Achievements

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Celebrating Our Achievements

Conclusion of UOI

This week the Year 1 students hosted an Assembly, to celebrate their achievements, which have been many this term indeed!. The children demonstrated what they had learned by teaching the other students how to make various Chinese New Year decorations.  They also made 'Empire Biscuits', for the rest of the students, as part of our celebration.

Great job boys!



Assembly


To say I was proud of how the Year 1 students performed at the assembly is an understatement!
They put on a stellar performance! Not only did they teach the other students how to make things such as, Chinese lanterns and a Chinese handprint dragon but they sang and danced wonderfully at the conclusion of the assembly. Well done Year 1, you were amazing!






Maths

As well as practising writing their numerals and number words, the children played matching games for both multiplication and addition.   

Trevi found the answer to his sum.

Torch plays a matching game for multiplication sums.

The children working on matching, numerals to number words and diagrams.

The boys are working on challenge cards, which  have a variety of challenges, such as ; complete the number  sequence,  word problems etc.

Luffy practises writing his numerals and number words.
Great job Luffy


Literacy
In literacy this week we did a number of activities based on our reading of  'Fancy Nancy and the Delectable Cupcakes' including; comprehension exercises, a sequence exercise,  finding synonyms as well as making our own paper cupcakes.


Natasha and Luffy did an amazing job 


Thun Thun and Junior did a superb job at answering the questions about the story.



Jewoo and Tone's cupcakes look good enough to eat.


Next Week

Literacy

The children will continue with their Guided Reading, focusing on developing comprehension skills and sequencing events.

Maths


Year 1 students will continue to practise counting in 2's, 5's and 10's.  They will also present and interpret data in block diagrams using practical equipment.

UOI

Next week we will begin a new Unit of Inquiry, 'All living things go through a process of change'. A discussion with your child about how they have changed over the years would be beneficial, particularly if accompanied by photos.

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