What has been happening in Room 24?

Introduction 

The Year One children have had a wonderful start to the school year. They have settled into the class routines and enjoyed visiting the specialist classes.

 

In our classroom, the children are learning how to work together in groups. Each week, they participate in a team building activity. An example of this is the ‘Find Someone Who’ activity which parents participated in at the parent information Session.

 

We have five home teams. Each team has four or five members that work together as shoulder partners or face partners.

 

  

 

Parent Information Session 

Thank you to all the parents for attending the Parent Information Evening. I hope you gained a better understanding of our routines, classroom management, my expectations and school policies. 

 

Term One Learning Outcomes  

In the classroom, the children are learning to: 

English

• Identify constant digraphs, which are two letters coming together to make one sound.
• Identify nouns, pronouns.
• Use full stops, capital letters and question marks appropriately.
• Recognise words beginning with sh, ch, th and wh.
• Understand the meaning of words in sentences.
• Write letters with the correct formation and size.

Mathematics

• Accurately use the five counting principles.
• Read, write and order numbers to 100.
• Subitise collections up to 15.
• Orally count starting from 0 by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s to 100.
• Read the word numerals for 1 to 20.
• Read and understand basic facts to 20 (addition and subtraction).
• Represent and solve simple addition and subtraction problems to 30 using concrete materials, illustrations, counting on and counting back, partitioning and rearranging parts.

History

• Identify the differences in family structures and roles, and how these have changed or remained the same over time.

Science

• Predict and compare how the shapes of objects made from different materials can be physically changed through actions such as bending, stretching and twisting.
• Describe how different materials change when warmed or cooled.

Health

• Hold an adult’s hand when walking near traffic and while crossing the road.
• Identify the steps for crossing the road 1.  STOP at least one step back from the kerb  or edge of the road. 2. LOOK in all directions for approaching traffic  (left, right, front and back). 3. LISTEN in all directions for sounds of  approaching traffic. 4. THINK before deciding if it is safe to cross.
• Recognise safe places to cross the road (straight stretches of road, away from corners and roundabouts, not on a hill, and at a crosswalk or traffic signals with pedestrian lights).

Technology

• Identify the different components of computers/ laptops and their uses.
• Identify how to turn on the computer/ laptop and log in.
• Recognise software such as Microsoft Office and internet explorer.

Word processing skills:

• Use shift key to capitalise
• Use shift key to insert symbols
• Change font colour
• Make text bold
• Underline text
• Insert clip art
   

Great Resources

To support the children in counting, I have been incorporating some entertaining songs into our daily Mathematics Warm Ups. The songs focus on counting from 1 to 100, counting by 2s, counting by 5s and counting by 10s. I have saved the songs into the Resources Section of our blog. At home, I encourage you to provide opportunities for your child to orally count from 0 by 2s, 5s and 10s to 100.

 

Special Events

 Student Councillors

Congratulations to Jai and Winter for being voted by their peers as the Student Councillors for Room 24.

 

Merit Certificates

 Congratulations to Alessandra and Kayden for receiving their well- deserved Merit Certificates. Keep up the outstanding effort. 

 

Australian Day

On the 14th February, the children participated in a 'Australian Day' celebration. The children looked stunning in their costumes. Thank you for your time and effort in helping your child with heir costumes, and for your donations.

  

Science Investigation

In Science, we are learning about materials. In week six (9^th March), the children are encouraged to bring an object to school and discuss its properties. It can be anything (as long as it can fit into their school bag).  

 

Thank you

 Thank you very much for your wonderful support over the last few weeks. If you have any questions or would like to chat, please come and see me. 

 

Kind regards,

 Corinna Thomas

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Welcome to Room 24 Year 1's Blog.  We hope you will come and have a look at all the wonderful things we are doing in our class during the year.