Grade 1 

Welcome to Term 2 2022

Grade One Teachers for 2022 are:
1C - Paris Craig​ & Sheridan Patton
​1OD - Karlee O'Donnell 
1P/K - Karen Plain & Hayley Kellow 
​​1G/N - Mandy Gladman & Zoe Needham 

Mothers Day Morning
Thanks to all the Mums, Nans, Dads and special friends that came into our classrooms for our Mother's Day morning. 

Reading

Along with student independent reading goals that will be stapled into student diaries, we will be focussing on the following reading strategies in Term 2:
  • Skippy the Frog
  • Stretchy Snake
  • Scoop the Pelican
  • Chunky Monkey
  • Flippy Dolphin
  • Digger the Dog
  • Fix Up Bear
  • Skippy Frog
  • Auto the Octopus
  • Questioning Owl
  • ​Jabber the Reteller

The ARROW Program will be running 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?

Topic Studies

This term 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?

Spelling

Children will be asked to be spelling detectives this term and search for words in their readers or home library books that have the 'sound of the week' in them. They will be recorded in their Spelling Detectives Homework book.

Share Time 

Writing

In Writing we will be teaching the students to write on dotted thirds. Any practise with writing on dotted thirds focussing on correct letter formation would be great. The more work on lowercase letters the better.
We will focus on poetry and narrative writing throughout the term.

Numeracy 

We will be learning about: 
  • 2D and 3D shapes
  • Telling the time to the half hour
  • Location - giving and following directions
  • Addition and subtraction strategies
Numeracy at home:
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 

Communication

Class Dojo​ continues to be one of our major communication methods  between Teachers and parent/carers. Please check your child’s Class Dojo page regularly for any updates. Other updates can be found in our weekly school newsletter, specifically in our Junior Jargon section. 
 Share time is the chance for students to show or tell about special topics.