Fuzzles were a winner in Year 1 this week!  We used our story graph to write a sizzling start, middle and ending to a story about fuzzles.  We incorporated tricky words and practised our doubling rules. Ask the students to tell you how Zack and Floss can help you with your spelling!  Next week we'll be learning how to make adjectives (describe nouns) and adverbs (describe verbs) by adding the suffix “y” (happy, dirty) and “ly” (quickly, lazily).

In Maths we consolidated our knowledge of place value by partitioning numbers, regrouping tens and ones, and solving simple addition and subtraction stories.  We demonstrated our knowledge by choosing three 2 digit numbers. In a book, we demonstrated that we can write our numbers in digits and in words, we can draw a picture of our numbers, we can sequence our numbers from smallest to largest, and we can plot our numbers on a number line.  Next week we will be exploring growth patterns and how we can use these to form algorithms.

In Science we made food chains to model the changes of our objects during our experiments.  For example, our corn kernels were small and hard, we applied heat, they became popcorn which was white and fluffy, they cannot be changed back to their original state.  Our icy pole was cold and hard, we applied heat and it melted, it was sticky and runny, it can be changed back to its original state by placing it in the freezer.

This week we say goodbye and goodluck to Genevieve Shelton.  We wish her and her family the best of luck for their next adventure in Brisbane.  We have a special surprise planned for her on Thursday.