Term 3 has been a big term of learning and exploration. kicked off with our visit to the Melbourne Museum as we explored how stories can be shared through objects and how these teach us about changes over time. This gave us some great insights into story telling that has driven our collective inquiry going. …
Book Week is a wonderful tradition of celebrating Australian authors and illustrators. Since 1945, The Children’s Book Council of Australia have been showcasing authors and illustrators and present annual awards to books of literary merit, for outstanding contribution to Australian children’s literature. Categories such as Book of the Year, Picture Book of the Year and …
This term we have been exploring the features of libraries! This week we included mapping and through a workshop explored how maps can show us places by using shapes and directions. The children created maps of our library, documenting the important features and thinking about the shapes that the key parts of the library take …
Over the last couple of weeks, the children in the year 1 neighbourhood have been exploring the big question What are the different ways we communicate? Through the exploration of this question, we hope to deepen understandings of the systems that we have in our lives. We have been exploring systems such as the postal …
We know lots about Australia, it is our home! – Billy As we have come back together for term 2, the year 1 community was inspired by some holiday travels of some year 1’s. This led to our year 1 inquiry turn towards our understanding of place, particularly Australia and the many rich cultures and …
What does it mean to us to live and learn in Australia? Read More »
I think we should all write a book and put it in the library. Saskia Could connecting to children’s past experiences together support the establishment of a stronger lived experience of community within our neighbourhood? This is the question the year 1 teaching team have been discussing over the past few weeks as we seek …
Communities are groups of people all coming together. – Louis M. This week the children in the year 1 neighbourhood have been deepening their understanding of the community. Through observations and discussion through provocations, the teachers identified three key lenses that will help broaden the student’s ability to apply their understanding of community and take …
As we continue to look forward in celebrating the end of what’s been a very challenging, but successful year, the students have taken the time this week to think deeply and reflect on the achievements they’ve each made both at school and during remote learning. Through the many themes we’ve covered in our inquiry focuses, …
Hi everyone, As we begin to wind the year up in our neighbourhood, during one of our whole group discussions the students voiced they wanted to create their very own thank you letters to their parents/carers as part of their support during remote learning/Seesaw. The students wanted to write a meaningful message about how they …
“Instead of you going really fast when you can’t focus on things, it’s going a bit slower and it helps you to have a look at it and notice more things. Claudia I This beautiful observation was in response to work the children have been engaged in with artist in residence, dance teacher Toni …
Week 4 in the Year 1 Neighbourhood – Artists in Residence Read More »