Fun in Year One!

 

 

  The term is flying by and it is Week 5 already! The students have settled nicely into routines and are creating some amazing work. Literacy In Literacy, we are writing narratives. You will noticed that Talk Homework will be appearing on the class blog every Tuesday. We have our Big Write lesson on a Wednesday, so it is important that you talk about the homework with your child Tuesday night. Students have been learning how to begin a narrative by creating an orientation (setting):  Who  is in the story? When  and  where  does the story happen? Students are encouraged to use adjectives to describe the characters and places to make their story as interesting to read as possible. We call these our WOW words. This week we are discussing how to create the middle of a story. We are starting with -   What  is the problem?   The  series of events  that happen to solve the problem. The remainder of the term we...