Welcome back to Term 2!

Welcome back to term two 1T! We've got an exciting term in store! We began with reading groups straight off on our first day back! We hit the ground running and I must thank Dee for being ready to listen to our lovely students read on that first day back. We also had assembly on Wednesday and some of us got to stand on the stage to help all of kindergarten, year 1 and 2 sing along to 'Going to the Zoo' and doing the actions. We did a fabulous job!

 

We even had number groups on our first day back! My number group practiced our numbers before and after, played a game where you needed to find the answers to some doubles and we also had to add on to 20 rolling a dice using a number line. We were so busy learning that the time just flew by!

On Friday we did some rotating literacy activities looking at the long 'a' sound, nouns, using our whisper phones to read to ourselves and writing for our 'Wow Wall'. I must say a big thank you to both Samuel and Xavier's families who have made some more whisper phones so that we now have enough for everybody to use one when we're reading to ourselves! Thank you!

 

We then had our computer lesson using google classroom where we learnt how to change font colour, size and style before we learnt how to insert a picture into our slide. 

 

We ended our week with an amazing SISA lesson! We're learning our fundamental movement skills with some amazing equipment. Check it out!

 

STEM Afternoons

Here's a little taste of our last two STEM afternoon sessions. We'll be putting something in the newsletter next term that lets you know a little more about what we were doing. I got to go to all the classes briefly on Thursday afternoon and the buzz coming from all the classes was wonderful!

 

Reading groups in action

I had someone take photos of reading groups in action this week. We're very busy during reading groups so it's been difficult to record us working. But we have worked really hard and you can see us below. We read with Mrs Taylor or a parent, work with words (playing sight word memory, phonics and sight word board games and make words such as rhyming words), are beginning to work on simple comprehension strategies (making predictions, making connections, visualising, summarising using who, what, where, when and why or identifying the beginning, middle and end of the story), technology (iPad sight word and phonics games/listening to stories) and practicing our writing (using pictures or sentence starters). We rotate through activities in the mornings during our literacy groups on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Wednesday and Thursday have been shorter days this term because of our weekly assembly and SISA sport. Next term we won't have SISA on Thursday so will be able to have a normal reading session on that day.