This week in Reading our Learning Focus has been “Expand Vocabulary” with success criteria: “I can tune in to interesting words”.
The Lions group were reading “I never know how poems start” and came up with a big list of interesting words.
One of the interesting words in this book was satellite! We were able to work out what this word meant by looking at the words before and after.
Have you read any interesting words lately?
We have begun this week looking at the ideas trait. Miss King read us a book called Tulip sees America .
After reading the book we did an activity with a partner. We thought about “The best place to visit in the world”. We used descriptive words to write what that place might look, feel, smell, taste and sound like.
Here are some photos of us working on this activity.
What is your favorite place?
We have been learning about where our food comes from in Integrated Studies this term.
This week we have been talking about healthy eating and how we need to eat a diverse range of foods to keep healthy.
we made this food pyramid in class today.
Which healthy foods do you like the best?
This week our Learning Focus in Reading has been Making Connections with other texts. We read Wombat Stew and some of the connections made included ; Possum Magic, Skippy, Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree, The Gingerbread Man and Koala Lou.
Which texts did you make connections with?
Throughout this year we have observed a magpie or two doing what magpies do. We have seen nests being built in preparation for babies, we have seen babies being fed (we think) and we have had conversations about magpies swooping and why they do this. So, it was with great excitement that we saw our baby magpie with it’s mother yesterday. The mum was teaching it how to look for worms and the dad was close by keeping an eye on things.
Have you seen any other magpie chicks around Barwon Heads?
Can you think of any words to describe the magpie chick?
What was your favourite part of the Grade One Dinner?
This week we have been learning how to tell the time.
Today we made a big clock in the playground. We each had a turn at making an o’clock time or a half past time.
what do you know about time?
Today is the 11/11, the day we remember and thank the many people who have taken part in wars to protect their countries.
This photo is of some of the poppies lining the rememberance wall at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
We hope you enjoy this short film Grade 1 made about Getting Along.