Thank you to the parents and carers who have come in to help their child's group shape up their game. They are starting to look very sturdy and exciting!
There is so much learning occurring alongside our Inquiry so here is a snapshot of some of the learning occurring in the year one neighbourhood at the moment:
Literacy:
- The children are learning many genres of writing during learning agreement and in writing targets including:
- Letters - to Gabbie requesting a pop up at the Bazaar
- Environmental Print - writing signage and posters for their arcades and the Bazaar
- Procedural Text- Instructions to their arcade game
- Recounts and reflections - related to our excursions
- Thinking Routines - about change
- Reader's response - linked to our sustainability Inquiry: Places, who cares what matters?(Story: Refugees)
- Newspaper Report - after our pop up arcade at the Bazaar
- Through these genres, children are developing their drafting, editing and publishing skills and building their word study and spelling knowledge.
- The spelling focus is the commonly used words, word endings (s, ed, ing), using a known word as a strategy to spell an unknown word (analogy).
- Handwriting: practising letter formation when publishing and developing fine motor skills.
Numeracy:
- Term 3 focus was on Time and the children worked on reading the time, interpreting calendars, measuring the duration of every day events.
- Term 4 focus is on measurement and shape
- Using informal and formal units of measurement to estimate, compare and measure their arcade games and boxes (using unifix, 30cm and metre rulers, measuring tapes)
- Investigating 2D and 3D shapes
- Addition and Subtraction strategy targets which will support mental addition of point scores for their arcade games.
Personal and Interpersonal Learning:
- The children are learning about team work, collaboration,
- The children are learning to work in teams to complete structured activities within a set timeframe
- Students learn to stay on task and share resources fairly. In response to questions and prompts, they learn to reflect on the team’s challenges and successes and their contribution to the team’s effectiveness.
Design and Technology:
- Using creative, imaginative and inventive thinking
- Offering ideas and suggestions to improve ideas of others
- Working with recycled materials and joining techniques
- Investigate how things work
- Play with and manipulate materials and think about and describe their properties.
- Develop basic designs with drawings, models and prototypes
- Explain set of instructions for how something works
Assessment and Reporting
The reading and writing profiles are currently being developed on every child and will be available in your child's portfolio before the end of the year. We are currently administering various assessment tasks and gathering work samples for moderation across the whole school for reporting purposes.
