Term 4 Week 2

On Sunday we had a pet mass.  We brought our pets along so Father Dom could bless them.  This is a photo of Miffy being blessed.  The pets were all very well behaved.

We can now test ourselves on our sight words.  If we get them all right we can get tested by Miss D and move up the rainbow.

We painted some aboriginal flags.    The black symbolises the people.  The yellow symbolises the sun.  The red symbolises the land.

We have been talking about the dreamtime.  The dreamtime is when the aboriginals believe that the Earth was created.  The aboriginals believe that the rainbow serpent slithered all over the land and made all the hills and rivers and landforms.

We had a number line and we had to stand behind it so we couldn't see the numbers.  Then we had to use what we know about numbers to put the peg on the right spot. 

We learnt that the aboriginal people didn't have shops to buy food.  They had to hunt and gather.  The girls did the gathering and the boys did the hunting.  So we pretended that we were aboriginals.  The boys went hunting and the girls went gathering.

We couldn't go hunting and gathering for real food so we went hunting and gathering pictures of food that aboriginal people might have eaten.  There was lots of interesting things they ate.

When we got back to class Miss R let us try some real aboriginal food.  Some of us were brave enough to try the witchetty grubs!  Some were brave enough to try the kangaroo and some were even brave enough to try the snake!

Just kidding!  Only one of the foods was real, the other two were pretend.  The witchetty grubs were really baby food.  The kangaroo was real and the snakes were lolly snakes!  Miss R was very impressed with how brave we were to try them when we thought they were real!

Today was Grandparents Day.  Our grandparents came to visit our classroom.  We showed them around the room and showed them all the fantastic work we have been doing.  It was lovely having them come and visit. 

Thank you grandparents!

Term 4 Week 1

Welcome to term 4! It is our last term as year 1's.  Next year we will be year 2's!  Miss R says we are going to be very busy this term as we get ready to be year 2's.

We all shared what we did on the holidays. We have been busily writing a recount of our holidays.  We are nearly finished so you can read some of them on our publishing page soon.

This term we have started doing some maths word problems.  In real life people don't come up to you and say "What's 5+5?" but they might come up and say " I have 5 biscuits and you have 5 biscuits, how many do we have all together?".  So we need to be good at working out word problems.

We found lots of ways we can work out word problems.

We can draw it.

 

We can use our fingers.

 

We can use counters.

 

When we finish solving the problem we share some of the ways we worked it out.

This term we are learning about Australia.  We talked about what we already know about Australia.  Then we drew as many Australian animals, places, plants and foods as we could inside a map of Australia.  Then we painted the ocean blue and the land green or orange.

The first people to live in Australia were the Aboriginals.  So we are going to start learning about them.



This term Miss R is going to teach us a game called kickball.  To play kickball we need to be able to kick a ball.  So today in sport we practiced kicking a ball into some goals.

We have got 5 iPads in our classroom for the next two weeks.  We get to be the first class in the school to test them out and find ways we can use them to help us learn. We are very excited to use them in our classroom!

This Sunday we will be having a pet mass on the oval at 4pm.  Father Dom is going to bless our pets.  Hopefully the pets all sit as nicely in Church as we do.

Term 3 Week 10

These are some of our finished 3D dinosaurs.  We traced them, we painted them, we cut them out, we stuffed them, we stapled them and we named them.

This week we had a liturgy to celebrate Mary's birthday.  Instead of having cake we made biscuits with a cross on them.  Yum!

This week we learnt about verbs.  A verb is a doing word. Can you guess what we are doing in these photos?

This term we have become dinosaur experts!  We have been learning about facts and opinions.  We made our own non fiction book full of facts about dinosaurs.  Today we went around to five different classes and taught them all about dinosaurs. It was awesome.  Everyone thought we were very clever!

Today is the last day of term 3!  We hope you all have a wonderful holiday.

Term 3 Week 9

We worked together to put our sight words into alphabetical order.  That means we were putting them in order from a to z.

We did a word sort.  Miss R gave us a page of words.  We had to work out what  was the same about the words and sort them into groups.  Then we highlighted the sound that is the same in each group. 

This week we have been learning about halves and wholes.  A whole is one thing and a half is when you cut a whole into two equal parts. 

We read a book about fractions.  We covered a whole biscuit with butter and then we put sprinkles on half the bisuit.  If you didn't make the halves equal then you didn't get the sprinkles, luckily everyone did it right!

We love blogging every week so this week Miss R decided that we should all have our own blog.  We all got to type our first post.  You can see our blogs at this address, http://kidblog.org/MissRsWonderfulOnes/ 

Some of us have already been busy blogginat home and posting comments on other peoples blogs.  What a great way to see what we are all doing.



Reading in Year 1

Check out these amazing readers.  They had only read this poem twice.  What great fluency and expression.  Well done!

Term 3 Week 8

This week we have learnt that there are different types of words.  We have been learning about nouns.  A noun is a naming word.  We made a poster of people, places and things.  We also named lots of things in our classroom and around the school.

This week Miss R gave us a new book to help us spell tricky words.  It is called My Useful Word Book.  It is a bit like a dictionary but it has room for us to write our own words.  We can find words because they are in alphabetical order like a dictionary.    There are also some words at the back that have been put into groups like, body parts, colours, sports, family and days of the week.

We have been learning to make and read o'clock times. We used some iPads to play some clock games and we used our own clocks to make different o'clock times.When the big, long hand is at the 12 it is o'clock and the small hand tells us what hour it is.

We are making a dinosaur. We are going to make it 3D so we have to draw and paint 2 sides of our dinosaur.  Our dinosaurs are going to be so big it is going to take us awhile to finish them all.

On Wednesday we had the junior primary sports fun day.  Below are some of our recounts of the day.

Our Sports Carnival By McKale

On Wednesday it was the sport carnival.  It was at the oval. We played a running race.  We played a flag race.  We played a running ball race.  Then it was lunch time and we went home.  It was fun.

We Had Our Sports Carnival By Mackenzie

Yesterday we had our sports carnival on the oval.  We did a flag race and a ball race. It was fun.

Our Carnival By Jason

Yesterday we had our carnival at school.  I came fourth in the race.  My favourite race was when I rolled the balls.  It was very fun.

Our Carnival By Meaghan

Yesterday we had a carnival at school.  I came second in a running race.  I am in blue.  My favourite race was the flag race.  It was fun!!

Today is Fruit and Vege day.  Mrs M and all her helpers were dressed up at the canteen.  There was lots of yummy fruit and veg to eat.  There was a Mr and Mrs Potato Head there.