Year One - Emily Rickard & Breanna Cahill

This year students in Year 1 started a new and exciting reading program called Little Learners Love Literacy. This week we have been busy learning about what syllables are and how we can break longer words into syllables to help us when we are reading. Did you know that the word fantastic has 3 syllables? Fan-tas-tic!  

We have also been listening really carefully to the sounds that make up words to help us when we read and spell. We can change one sound in a word to make a new word. 

Here are some thoughts about Little Learners from the Year 1’s: 

• “Little Learners makes me a better reader” - Alex T 
• “I like the activities we get to do like cutting and pasting” - Geoffrey 
• “I like reading about what the characters Pip and Tim are doing” - Ethan C 
• “My favourite part is Tim’s Quiz because we can solve funny questions” - Mason 

Year Two - Jacqui Butler & Emma Maddicks

It was wonderful to meet with parents last week during our Student Learning Conversations and listen to students sharing their learning with parents and discussing their learning goals. 

Learning to Learn - Our focus this term is on students learning the different roles at school, specifically what the job of the teacher/student is and is not. This empowers students to understand their role within the school. 

Skill and Drill - Students participate in different activities daily to learn to read and write the high frequency words. One of their favourite activities is called Read and Grab. This is a  fun way to learn their words.

• “I am learning to read words. It is definitely fun.” (Ezra)
• “I am can learn different sounds in the word, like ea and ee” (Elodie)

Harmony Day - Last Friday, we had Footsteps, a dance company, visit our school and teach our students some cultural dances.   The Juniors learnt a Maori inspired dance and will have another opportunity to practise the dance before they perform it at the Whole School Assembly this week. 

• “I like dancing. It was fun learning a new dance.” (Madeline)
• 'I liked learning the different moves and stretching my body.” (Tahlia)

Mathematic - Place Value  Students are enjoying our place value focus,  through which they are required to represent a given number in multiple ways. This could be writing the number in its worded form, placing the digits in the correct place value columns, identifying what number is one more/less, ten more/less and expanding the number. 

This week, teachers were fortunate to participate in further learning in this area to support students' growth and understanding.