Grade 1
1A: Lisa Kyllo
1B: Sonia Kaur
1C: Elizabeth Magdato and Anita Cripps
1D: Andrew Curwood
1E: Rae Mark
1F: Mel Blair and Cameron Mitchell
1G: Raquel Romano
Weekly schedule:
PE and HEALTH
- 1A, 1B, 1E, 1F Wednesday
- 1C, 1D, 1G Friday
ART
- 1B, 1C, 1F, 1G Wednesday
- 1A, 1D, 1E Friday
PERFORMING ARTS
- 1C, 1D, 1G Wednesday
- 1A, 1B, 1E, 1F Friday
AUSLAN
- 1A, 1D, 1E Wednesday
- 1B, 1C, 1F, 1G Friday
LIBRARY
- 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E Thursday
- 1F, 1G Friday
Important Dates
20 April - First day Term 2 - teachers only
21 April - First Day Term 2 - students begin
24 April - NRL Day
25 April - ANZAC DAY
4 May - Assembly - Foundation presenting
7 May - Mother’s Day Stall
25 May - Cultural Incursion, Assembly - Foundation presenting
27 May - National Simultaneous Storytime
28 May - PPDay (no school for students)
30 May - Mad About Science Incursion
8 June - King’s Birthday holiday
15 June - Assembly - Foundation presenting
16 and 18 June - Mad about Science Incursion
23 June - Reports ready for viewing
26 June - final day of Term 2, 2:15 dismissal
Learning
In Term 2, the Grade 1 students are focusing on the following:
Reading
- Answering comprehension questions about a text, including making connections to texts.
- Using a range of strategies to work out unknown words (phonics knowledge, rereading, picture clues).
Writing
- Forming letters correctly on the lines and using phonic knowledge to spell common words.
- Students will also be writing procedural texts and recounts.
Mathematics
- Multiplication and division using the terms ‘groups of’ and ‘sharing’.
- Recognising and representing numbers to 120.
- Skip counting by 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s forwards and backwards to 120.
- Recognising, creating and continuing patterns.
- Recording and understanding data, including the use of tally marks.
Inquiry
- Our Inquiry topic this term is “Light and Sound”.
Home Learning
Home Reading – read every day for at least 20 min. Children should be reading their “I read to you” book and parents should be reading, or assisting children to read the “Read to me” books. Books will be changed once a week. Please be aware of your child’s day to change their home readers and make sure they have their home reading folder on the correct day.
