Stories, Stories Everywhere!

This unit of inquiry is huge! We write stories, we solve number problems and we enjoy reading stories and finding the message. Thank you also for the stories we heard in the Mother Tongues. We had Portuguese, French and Spanish. We share our stories in different ways....

Celebrating our languages.

Grade 1 has been inquiring about ‘problems. We have decided there are ‘small problems’ and ‘big problems’. We know there are lots of things we can do and say to manage small problems ourselves. We also decided that . . . . . . Before your ‘small problems’ grow you can...

Learning can be fun!?

Despite being a short week, the children did excellent work. We consolidated the learning about lifecycles. The children had lots of fun playing Charades and guessing the sentence that their friends were acting out as a prelude to writing their recount about their...

Using Language!

The children made great connections between our different languages and found a few similarities between different languages. It also prompted discussion about our uniqueness and acceptance of others. This was weaved through our week of being “bucket...

Filling buckets of kindness.

Kind, caring and a great place to be . . . That’s Grade 1! We made a special celebration of Who We Are, as we spread our kindness near and far today. We looked like a rainbow in our bright, happy clothes, we gave away free smiles and kind words and we are all bringing...