Category: Year 1 Blue

What’s Happening in Year One in Term 2?

April 24, 2015
Tanya De Gooijer
· Year 1 Blue · Year 1 Gold

Welcome back everyone! It is fantastic to see the Year One’s all ready to go! We are very excited to share with you all of the interesting and wonderful things we will be learning about this term.

We thank you for all your support as we continue on your child’s learning journey.

Term Two will offer the students a chance to learn more about the environment around them through our Guided Inquiry– ‘Sustainability- Tip Toe through our World’.

In this unit the students will learn how they are personally responsible for helping to keep our world a place that is safe and beautiful for them to grow up in.

In Religion we will begin by exploring the unit ‘Loving Others’. This unit introduces the students to the many ways they use their bodies. We will wonder at what our bodies can do, and wonder about God, who created the human body. The next unit ‘We Make Choices’ explores the choices we make as people and also explores ways in which Jesus made choices. Our last unit ‘Friends Together’, focuses on the experiences people have of friends, including loving friends and making new friends. This leads the students to wonder about God and encourages us to think about showing love and kindness to our friends.

We will be reading some well known Fairytales as a part of our Literacy program. These stories will help us to explore plot, setting and characters. We will continue introducing new sight words and spelling sounds each week, working in our literacy centers, writing on smaller lines while trying hard to remember spaces between words and forming our letters the correct way!

Our Mathematics program introduces the children to new concepts as well as continuously revisiting previous learning through games and group activities. The children will investigate 2D and 3D shapes, chance and data and skip counting in 10’s and 5’s as well as revisiting addition, tens and ones (place value) and numbers to 100. Busy little Mathematicians!!

Our reading roster for this term is up and running as of week 2. If you can spare a few minutes one morning to listen to the children read please sign up! Thanks to those parents who have done this already!

Our library day continues to be on Thursday for both Year One classes. If your child does not return their book each week they will sadly be unable to borrow a book. Your child also requires a library bag in order to borrow and please make sure each book brought home is lovingly cared for – no spillages, broken spines, torn or scribbled over pages please!

We are looking forward to another great term! It’s shaping up to be a really great one!

Palm Sunday Invitation

March 27, 2015
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We encourage all St Emilie’s children and their families to join the St Emilie’s Parish Community for

9am mass – this Sunday – Palm Sunday.

The Parish Liturgy Committee would like the children to line the pathway from the school to the church waving palms (provided) as Father recreates Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem.

This will be a very special experience and will be one the children will remember well into the future.

Working with Numbers!

March 12, 2015
Tanya De Gooijer
· Year 1 Blue

We have been busy in Year One Blue learning so many new things!

We have revisited numbers to 20 and are diving into the next challenge….

all the numbers that come after 20!!

We love working cooperatively with each other and find that working in small groups is a great way to help each other to learn!

We have been looking at numbers to 100! We worked in groups to put our number chart back together!

We play a game called 'Number Glasses' to see who can make the biggest number!

We played a game called ‘Number Glasses’ to see who could make the biggest number!

We have been learning about the language to describe numbers – biggest, smallest, what comes before, what comes after and are now getting a little bit tricky with our number thinking by using ‘tens’ and ‘ones’ to represent the value of numbers.

We are making numbers using ‘tens’ and ‘ones’! It’s a bit tricky so we have to look carefully at the position of the numbers!

We have even started counting by 10’s!

We read the story Tip Tap went the Crab and noticed that crabs have 10 legs!

We soon discovered that counting to 100 by 10’s is a lot quicker than counting each number! We made our own crab using our handprints and have been using our crabs to help us count in 10’s!

We made our own handprint crabs and even cut them out!

We are using our finished crabs to help us count in 10’s!

We are on our way to becoming number experts!

Year One Purposeful Practice Weeks 4 and 5

February 21, 2015
Tanya De Gooijer
· Year 1 Blue · Year 1 Gold

Dear Parents

Our Purposeful Practice homework grid for weeks 4 and 5 is ready to go!
Please click on the link below to see the allocated tasks for next two weeks. A hard copy will be sent home also.
Homework grids are due back to the class teacher on Friday 6 March.

Year 1 Purposeful Practice Parent Letter

Year 1 Purposeful Practice Week 4-5

This week sees the children bring home a reading book and sight words to practice each night as a part of their purposeful practice. The children are a little excited and can’t wait to get their hands on their first book!

Further instructions on how to fill in your children’s reading log can be found on the following link.

Yr 1 Reading Books and Sight Words Parent Letter

Have fun reading together!

Celebrating our Differences

February 11, 2015
Tanya De Gooijer
· Year 1 Blue

We have had a wonderful start to Year One – learning new things and getting to know each other!

It’s really great to be back at school and we welcome Ethan, Linisha and Joshua to our class!

We have started the term by reinforcing how special and unique we are in so many ways!

One of the learning experiences we have been involved in was reading the story ‘It’s Okay to be Different’ and creating a bright paper artwork of our face, similar to the illustrations in the story.

We created ourselves!

We impressed each other with our amazing cutting skills!

We impressed each other with our great cutting skills!

We had fun using our imaginations and our favourite colours!

We also improvised on the text and came up with our own ideas…

It’s okay to be a Construction Worker!
Jason

It’s okay to have new teeth growing!
Ruby

It’s okay to have different friends!
Roman

It’s okay to make mistakes!
Linisha

It’s okay to get married!
Thea

Our Guided Inquiry investigation sees us explore the concept of ‘Identity’ and what it means to be the best person we can be.

We created our own identity collages using a range of beautiful materials. We loved being so creative!

Ethan’s fabulous collage creation!

Reece used many different materials to create herself!

Love your hair Thea!

We had a discussion and shared some ideas to the question –

How can we best the best person we can be?

Get plenty of sleep.
Reece

Keep our muscles working in our hands.
Thomas

Be a kind person.
Amber

Help others when they’re hurt.
Eimear

Eat!
Sajith

Just be you!
Holly

Bye for now!

Year One – Photos Needed!

February 8, 2015
Tanya De Gooijer
· Year 1 Blue · Year 1 Gold

Our Guided Inquiry topic this term sees us investigate the concept of ‘Identity’ through our unit titled ‘Growing Older and Wiser’. Through planned learning experiences the children will investigate how we grow, change and learn over time and how we can help ourselves be the best we can be!

To help facilitate some of our understandings we are asking parents to provide photos of different stages of their child’s life to create an Individual Identity Timeline.

Please click on the below link for further information.

We would love to have all photos in by the end of Week 3 – Friday 13th February!

Thank you!

Year One Identity Timeline

Learning is Fun in Year 1B!

November 27, 2014
Tanya De Gooijer
· Year 1 Blue

Even though we are coming to the end of a busy term we are still trying to pack in as much learning as we can! We are having a great time learning our dance moves for our Edudance and Christmas Concert and can’t wait to show off how coordinated we are becoming!

In Mathematics we have finished off our investigations into measurement by celebrating with a fun activity. We measured a few of our favourite characters using fluffy marshmallows!

We had a fantastic time measuring with marshmallows! They are a perfect size for measuring…and they smelt delicious!

We made sure to lay the marshmallows carefully in a straight line. This made it easier for us to count them!

We have discovered that marshmallows are not only fantastic in hot chocolate but are also brilliant for measuring too because they are a perfect uniform size! We were a little overcome by the sweet smell of the marshmallows but we concentrated hard for accurate measurements!

The mathematics fun has continued with this week’s investigations into 3D shapes. We have found quite a few 3D shapes within our classroom and had even more fun creating our own using pipe cleaners! We have learnt these new words when describing 3D shapes – cube, cone, rectangular prism, cylinder and a pyramid. Have a look around your house too! We bet you can spot heaps of 3D shapes!

We made these great 3D shapes – a pyramid and a cylinder. It was a little tricky for us to envision what we were creating…but we did it!

The fun continues in out literacy centres! We have been practising our individual spelling sounds using hands on materials. We used Lego bricks and pressed them into play dough to make words to match our sound! We also used small coloured beads and used these to spell words too! This activity was great for our little muscles in our hands!

We used Lego to help us with our spelling sounds! Can you see the words toy and hint?

These ‘all’ words were created with small beads!

Each week we have an activity to help us with our sight words. We especially enjoy playing Sight Words Twister! Sometimes we end up in a bit of a tangle!

We love playing Sight Words Twister! Our new favourite catch cry is “let’s get twisted!”

In Religious Education we have celebrated our final activity for the unit of work titled Just Imagine. We have looked at a few different illustrations of Jesus and have discovered that these illustrators have had to use their imaginations to create their illustrations. We used fine black pens to create our own portraits of Jesus using our imagination and sharing our ideas during a writing task. We are looking forward to learning about Advent and the ways in which we prepare for the birth of Jesus.

We used our imaginations to create a portrait of what we thought Jesus might have looked like.

Some of our finished Jesus portraits.

Just Imagine!

November 12, 2014
Tanya De Gooijer
· Year 1 Blue

We are always so busy learning new and exciting things in Year One! This week we have dived head first into our Religious Education unit of work titled Just Imagine.

We explored some of the ways we like to use our imaginations and came up with a few funny ideas for the sentence starter
‘Imagine if…’

Imagine if the world was made of chocolate and everything grew back as chocolate and we could keep eating it.
Billy

Imagine if the rain was green.
William

Imagine if every animal was a different colour.
Ava

Imagine if instead of drink fountains we had chocolate fountains.
Maureen

Imagine if everyone was nice and kind and loved each other.
Brodie

We used our imaginations to wonder about God and His imagination. He created so many wonderful things in our world. We wondered which animal, plant or insect He enjoyed using His imagination to create. Cute puppies and fierce lions featured high on our list!

Imagine if God created tigers to be cute and cuddly!

God used His imagination to create beautiful birds!

We know that Jesus was just like us in many ways and that He had an imagination too. Jesus used His imagination to tell stories about God. We listened to the story Jesus and the Lost Sheep and learnt that Jesus used this story to tell people that God loves them like a shepherd loves his sheep.
God loves every single person in a special way.

We used our imaginations to create illustrations to match the story!

Using our imaginations to create the lost sheep!

Jesus used His imagination to tell stories about God’s love.

God loves every person in a special way.

If everyone lived like Jesus and used their imagination to work out ways of showing love, there would be more happiness everywhere.
How have you used your imagination to show love?

Out and About!

October 30, 2014
Tanya De Gooijer
· Year 1 Blue

We have had a busy start to the term! Last week we were lucky enough to visit Woolworths and the Gosnells Railroad Markets as part of Inquiry Unit titled “Necessity – Raw to Ready”. We enjoyed visiting each destination but we secretly loved the bus ride!

At Woolworths we were each given an item to locate in the store. We had to pick the one that appealed to us the most and then we found the cheapest one to compare. We discovered that the colourful packaging along with interesting pictures attracted our attention the most…this certainly effects what mum and dad put in the trolley each week!

When we arrived at the Gosnells Railroad Markets we found so many examples of needs, wants and items that were raw and ready for us to buy! We discovered that most of the raw items were found in the same area such as fruit, vegetables, a butcher and a fish shop…that was a little smelly! Some of us even found the massage chair…what a luxury to have one of these…definitely a want!

We spotted the raw seafood! It did smell a little fishy!

So many fresh and healthy choices at the markets!

We found an interesting poster showing some of the fish found in Australian waters.

This week we have begun our investigations into measuring! We have been measuring different items in our classroom using different materials. We even measured the length of each other! We have discussed the different types of measuring from the size of our clothing, to the length of shoes to how heavy we might be.

Measuring with informal units.

During our activities we discovered some important things to remember when measuring length…our measuring items must be touching, they should be the same size and using very smaller items to measure takes up a lot of time!

Measuring the length of our bodies!

We discovered that measuring with small objects takes a long time!

We have been measuring with different items in our class from pompoms and matchsticks to playing cards and buttons. These types of objects are known as informal units.

We are having a lot of fun!

Money, Money, Money!

October 17, 2014
Tanya De Gooijer
· Year 1 Blue

One of our Mathematic topics this term is investigating Australian money. We have been learning about dollars and cents and how we can tell each coin and note apart. We have learnt that our money has lots of famous Australian people and animals on it! Our goal is to be able to place all the coins and notes in order according to their value and to use coins to show the price of items.

This terms inquiry unit is titled ‘Necessity – Raw to Ready’. We have begun our investigations into this topic by discussing needs and wants under the headings of food, shelter and clothing. We have realised that some of the things we enjoy eating, playing with and wearing aren’t really affecting our survival. Unfortunately some of the things we want are things we don’t always need!

To link our learning to real life we have created a class market. We voted on the name of the market and decided on ‘Year One Blue Fresh Food Market’. We worked in pairs to create posters advertising what we have on offer!

We are having a fabulous time shopping and are putting our knowledge of money to good use!