The Year 1’s have settled into our regular school routines and practises.  We have been learning to entertain our readers by creating narrative texts rich in describing words.  We drew illustrations of our very own Blue Thingamajig to show the connection between ideas and text.  We will be publishing our work and displaying it in the classroom.  I will take a photo and share it in our next newsletter.

In Maths we have been building our number sense by identifying and continuing patterns, skip counting, and sequencing numbers from 1 to 100.  We have been using place value to find numbers quickly and easily on our 100s chart.

In Science we have been learning about states of matter (solid, liquid, gas) and how we can use heat and cool to change states of matter.  We also explored the reasons for wanting to change the states of matter.  For example, a burger just wouldn’t taste the same if we didn’t cook our egg before adding it!

The class has been reading two scriptures - the Calling of the Disciples, and Jesus Lost in the Temple.  We have been discussing Jesus' mission of sharing God’s word and how we can capture people’s hearts by spreading love, patience and kindness.  The students have shown they understand these stories and are putting our ideas into practise.  There is so much love and kindness to share in our class.