Hello everyone and welcome to another busy week in 1EJ and 1KS,

Congratulations to Shayan who has finished his reading booklet and Alissa who has reached 50 reading nights

Congratulations also to Moth for reading 150 nights!

In literacy, this week have started looking at ‘Suffixes’.  We know that suffixes are always at the end of words. This week we focussed on learning the suffixes ‘s and ing’.

In literacy we have also been looking at the sight word look.

In mathematics, we have been measuring the height and length of different objects. We explored using flowers, classroom objects and even Pokemon characters.

In Technologies, we tested our bridges. We had to build a bridge that could fit a troll underneath and the 3 billy goats gruff on top. Have a look at our creations.

We also met up with our buddies this! 1EJ read their information books to their buddies and the bigger buddies shared some laptop learning with us.

Welcome to another wonderful week in 1EJ and 1KS. We had a very busy and exciting week with Mr White visiting to look at our lanterns, the moon lantern festival assembly and working with a guest speaker to learn and investigate cultural artefacts.

Congratulations to Monairene for reading 125 nights and Wing for reading 25 nights!

We were lucky enough to be able to attend a cultural artefacts workshop held by Iteka. Iteka is an Ajdnyamathanha Narungga and Wangkangurru Tarluyandi artist who brought in a variety of traditional Aboriginal artefacts to share with the children.

In Literacy, we continued exploring blends. This week our focus was blends that are present at the end of words. We learn’t nk, ct, mp and the sight word made‘.

In Maths, we have continued exploring all things length. The children have measured objects, compared their lengths and ordered them from shortest to longest or longest to shortest. We have also been practicing using mathematical vocabulary to describe the length of objects. This sounds like using words like; short, shorter, shortest, shorter than and long, longer, longest, longer than.

In Religion, we have been looking at how everyone is ‘made in the image of God’. The children were asked to reflect on their own family and how they are created by their parents however, are also made in the image to be like God and Jesus.

In Science, We planted ‘Snow Pea and Broad Bean Seeds’. The children had used their previously learnt knowledge of the needs of a plant, parts of a plant and how to plant a seed to support their planting.

Moon Lantern Festival

Wow! What a busy week we have had. This week along with our regular learning we celebrated book week and also attended the SEDA soccer clinics. It was lovely to see the students excitement to participate and try new things.

In Word Study, we continued exploring blends. This week we had a focus on the blends ‘dr, fl, gl and pl’. If you are looking to try something at home, the children can have a go at recording words they know with these blends and then also having a go at putting them into a sentence.

In Writers Workshop, we have been creating our very own information books. Each student chose an animal from the MUDLA and was asked to create an information book all about their chosen animal. We also visited the MUDLA to make sure our drawings and diagrams were accurate.

In Science, we learnt all about the life cycle of a plant. Next week we are going to plant our very own snow peas.

SEDA Soccer Clinic

Taking our learning outside to enjoy the sunshine and be inspired!

In Technologies, we tested if our boats were able to float whilst holding the gingerbread man safely. The children used their design skills to plan, build and then test their designs. Have a look at which boat was able to float!

Drawing the 2024 Paris Olympic Mascot

BOOK WEEK! 

Welcome to another busy week in Year 1!

Congratulations to Courtney who has read 50 nights, Shayan who has read 100 nights and Dominic who has read 125 nights

In Word Study this week, we explored consonant blends. The consonant blends we learnt this week are: ‘br, cr, dr and fr’.

In Maths, we have continued exploring equal grouping and sharing. This week we challenged ourselves by sharing larger numbers of objects between multiple numbers of groups. We also explored what to do if there are an odd number of objects.

In Science, we have been learning about the needs and wants of living things. This week we created a Venn Diagram showing what animals and plants need to survive.

Welcome back to Term 3! The children have settled back in well this week and have been very busy. Across the board we have begun many new topics and you may have even noticed we have new furniture!

Congratulations to Audrey who finished reading 75 nights over the school holidays.

Congratulations to Mohith who finished 100 nights of reading!

Congratulations to Tanmay who finished 125 nights of reading!

Early on in the week, we visited the MUDLA. The children enjoyed exploring the different animals and their habitats.

In Word Study, we explored the various letter combinations that make the Long Vowel U sound.

In Word Study, we also learnt a new sight word ‘like’. This is a common word used in students reading and writing. Have a look at the sentences we came up with using the word like.

In Maths this term, we are learning to solve problems using equal sharing and grouping. This week we learnt the meaning of the word equal, identified groups of objects that were equal or not equal and had a go at sharing jelly beans equally between our friends.

Art

In art we have been looking at primary colours and how we can use these primary colours to make new ones.

We hope you have a cool weekend and get ready for another week in 1KS and 1EJ.

Hi All,

We have had a very busy end of term in Year 1. We are so proud of the progress and achievements that each and every student has made since the beginning of the year and are looking forward to seeing the progress continue into the second semester.

Congrats to Alissa who has read 25 nights, Shayan who has read 75 nights and Harjap who has read 125 nights.

Congratulations to Zayin for reading 50 nights!

Congratulations to Marley for reading 75 nights!

Congratulations to Monairene for reading 75 nights!

Here is a little insight to what we got up to this week.

In literacy, We have been learning to recognise and write the common graphemes that can be used to represent the long /o/ sound in our writing.

We also learn’t a new sight word! This week we focused on the sight word ‘were’. We had a go at tap-spelling the word, writing it with correct spelling and wrote our own sentences.

Science

In science students have been investigating Habitats of animals especially the animals from the MUDLA.

We wish everyone a safe and happy 2 week break, and look forward to seeing you all on the 22nd of July!