Year One have had a smashing week!  We learned that nouns are the names of people, please and things.  We love singing our, “Look, look look around” song, ask me to sing it to you!  We learned that compound words are words made up of two smaller words. I love thinking of my own compound words - test me!  Next week we will be learning that English words don’t end in “i”. When I here the “a” sound in a word, I choose ai for the middle of the word and ay for the end of the word (rain, day).  Can you think of some other examples and ask me to tell you my spelling choice? Next week we will be practise writing super sentences which have 4 characteristics:

1. Start with a capital letter
2. End with a full stop
3. Be about someone or something (noun)
4. Make sense

Can you give me a noun and I will orally tell you a super sentence?

In Maths we will be developing our understanding of place value by focussing on bridging to ten and partitioning numbers.  We will be learning our friends of ten (9 and 1, 8 and 2, 7 and 3 etc). We will also be learning to identify how many tens and how many ones.  Money is a relevant way to help me understand these concepts. When paying for items, ask me what coins we would use to pay. Eg. If my ice cream costs $4.50, we need $4 plus 2 x 20c and 1 x 10c or 1 x 50c etc.

We have been discussing and learning about the 40 days of lent in our classroom.  I have made a lenten promise and am working hard to commit to this. While we are driving home, ask me to reflect on how I’m going with my promise and whether you can see me trying really hard to make sacrifices to achieve this.

Throughout the week, we work really hard to demonstrate the 4 Rs.  Each time a teacher sees us demonstrating behaviour that is Respectful, Responsible, Resilient, Ready to Learn, we get a Joey’s Token.  Students with 20 Joey’s tokens each week are invited to Golden Time on a Friday afternoon. Here are some photos of Year 1 enjoying Golden Time.