Year 1 has thoroughly enjoyed celebrating Catholic Education Week and Naidoc week.  We discussed what it means to be part of the Catholic community and identified the many reasons we are grateful for God making each of us special.  This week we explored the Naidoc theme of Voice, Treaty, Truth by singing songs, talking about social and cultural norms and making damper.  We also celebrated the feast day of St Mary McKillop and discussed our school's focus on never seeing a need without doing something about it.  It is a pleasure to witness the students so easily recognising and sharing how they can spread kindness at school.

In English, we have continued using our story plans to create Finding Tales.  We have been learning to include "When" words in our writing to make it more interesting for our readers.  Yesterday I ...  Tomorrow I will...  We edited our writing with a focus on checking our split digraphs.  Next week we will be learning the grammar rules for doubling f, l and s.  

In Maths, we have been learning about 3D shapes and we can sort shaped based on their features (number of sides, number of corners).  Next week, we will be consolidating our knowledge of place value and exploring hundred, tens and ones.  We will expand numbers, trade numbers, represent our numbers if many ways.