Week 1 Learning Focus

Literacy

Revisiting recount writing – key pieces of information to include.

Holiday Story telling and sequencing through illustration and text.

Holiday sharing – Speaking about the holidays and listening to others while they shared their (using active listening). Retelling information they learnt about their peers.

Big book reading, letter and word study.

Mathematics

Which bugs will be the most common visitors to the bug hotel? Recording information gained from a Neighbourhood vote and using a tally board to record information. Ordering predictions from smallest number of votes to largest. Examining the data – counting how many people voted to determining whether it was an accurate representation.

Exploration into time, purpose of clocks and what they look like.

Inquiry

Choosing their favourite bug to research. Meeting the people in their group and working together to gather information about their bug.