Books And More for Grade 1.

We love stories in Grade 1 and certainly don’t need an excuse to read them – but Book Week was certainly a chance to celebrate old favourites, inspire some new interests and even create our own. Maths at the moment is all about Fabulous Fives.   We all use...

An Enchanting Book Week

This week we enjoyed the following stories: Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book – we shared our favourite books with the class and drew the front covers. Thank you to those people who remembered to bring a book from home. On Monday we read Elmer and made our own...

Dots and spots and Smarty Pants

This week the students continued to work on reading and writing high frequency words from our stories. Ask your child why they are a Smarty Pants. They have been using their imaginations! In maths they have worked on different games to help secure their knowledge of...

Sharing the fun in Grade 1!

Parent’s Evening and our awesome Dot Day Assembly meant there were plenty of opportunities this week to share some of the fun we are having in Grade 1. It was tremendous to have so many families able to visit on Monday evening. The level of support for our home-school...

Short – but sweet. The week in Grade 1.

What a difference a week can make! There is a lot to learn but it already feels like we are a class who belongs together. This week we focused on the idea that we all bring different things to our community and that “we are like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. We are all...