Happenings Term 2 Week 1
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Welcome to Term 2!
Welcome to term 2! We hope everyone has had a very relaxing and enjoyable school holidays and we cannot wait to hear all the lovely stories of what the children have gotten up to! Learning focus This week, further to exploring our place in the world, we are beginning to look at change. We will
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Learning focus week 8!
Morning everyone! This week in Literacy we will focusing on procedural texts and developing instructions to make a volcano! The children have already made some predictions about what they think will happen when Bi-Carb Soda and Vinegar are combined! recently in Numeracy we began measuring our heights using informal units of measurement (pencils, chopsticks and
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Learning Focus for Week 6
As we move forward with our Year 1 Inquiry “Our Place in the World”, we are continuing to investigate the scientific concepts around light, sound and bugs. The children have been exploring light and will build on their ideas and learning by experimenting with colours on a projected light-box; bugs have been a huge source
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Welcome Jess!
Morning all! Mark has now commenced a new role in the school and as we wave aloha to Mark we also wave aloha to Jess! (Yes – aloha can mean both hello and goodbye!) Jess will join the year one team and we are very excited to have her on board! We have added Jess
Happenings Week 5
This week has been amazing and full of fun learning experiences. Here are some examples of the week. Literacy focus Writing – Narrative Genre Reading – Word detectives and spelling patterns Numeracy Focus Data collection and representation – making pictographs Inquiry Focus Exploring my place in the world – interacting, responding, engaging and exploring Interesting
Learning Focus Week 5
As the Year 1 inquiry “My Place in the World” unfolds, we are currently investigating the world through scientific concepts that the children have shown an interest in. These are light, sound, and bugs! The children have already started sharing their ideas about these areas and this week we are exploring different thoughts and ideas
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Happenings Week 3
Last week during provocations time we explored the school looking to collect bugs. We found Slaters, Millipedes, Snails, Ants, Spiders and an Earwig! Also whilst exploring sound we created our own percussion instruments, and then made our own rhythmic compositions to be performed for the neighbourhood! In Literacy we became word detectives and searched for
Take home reading books!
Hello lovely families! Tomorrow is Wednesday, and Wednesday morning is now Year 1’s library time. We will be setting the students up with their Year 1 book bags, a book for responding in and they will be bringing home their initial reading books for the term. At this stage the books will not have their
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