Fun in Year One!

  WEEK 4      TERM 4      -      BLOG POST Our learning this Term.   Literacy This term we are talking about Persuasive Text topics. We will be learning all about the different parts of a persuasive text over the next few weeks.   Persuasive writing presents an argument or point of view. We like to debate at range of topics - ·        Title captures your reader’s interest Eg. Dogs are better than cats. ·        Begins with an opening statement presenting a general viewpoint. ·        Firstly, present “for” argument and reason. ·        Secondly, “for” argument and reason. ·        Finally, “for” argument and reason. ·        Then opposite point of view. ·        Conclusion summari...

  Term Four Super Scientist Challenge 2020   In Term Four, the Super Scientist challenge will be in the form of a research project. All students have been invited to research any scientific topic and present their information to the class in a short presentation (2 to 5 minutes) . Students are allowed to use posters, charts and ICT resources, such as MS PowerPoint to support their presentation.   The Year One class presentations will take place in Week 4 of Term 4, starting from Monday the 2 nd November. Please see the attached timetable for the presentations in Week 4.   Each Year One class will select their top two ‘Super Scientists’ and they will move forward to the Year Level Super Scientist challenge.   The Year One Super Scientist challenge will take place in Week 5.   We look forward to seeing all the wonderful presentations.   If you have any questions about the Super Scientist Challenge, please come and see us.   ...

  Week 1, Term 4 –  Blog  Post         Our Learning this Term   Literacy   This term we are learning to write Persuasive Texts. Persuasive texts present an opinion about a particular topic. We will be focusing on the language of opinion which is used to express a point of view about a topic. So far, we have discussed how people can have different thoughts, feelings and points of view about the same situation. For example, you might think that reading is the best way to spend leisure time. A friend might think that reading is not the best way to spend leisure time, because they prefer playing sports.     Numeracy   In Numeracy, we are focusing on the concepts of Money, Addition and Subtraction (with and without regrouping) and Numbers to 100. To assist your child in their learning it is helpful to involve them in every day numeracy operations. Shopping and cooking are great examples of incidental time...

  What an amazing and busy Term it has been! We have presented an assembly, celebrated Wattle Day, shared our love of reading with book week and participated in a fantastic sports carnival! Congratulations Room 28, you continue to shine as enthusiastic young learners.  Our Learning this Term   In Literacy, we have been constructing compound sentences using conjunctions. We have expanded our knowledge of punctuation and can now recognise commas, speech marks and when to use capital letters in our writing. In all our Big Write, we are focusing on writing narratives that include an orientation paragraph for the beginning that describes the characters and setting with a sizzling start, a middle which features the problem, a series of events and a solution, before concluding with an ending to remember, not just they all lived happily ever after. The End!   In Numeracy, we are focusing on reading a calendar and telling the time. We are also extending our knowledg...

 

 

  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...