika (PP), who were selected at a classroom level as the top students.


A big pat on the back to Jessica who won overall Year 1 super scientist!
Jessica presented her experiment to the whole school this morning and has been commended on her confidence and ability to deliver a detailed presentation at such a young age. Well done, Jessica! 


I would also like to thank parents for their support with the science superstar challenge. Without your help, events like these become very difficult.


This term we also have dancing lessons, family fun night, presentation mornings, and will have swimming lessons in the last 2 weeks of school. Notes for swimming are coming home today so please ensure you receive it and return it to school before the due date.


Thanks again for your support.

LEARNING JOURNEYS

Dear Parent/Guardians,

As you will be aware we will be opening our doors to parents, guardians and care givers this Tuesday 20th September.

Students came home with invitations and a note came home last week from the school.

This learning journey experience is exceptionally beneficial for both you as parents and guardians and also to the students. We have been working very hard over the last few weeks, creating displays and deciding what activities to include to provide you with an insight into what we do everyday.

Students have decided on the interactive rotational activities and are very excited to teach you how it's done.

If there are any parents who are unable to make it then please let us know so that we can try to organise a teacher/staff member for your child to share the experience with.

The doors will be opened at 2:00pm and remain open until 3:30pm.

Until 2:30pm all students are still under my duty of care. You are able to collect your child before 2:30 if you have finished your learning journey, however, if this is the case, students MUST be signed out and I must receive a slip before I will release them. This is for the safety of students.

I hope to see all parents here on Tuesday afternoon!

Helping to Develop ICT Skills

As you may be aware, this term we were provided with two desktop computers in our classroom to develop ICT and typing skills in students.

It is imperative that students develop these skills as the National Standardised Testing (NAPLAN) will be completed online as of 2017.

ALL STUDENTS IN ROOM 9 WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS IN YEARS 3 AND 5.

We do not wish to disadvantage students in any way and so the skill of typing is necessary to ensure students are able to complete the test within the given time.

We have started basic typing in class (you have probably seen our persuasive letters on display). It would be beneficial to your child/children to allow them to have extended practice times at home with typing and general computer skills to ensure they have sufficient competence to be successful.

There are some links to typing programs on the school blog site which allow students to practice typing and develop speed and accuracy.

Please take the time to check them our with your child and have a go at home.

WATTLE DAY

On Thursday 1st September it was National Wattle Day.

At Wattle Grove Primary we celebrate this day within the school and community.

With our Room 11 buddies we celebrated Wattle Day by making cards and offering them to others. Students had a great time and their older buddies are fantastic at helping with the tricky bits.

Here are some photos of us having fun with our buddies!