Please see a ‘Good Morning’ message from Miss Dowsett!
Please see a ‘Good morning’ message from Miss Jessop!
Things to remember
1) All of the activities may be completed in any order and whenever is convenient for you and your child.We encourage you to provide fitness breaks, walks and free play opportunities in between learning! We will also have suggested brain breaks for you to choose from if you wish!
2) Please remember that during this time, your engagement in learning is wonderful to see but your wellbeing is our priority. Take care of yourselves and your family!
Morning Routine
Join Miss Jessop as we go through the date and our class calendar today!
Fruit Break
Fun Fact: Miss Jessop grew up watching the wiggles and this was one of her favourite songs! Maybe you can listen to it whilst you enjoy your fruit this morning!
Mindfulness
Join Miss Dowsett as we practise being present, centred and grounded on this lovely Monday together!
See below for a photo of Miss Dowsett’s mindfulness activity.
RECESS BREAK
Please spend some time away from your school work now! Eat some food and spend some time playing! See photo’s below of how Miss Jessop and Miss Dowsett will spend their recess break!
Miss Jessop’s dog – Archie!
Miss Jessop’s dog – Jax
Miss Dowsett will be spending some time outside with Cody!
Shared Reading:
Join Miss Jessop for a shared reading of Millie-Mae in WinterBy. Natalie Marshall.
Sound of the week:
Brain Break:
Health:
Join Miss Dowsett as she goes through our Health lesson for today!
LUNCH BREAK
Time for lunch! Eat some food and have a play! Also enjoy a song break!
Religion:
Join Miss Jessop as she explains our Religion lesson for today!
And now Miss Jessop will explain our religion task to us.
Investigations:
Spend the rest of your afternoon engaging in some play based learning investigations! You can use your imagination for this, just like you do when you’re at school!
Goodbye!
Goodbye from Miss Dowsett!
Goodbye from Miss Jessop!
Don’t forget that you are welcome to share any learning that you get up to at home via reply on the blog or by emailing your class teacher.
Good morning year 1s and welcome to another wonderful day of online learning! We hope that yesterday went well and that you are all continuing to stay safe, healthy and happy during this time.
Please note that during the late morning/early afternoon, Miss Jessop and myself will be contacting you to check-in and see how you are going. This will take place via a phone call with your parents.
We have been working together as a year 1 team to put together the learning for you to complete at home. We are also practicing enjoying the little things in life and had a laugh together on the phone, changing our faces with different filters to be a little bit silly!
Please remember that during this time, your engagement in learning is wonderful to see but your wellbeing is our priority. Please see below the suggested learning tasks for today. Please take your time completing these and do your best with the resources you have available at home.
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Literacy
Reading
Please spend 5-10 minutes reading one of your levelled reader books if you have them with you. Otherwise, please enjoy the following audiobook below:
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Writer’s Workshop
For Writer’s Workshop we are continuing to discuss how students can be effective readers to an audience. If possible, we ask that you spend some time with your child and discuss what effective reading sounds like. You may like to focus on the tone and pitch of voice, different voices for different characters, and using noises for extra effect.
Show them the video below, which outlines Michael Rosen’s top tips for performing poems and stories. Ask them to name and notice the strategies the author uses to perform his books.
Then show them the video below, asking them to name and notice any of the tips used Michael Rosen. Do you think she uses an ‘expert’ tone or ‘story’ tone?
Following your discussion about effective reading strategies, students are able to continue working on a book of their choice, or start a new one. Remind students that authors use words and pictures in their writing to make their book interesting. Likewise, we are all brave spellers who always stretch our sounds out and try our best!
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Fitness Break
Keeping active is one of the best ways we can take care of ourselves! If possible, you might like to go outside and play, visit the PE Blog for activities, or follow the yoga video below.
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Science
In Science this term, we have started learning about how materials can be physically changed. We have discussed how we can change a material by scrunching, squishing, stretching, pulling, twisting, knotting, folding, and bending.
Today, we are focusing on the ability to bend a material. Ask your child to stand and move parts of their body to demonstrate bending:
What can you bend on your body?
Can you bend it back again?
Why do think we are able to bend our knees and elbows?
What words describe ‘bending’?
What objects or materials can be bent? (Look around the house and see if you can find any).
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Task instructions:
In your learning journal, write and draw as many objects or materials you can think of that can be bent without breaking or changing the original shape. You might want to think back to our lesson on Monday, where we looked at bending a plastic spoon, a piece of paper and a string to help you with your brainstorming.
Your title for this page is:
Bend it! 22/07/21
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Brain Break
It’s time to get up and get your groove on! Please dance along to the following video for our brain break!
In Health this term, we are learning about the importance of keeping safe by recognising the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touch. To begin, we ask that you spend some time with your child to discuss the importance of personal space; what it is, why it is important, and why we must respect everyone’s personal space.
Following this discussion, please view the video below and ask your child how someone might know that there is someone else in their personal space. They might discuss feeling uncomfortable, crowded or touched. What might they do if they felt someone was in their personal space?
Task instructions:
In your learning journal, create a detailed drawing of someone inside someone else’s personal space. Around your picture, list your responses to the questions asked by your parent:
How might someone know that there is someone else in their personal space?
What might someone do if they felt a person was in their personal space?
Your title for this page is:
Personal space 22/07/21
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Physical Education
Please visit the PE Blog to see today’s Sport lesson, which focuses on throwing and target games. If you don’t have sporting equipment, be creative! You can always use rolled up socks for a ball and a washing basket for a target.
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Don’t forget that you are welcome to share any learning that you get up to at home via reply on the blog or by emailing your class teacher.
Congratulations to Ashely for reading for 75 nights and Eleazar for reading for 100 nights. This is a fantastic achievement, keep up the wonderful work!
Congratulations to Hannah for reading for 50 nights, Eleazar for reading for 75 nights and Oliver for reading for 125 nights. These are wonderful achievements that you should each be very proud of! Well done and keep up the amazing work!
On Friday, 1SD visited our 5/6EM for a buddy reading session. The students worked marvellously with their older buddies and read for the whole visit. It was wonderful to see both year levels sharing the reading role and practicing their fluency, comprehension and decoding skills. Below are some images of our wonderful reading.
Congratulations to Vedika and Armin for reaching 50 nights of reading and to Will for reaching 75 nights! It is a pleasure to see how dedicated you are to your reading. I look forward to seeing who will reach a reading goal next!
This week in Writer’s Workshop we have begun our new unit which explores ‘how to’ texts. The students have enjoyed comparing the similarities and differences between their storybooks (narratives) and various ‘how to’ texts.
Pictured below are images from our introductory lesson on Monday, where students were immersed in the world of ‘how to’ texts by exploring, noticing and naming various textual structures and features.
This Friday, the 21/05/2021, students are able to wear casual clothes if they bring in a can of non-perishable goods. This could include, but is not limited too, cans of soup, vegetables, spaghetti, baked beans, or any other non-perishable goods.
These will be donated to Fred’s Van, a part of the St Vincent de Paul Society, which provides comfort and a warm, nutritious meal for those in need.
Please feel free to bring these in any time throughout the week, Miss Jessop and myself will ensure to track who has brought a can in and is able to wear causal clothes on Friday.
