Grade 1 

1A: Lisa Kyllo                                                           

1B: Sonia Kaur

1C: Elizabeth Magdato  

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 

- 1D Wednesday 

- 1A, 1B, 1C, 1E Thursday

- 1F, 1G Friday  

Important Dates

October 5 - First day of term

October 19 - Assembly

October 30 - World Teacher’s Day

November 2 - Curriculum day

November 3 - Melbourne Cup Day

November 6 - Grade 1A, 1B, 1C & 1D transition to Ambrosia

November 9 - Assembly

November 11 - Remembrance Day service

November 16 - Tiddalik Incursion, Grade 1B, 1C, 1D & 1E

November 18 - Tiddalik Incursion - Grade 1A, 1F & 1G

November 20 - Grade 1E, 1F & 1G transition to Ambrosia

November 30 - Assembly

December 8 - Step up day

December 11 - Curriculum day

December 14 - Reports live

December 17 - Last day of term for students, 3:15 finish

Learning

In Term 4, the Grade 1 students are focusing on the following:

Reading 

• Answering comprehension questions about a text including questions where the answer is not stated directly in the text
• using a range of strategies to work out unknown words (phonics, rereading, picture clues) 
• pausing appropriately at punctuation marks
• discussing images, opinions and facts
• learning how different types of texts are organised

Writing 

• forming letters correctly on the lines
•  using phonic knowledge to spell common words
•  exploring and writing persuasive texts
• rereading their writing to make simple error corrections
• applying their growing knowledge of punctuation

Mathematics

• practising skip counting by 10s, 5s and 2s
• making numbers up to 120 using hundreds, tens and ones
• partitioning 2-digit numbers into tens and ones, using materials 
• identifying one more or one less than any 2-digit number
• adding and subtracting numbers within 20 using number lines and materials
• forming questions to conduct a survey, creating a graph based on their data and answering questions about their graphs
• describing how long an event takes to happen using days, weeks, months and years
• Sequencing events based on when they happen in a day and how long they take to complete
• Telling the time to the hour on analogue clocks

Inquiry 

• Our Inquiry topic this term is “Earth and Space Science - Up in the sky”.

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.