Assessment week is over!

Hooray! Assessment week is over and we can get back into routine again! We started this morning with reading groups. There were a few changes in reading groups and we had to change some of our books into our new boxes. Then we got going on some reading tasks or reading to Mrs Taylor. We are all doing such a great job and have all been trying really hard, making great gains in our reading. Way to go 1T!

We also learnt about the long 'i' sound today. We worked out that ie, y, i, and i_e all say the long 'i' sound. Look how many words we knew that said 'i'!

 

We listened to a little bit of the book, 'You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum!' By Andy Stanton. Mr Gum is a man that doesn't like children, animals, fun and corn on the cob. He has an angry fairy who lives in his bathtub and makes Mr Gum keep the garden tidy or hits him with a frying pan. It gave us lots of ideas for our own stories! We had a great writing session and got to listen to some stories read to us by our peers. You can see by the smiles that these stories were very funny!

 

 

We did some graphing and position in the afternoon. We had to draw pictures on the left or right of a tree. This was a little tricky for some of us!

 

 

The day included some stamina reading. It's wonderful to see the excitement 1T had at reading their own chapter books! We made it to nearly ten minutes which isn't too bad on a Monday.

 

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!

 

Consonant Blends

We all got into our Google Classroom today! What an achievement! Once in there we had a link to click on with our mouse and then we got to play a game from ABCYa called 'consonant blends'. Check it out below!
ABCYa Consonant Blends

This shark eats chips!

 

We're learning about letters that make one sound. They're called digraphs. Sh, ch, th and wh are digraphs. The silly title of this post uses all the digraphs we are learning. We practiced writing words with these digraphs. Mrs Taylor gave each word with the digraph correctly written a point and each word spelled correctly a point. The 'sh' words won last week too. We know more 'sh' words than the other consonant digraphs like 'ch', 'wh' or 'th'. Although 'th' words are a close second. 

Have a look at this song about our consonant digraphs.