Spot the difference . . .

Grade 1 is back on line . . . and better than ever before. We’d all rather be face to face at school but ‘every cloud has a silver lining’ and Covid has certainly made our technology skills sky rocket! I finally figured out what teaching online reminds me of . . ....

Grade 1’s got spirit!

What a week! We have had so much fun and friendship. In today’s post we are going to celebrate the good times and be grateful for them as we prepare to go back online. Enjoy our fabulous photos!

More Stories and Spirit Week in G1

We enjoyed seeing what our friends wore for Spirit week. We also enjoyed measuring capacity of containers for the 3 bears. We practiced and performed ‘The Goldilocks and The 3 Bears Rap’ to the K3’s and other Grade 1 class. Watch this space! We are...

Check Out Our Designer Shoes!

Following on from the Shoemaker and the Elves fairy tale, we designed and made our own shoes during STEAM time. At the start it was really tricky. We weren’t quite sure how to make them 3D. Once we figured this out, it was all go! We used scrap paper to make our...

Collecting and packing in Grade 1 . . .

Check out our Packets of Ten! We had so much fun, and quite a bit of challenge collecting 50 pebbles . . . That’s 5 lots of 10. We have sealed each group of 10 into its own little packet, so know they will be really useful tools for making big numbers . . . And they...

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....