Thankyou to all Grade 1 parent helpers for 2015! From all the Grade 1’s.
Repeating and Growing Patterns A growing pattern is something that keeps growing and gets bigger – Blake. A repeating pattern is when a pattern repeats a certain amount of times – Ella. Repeating patterns can be made by using numbers and shapes – Blake. Growing patterns can be made using objects, numbers and people – […]
Planting Seedlings
Today, with the help of a group of sensational senior students each Grade 1 child carefully planted their own tomato seedlings. The children are so excited to see the growth of the planted tomato seedlings over time.
Greg’s Visit – The School Architect
On Wednesday the 7th of October, the grade ones had a visit from Greg Strickland the school architect. He came in to talk to us about his job as an architect. First, Greg pulled out the St Brigid’s school plan to show us. After that, Greg spoke to us about the plan. He showed us […]
A Recount – Written by the Grade 1’s!
Our Toy Incursion On Wednesday the 9th of September, the Grade 1’s went to the multipurpose room for the toy incursion. First Melissa told us, “this is the look but don’t touch table”. Then she told us about some of the old toys and said that some of the tin toys were very delicate. We […]
Week 8
This week has been busy for the Grade 1’s. We started a new topic in maths (2D shape), Fathers Days gifts were made, persuasive posters were designed and constructed and finally children had the opportunity to present their home made recycled goods to the whole Grade 1 cohort. 2D Shape To begin our unit on […]
BOOK WEEK
On Tuesday the 25th of August we celebrated Book Week with a day of fun filled activities based on shortlisted books and of course had a book parade. In the JLC, the children were split into four groups. Using a rotating system, each group of children had the opportunity to work with all four teachers. […]
Maths – Length
In Maths over the past few weeks the children have been learning about length. We used the book Guess How Much I Love You to introduce the concept of length. Before reading the book we asked the children to listen out for words which describe size. Can you find any yourself? After reading we […]
Religion – Baptism As you all know, over the past four weeks we have been exploring Baptism. To begin this unit of work we had discussions around belonging and what it means. The children identified that they all belong to a family, home group, St Brigids, a sporting team, a nation and even a culture. […]
History
This term for our inquiry unit we will be exploring History – Past and Present. Over the term we will be addressing the below statements… Differences in family structures and roles today, and how these have changed or remained the same over time. How the present, past and future are signified by terms indicating time […]
