The Year One students have been working hard to understand what the 4Rs looks like during transitions.  I have noticed a big improvement this week as the students transition into the classroom, between rotations and getting ready for specialist lessons.  Our class attendance for this fortnight is 95%.

We have had a busy week in Literacy.  We have learned many new digraphs and have enjoyed finding these digraphs in word sorts, stories and even Ms B’s instructions.  We practised our tricky words and learned about fiction and non fiction texts. We began analysing the language features of Informative texts.  Next week we will begin creating our own informative texts when we write about our animal facts.

In Maths we have been improving our number sense by sequencing numbers from smallest to largest, estimating amounts using mathematical language of more than or less than, and justifying why our answers are reasonable.  The students played a variety of games including friends of ten. Working in pairs, the students had 10 cubes and were tasked with hiding a number of cubes under the plate. Their partner needed to use their friends of ten facts to calculate the number of hidden cubes.  Next week we will be learning to skip count in 2s, 5s and 10s. Students will investigate the number before and the number after and will progress to solving simple addition and subtraction problems.

Home Learning:

• Reading to others
• Tricky words
• Spelling words