Year 1 News
Miss Hansson's ELC2 Superstars
Highlights from this Week
Tuesday: No School
Friday: Gardening Rotations and a half day with Ms Stone
Coming up next week:
Thursday: Learning Journey 8:45-9:30am and Our Story Incursion 1:45-2:45pm
Friday: Last day of term 1
Learning Journey Week 10 Thursday 8:45-9:30
There has been an important change to the time of the learning journey, it will now be on Thursday from 8:45-9:30am. This is to fit around the Our Story Incursion on Thursday afternoon.
Fun in Our ELC2 Garden!
A special thank you to Kimberley Poyner and April Farfan for giving up their time on Friday morning in our class garden. This term we have been looking at the Cross Curriculum Priority on sustainability and learning about how living things grow, what they need to survive and how we can look after the environment.
On Friday morning we had 3 rotational activities:
- Planting with Miss Hansson: In this activity the students planted their established fruit and vegetable seedlings from last fortnight in to our ELC2 garden bed.
- Bug Hunt with April: In this activity the students collected and recorded the bugs that they found around the garden. We were amazed by the range of insects that the students found, including a stick insect! The students later discussed the types of living things that use the garden as their habitat and how living things in the garden work together as an ecosystem. For example the relationship between worms and the garden.
- Soil Search with Kimberley: In this activity the students walked around to look at the array of different coloured soil found in the garden. Using a finding card the students collected the different coloured soil in a sample pots. Later we discussed the reasons for this colour change and the vital part that soil plays in our gardens ecosystem.
Bug Club Home Reading
Parent Helpers for the Morning Sessions
We still need helpers to fill in times on the morning helper timetable near the front door, in particular Wednesday morning.
We still require some more parent helpers for these morning sessions. If you can spare 15 minutes one morning a week and would like to be a part of our morning program please sign up on the timetable (on the class window). The options available are:
- listening to students reading their home readers, focusing on developing their fluency (reading should have a nice flow and sound like they are speaking, not reading each individual word with a robotic tone) and ask the comprehension focus of the fortnight (e.g. inference).
- Helping the students master their sight words by pointing to words form their current list as the student orally reads/spells the word.