Y1 (2019/2020)

Merry Christmas Where does the time go?  Hard to believe that this is the last day of Term 1.  After all their hard work the children are definitely entitled to a well earned break. The Christmas Show This week the children have been very busy rehearsing for their Christmas show.  Their item is entitled 'Wombat Divine'.  It is basically the Nativity story, however the characters are all Australian animals. What a stellar performance the children gave on the night! A different pose from the usual, 'sitting on Santa's lap'. Great picture Luffy! UOI The children continued with their work on Celebrations.  They all agreed that decorations were an important part of  many celebrations.  Consequently they decided to make their own decorations for the classroom. Torch makes a quite complicated chain Christmas  tree. Thun Thun coloured a Christmas tree, with tricky words. Luffy made a very attractive snowma...

UOI Our current Unit of Inquiry is 'Celebrations'.  What perfect timing for such a unit with Christmas looming followed by 'Chinese New Year'.  At the moment the children are busy making decorations for their classroom and I must say they are doing a great job. Literacy Part of our literacy work this week involved reading Christmas stories, such as 'The Elves Countdown to Christmas' and 'Wombat Divine.  The children then had to tell their partner who the main characters were in the story and also the sequence of evens. Euro busy labelling the different parts of the snowman. The boys read the Christmas story and then answered questions about it. Lunar obviously pleased with herself at finding the right label. Well done Lunar. Maths This week in maths we did revision on 2D shapes by choosing different 2D shapes to make snowmen.  The children then wrote about the shapes they had used.