Term 1 Week 5 - 7

What a busy past few weeks we have had in Room 15.

On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings we have been participating in group fitness. We love visiting Miss Lockyer and Mrs Paganini/Mrs Fitzgerald and playing fun fitness games with them. We REALLY enjoy doing Jump Jam. We particularly love dancing to the theme song from the Madagascar movie 'I Like To Move It'.

In Literacy we have been trying so hard to practise our spelling list words. Each day we complete different activities with the same words to help us remember how they are spelt. On Fridays we set our goal for how many people will get 10/10. Last week we set a new class record and 14 of our friends got 10/10. This week we are aiming for 15 friends.

We have also been working on creating a story wheel. Each day we read the book The Hidden Forrest by Jeannie Baker as part of our Guided Reading Program. We then discussed the 5 main events in the story and drew one event in each part of the wheel. After we had finished our marvellous drawings we shared our story wheel in groups of 4 and had to retell the story to our friends using our drawings.

In Numeracy we have begun exploring Place Value. We have been watching many place value vidoes and have learnt a song that helps us to remember our ones, tens and hundreds.  We have been working in groups to place the digits cards and the place value blocks into the correct columns.  It is tricky but with practise we are sure we can become place value masters. 

Welcome to Room 15

Wow! What a fantastic start to the year we have had in Room 15.

We have welcomed new friends with open arms and continued to grow our friendships from Pre Primary.

We have been practising our handwriting everyday and are becoming experts at writing on dotted third paper. In Literacy Block we have also been focusing on guided reading and building up our oral comprehension skills. Miss Russell has also been teaching us about spelling, sight words and phonics. We are learning so much!

In our Numeracy Block we have been learning how to count to 100. We have read many counting books, watched hundreds of counting videos and learnt the big number song. We even counted up to 1 BILLION!! Now that we are expert counters we have begun skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s. It can be very tricky but Miss Russell has taught us a cool hoop game that helps us to remember the order of the numbers.

We have really enjoyed our first 5 weeks of year 1. We cannot wait to share our next adventures with you.