What’s Happening in Grade 1 in Term 1 2024

In Literacy students will be:

• listening to fables and discussing the characters, plot, setting and moral.
• identifying nouns and verbs and using them accurately when forming sentences.
• learning to use boundary punction correctly when forming sentences.
• participating in daily formal handwriting sessions learning how to form letters correctly and how to correctly hold a pencil.
• engaging in daily activities that involve manipulating sounds and forming words.
• learning to use their letter sound knowledge to blend the sounds together to read words and sentences.
• building fluency by reading decodable passages connected to the sounds we have learnt.
• developing their abilities to comprehend different types of Fiction and Non-Fiction texts.

In Mathematics students will be:

• recognising and representing o’clock and half past times on an analogue clock.
• measuring and comparing the mass of objects using informal units.
• practising automatic recall of Number Knowledge up to 10. (combinations, numbers before and after and how many more to 10)
• representing numbers using base ten blocks.
• adding and subtracting numbers up to 20 using a variety of strategies.
• recognising, ordering, and representing numbers to 100.
• counting forwards and backwards by 1’s and skip counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s starting at 0.
• recognising and continuing number patterns.
• recognising simple 2D and 3D shapes and how these are represented in our world.

In Inquiry students will be:

• further developing their knowledge of Fables and stories through a play-based approach
• further developing their knowledge of Mesopotamia through a play-based approach
• identifying what personal information is and understanding the importance of keeping this information private online.
• developing an understanding of the purpose of the internet and other information and communications-based technologies.

Wellbeing

We will be using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on emotional literacy.

Students will engage in lessons looking at:

• recognising and identifying their own emotions.
• responding appropriately to the emotions of others.
• using smiling minds as a tool to support students in understanding and connecting with their emotions.
• regulating their emotional responses when expressing opinions, values, and choices.

There will be a continued focus on our SWPBS Expectations as outlined in our whole school matrix.