What a great first week!

We have just finished out first full week of school!

We have been very busy this week with our Unit of Inquiry learning about 'Interactions' and checking each day about how we feel and sharing the interactions we may have had. We worked in groups and each group discussed and brainstormed about different ways we can interact with people. It was a completely open-ended activity where the children could share their thoughts and feelings. We then shared our ideas as a whole class at the end. 

We did a lot of work in small groups this week for Unit of Inquiry, Language and Maths. We talked about what it was like to work in groups and what you need to do in a group to successfully complete an activity. Communication and good listeners were the two main goals we worked on this week.

We spent this week reviewing Language by going back over our letter names and sound. We also spent some time on long vowel sounds and blends. We also wrote our first Journal entry about our weekend and the children did a great job writing in their books independently for the first time in Grade One! We practiced our handwriting and concentrated on remembering where to place letters on the line when writing. We also checked that we could remember how to write both the upper case and lower case letters all correctly. 

Maths

In Maths we have also been doing a lot of revision. We practiced writing our numbers and making sure they were written correctly, we did a lot of counting - all the way to 100, skip counting in twos, fives and tens and singing lots of fun number songs. In small groups we rotated around various activities which included - showing different ways to make numbers from 1-20, snakes and ladders, dice addition games, practiced writing our numbers, created pictures using different shapes and much more!

Buddies

Friday was such a busy day! We also met our Class buddies for the first this year. We are partnered up with Mrs Alison and her Grade 4 class. During Friday afternoon we had a couple of activities to do. First we had the chance to meet our buddies and get to know them. We did this by talking to each other about what we like and don't like. Then we drew each others portrait and wrote all the things we found out about each other. Once finished we got to read or listen to a story. We had a great time meeting our new buddies and chatting to the 'big kids.' It really is a great opportunity for our Grade Ones to have buddies that are higher up the school and we can't wait to see them again!

Have a great weekend everyone!