What’s Happening in Grade 1 in Term 2 2024

In Literacy students will be:

• identifying nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs and using them accurately when forming sentences.
• learning to use boundary punction correctly when forming sentences.
• developing questions using who, what, where and when.
• using conjunctions such as before, after, if and when accurately.
• identifying fragments and converting them into complete 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.
• understanding the structure of an information text.
• developing simple information texts about a chosen topic.

In Mathematics students will be:

• recognising and representing o’clock and half past times on an analogue clock.
• 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 and shape patterns.
• comparing numbers up to 100.
• using number lines to count on and back.
• posing questions, collecting data and creating picture graphs.
• measuring and comparing the length of objects using informal units.

In Inquiry students will be:

Further developing their knowledge of the following units through a play-based approach, investigations and crafts”

• Mesopotamia
• Countries, Continents and Maps
• Early Civilisations of Australia
• Early Explorers and Settlers in Australia.

Wellbeing

We will be using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on positive coping, gender identity and positive gender relations.

Students will engage in lessons looking at:

• Practicing techniques to deal with negative feelings such as fear and anger.
• Reflecting on their identity such as likes, dislikes and strengths.
• Identifying respectful gender friendly behaviours.

We will continue use the Smiling Mind program to promote mindfulness and wellbeing in the classroom setting.

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

Home Learning

In addition to supporting your child to complete the Expected Home Learning tasks each week, you may also like to encourage your child to select one or more of the following tasks:

• Read their Little Learners Love Literacy book daily.
• Read aloud to assist them with fluency and expression.
• Respond to questions about what they are reading to ensure comprehension of the text.
• Play a variety of board or card games (e.g. snakes and ladders) which involves subitising on a die, adding or subtracting.
• Practise Number Knowledge facts up to 10 focussing on before and after numbers, combinations and how many more to 10.