So much going on....

We have almost finished our first full week of school!

We have been very busy this week with our Unit of Inquiry learning about 'Making Choices' and checking each day about how we feel and sharing the choices we may have had to make. We worked as a class discussing and brainstorming about different ways we make healthy choices for ourselves and others. It was a completely open-ended activity where the children could share their thoughts and ask questions too.

What's on your plate?

Making healthy choices in the cafeteria for lunch:

As you all know we also began our journey on Seesaw this week and started to add pieces of work to our journals. It is such a great tool that allows the children to share with their parents and families from inside the classroom/school. 

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 sounds. 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! They were delighted to post it on Seesaw for you and their families to see. 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 120, skip counting in twos, fives and tens and singing lots of fun number songs. In small groups we rotated around various activities which included - dice tower game, practiced writing our numbers, created pictures using different shapes, show the number, number lines and much more!

Birthday

We celebrated our first birthday this week in class. A very happy birthday to you Emma, thanks for sharing the delicious cupcakes :-)

Buddies

Thursday we met our class buddies for the first time this year. We are partnered up with Mr Simon's Grade 4 class. We introduced ourselves and got to read or listen to a story. We had a great time meeting our new buddies and chatting to them. 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!