Grade 1 

Teachers

Games Night 2021 Photos
Grade One Teachers for 2021 are:
1C - Paris Craig 
​1OD - Karlee O'Donnell 
1P - Brett Pattison 
​1G/N - Mandy Gladman & Zoe Needham 
Term 1  overview

Reading

Along with student independent reading goals that will be stapled into student diaries, we will be focusing on the following  reading strategies in Grade 1:
  • Eagle Eye
  • Lips the Fish
  • Auto Octopus
  • Stretchy Snake
  • Chunky Monkey
  • Fix Up Bear
  • Flippy Dolphin
  • Skippy Frog
  • Questioning Owl
  • Jabber the Re teller

The ARROW Program will be run by Mrs Young,  three days a week offering further support to our reading program. 

Daily Home reading

Students are required to read 5 times a week at home and parents need to sign their yellow reader diaries each night. To support you child's reading goal you can ask them questions about their book - who, what, when, where, why, and how?

Writing

​In Writing we will be teaching the students to write on dotted thirds. Any practise with writing on dotted thirds focusing on correct letter formation would be great. The more work on lowercase letters the better

Mathematics

We will be learning about:
  • Counting and patterns
  • Place value
  • Length
  • Collecting data to place into graphs.
  • Money

At home:
Continue to work on number facts to 10.
Identify number patterns in everyday life e.g. counting different objects by 2s, 5s & 10s.
If you are shopping talking about money. Recognising the value of coins and notes especially the difference between dollars and cents.
Any measuring activities that are happening e.g. when at the sandpit, how many spoons to fill a cup or how many cups to fill the bucket?
Estimating- counting and length.

Some awesome sites that provide interactive learning games that children can use to practise their basic number facts are:
Smash Maths -  https://www.smashmaths.com.au/  
abcya -  https://www.abcya.com/grades/1 
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These counting links are also great to listen to and sing along with
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​Counting by 2s Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCxvNtrcDIs
Counting by 5s Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amxVL9KUmq8
Counting by 10s Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftati8iGQcs&list=PLM95cb_Szq3am4n6jJw127QbBlDivZgIc
Counting Backwards from 100 by 1s Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jMmZaFvRpE

Topic Studies

We will be looking at students' values. We will be looking at the following:
  • What are values?
  • What makes our classroom a happy and safe place?
  • What do the values we use look like, sound like & feel like?
  • Random acts of kindness.
  • How we treat others? How our actions affect others?
  • How do we create the perfect classroom?

Share Time 

 Share time is the chance for students to show or tell about special topics. The share items list will be out this week. Please see individual teachers for your class's share day.
News/Share Topics - Term 1

Spelling - 

Students are able to log onto Sound Waves http://www.soundwaveskids.com.au/ with the password mess585 and practise their weekly lists.
​Spelling booklets for Group A, B & C students are attached below. These booklets include additional spelling activities that students might like to do when practising their weekly spelling words . 

Dash into Robotics Incursion 

This morning our class went to the gym for a robot incursion. I had so much fun. We used some ipads to control the robots. Torah L

On Monday we got to play with robots. I got to play with Whale, he was funny. We were in the gym. Sullivan B

All of the robots were named after sea animals. I was buddied up with Max. I liked it when we got to control the robots. Ned D

Yesterday we had a great day because we got to play with robots. We could control them. It was so fun! We could control them with a keyboard. I loved it so much.  Ella S

Yesterday we controlled robots. We had fun. We had a course and iPads. The robots looked at us. Hayley S