Year 1 Neighbourhood

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 …

This term, as our inquiry has begun to deepen, we have been exploring the question “how do we learn more about things?” With this question in mind, the children have been studying non-fiction texts and learning how to identify the key features of these texts. Through provocations, the year 1’s have been investigating non-fiction texts, …

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 …

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 …

This week is the final week of term 1. We have had a wonderful time together and explored and develop many ideas about our community. This week we will reflect on those ideas and begin to think about the next steps for our inquiry. For example; what community groups could we learn about? Who are …

This week will be a HUGE week for our swimming program. Because of this, and knowing how exhausted the children will be, we are going to be focusing on resilience, persistence and emotional regulation in addition to the following literacy and numeracy focuses.  Writing focus –  publishing and editing. Reading focus – comprehension and retelling …

As we delve further into our inquiry, something we have found interesting is that while children are beginning to recognise that communities are more than just a place they appear curious about why people meet at particular places. After considering our direct community at school (the Year 1 Neighbourhood) we have used the idea of …

This week we are continuing to explore the concepts of community, diversity and place through workshops and provocations.  This week kicks off with Harmony Day on Monday , looking at how we are One community beyond just our neighbourhood. We are excited to share our ideas with everyone at Friday’s whole school assembly.  Provocations this …

This week we are continuing to explore the concepts of community, diversity and place through workshops and provocations. Children will be provoked to consider community through virtually exploring the Melbourne Museum. They will consider diversity through the picture book ‘My Two Blankets’ and the concept of place through the exploration of directional language connected to …

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 …