Money-Beasts!

Today the children traced around different coins to make a chosen mini-beast. They then calculated "how much money" each mini-beast (or money-beast!) was worth. Have a look at Lucy's work.

What is a half?

Here is an anchor chart of what we focussed on today - Fractions of a Whole. We experimented with different ways to make two equal halves. Here is also a photo of Ben's work.

We began the session by making a pyramid. Jake pointed out that it was a square-based pyramid. Then we went on to make a cube. We realised we had the shapes to make basic houses! This evolved into making a city of houses, Shape City. Suddenly other city features appeared such as roads, stop signs, trees, birds in trees, erasers as cars and sharpeners formed into skate parks!

Numbers

We are really trying to get to know numbers. In partners, we can take turns at writing numbers in a counting pattern. Last week, some of us started at 2 and counted until past 100. Some of us started at 100 or 200, and counted backwards by 2s! Here is a photo of our number strips.

Maths Stories

In Maths we have been writing maths stories using addition and subtraction. Here are 2 stories by Grace and Emily.

Venn Diagrams

We have started using Venn Diagrams to compare. Comparing lets us see how things are different and the same.

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Crafty Fun

What a wonderful time we had making sea creature bookmarks with Kailan and his clever, crafty mum. Here are a selection of the beautiful bookmarks we made yesterday. What a great way to finish off a term learning about sea creatures!

Dreamy Writing

We enjoyed writing about our dreams. It was a bit like writing a mini recount! They are on display outside our classroom. Here is Ben's work.

Our Whale Projects

Yesterday we researched whales on kidrex.org. Today we made mini projects about whales. Have a look at these well-presented projects by Adam, Kailan and Riley.

Writing Descriptions

Today we each chose an object from our Sea Creature Museum and wrote a simple description. Here is Junhong's writing about Katie's shark.

Writing a Sea Creature Narrative

This week we have been talking about narratives. Narratives are stories and we have been looking out for the introduction, problem and solution that is in most stories. Yesterday the children decided what the main character would be in their own narrative. They drew their character and gave it a name. Today they wrote a narrative about their character. They introduced their character in the first paragraph. In the second paragraph, each story told about a problem and in the last paragraph the problem was somehow solved. Well done on lots of creative thinking and writing in 1B! Here is Grace's narrative about Billie the Sea Jelly and Lucy's narrative about Shiler the Stonefish. Thanks Miss Downing for this fun and creative activity! Enjoy!

Our Favourite Sea Creatures

What is your favourite sea creature and why?

Making Sea Creatures!

Here is a photo of the Sea Creatures we made with Miss Downing on Tuesday afternoon. Who did you work with? What did you make? How did you make it? What words DESCRIBE your creature?

Premier's Reading Challenge Update

Congratulations to Adam, Emma, Indy, Katie, Finn, Ben and Lucy who have all completed the Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge! I know some of you are going on to tackle the Super Duper Reading Challenge, which involves reading 100 books! Indy is the leader so far with 56 books read and logged onto the website. Well done also to Riley, Chelsea, Connor, Kailan and Jess who have been logging on books and will soon finish the main challenge. Keep up the great reading everyone!

We Looked At FL Words

We found lots of words that start with fl. Some words are flower, fly and flood. Here is some work by Emma, Abby and Amelie.

What can we see in the sea?

Thank you to everyone who has brought in storybooks and objects about sea life for our classroom museum. Today we drew some pictures and made some notes about what we ALREADY know about sea life, before we start doing any new learning. Here is the work of Abby and Olivia.

Book Spotlight of "The Dot" - by Jake and Abby

The Dot It is fiction. Jake's favourite page is the gold frame. Abby's favourite page is the big dot. We give it 5 stars out of 5.

Clues About 2D Shapes

We have been talking about 2D shapes, corners and sides. Have a look at Archie's clues about his mystery shape.

Handwriting About Our Buckets

We practised careful handwriting by writing three sentences together about our Buckets. See the work of Indy and Connor here.

We Can Fill Buckets...

Today we read Fill A Bucket which is a lovely book that talks about how everyone has an invisible bucket (even our pets!). A bucket is easy to fill with good feelings. We talked about how filling someone else's bucket is easy and rewarding. The great feeling of helping someone else or being a good friend means that our own bucket is filled as well.

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"Shhhh" said the Sheep

Well done to everyone for completing the SH challenge part of our spelling test today and earning lots of house points! Here is Katie's page about sh.

What is a sentence?

We are talking about capital letters and the times to use them, full stops, spaces between words and whether it makes sense! Also, even though sometimes we see it in books, it is not good writing to start a sentence with "and". Have a look at the activity we did earlier in the week about Bobby (you may have heard of our class mascot). Riley's work is here to show you. Then, we had a go at writing our own sentences about ourselves. See Chelsea's below. Everyone is working really hard in writing to have the correct punctuation. It is wonderful to see that so many students love to write.

Neat and Tidy!

I have already noticed that this class is extremely good at packing up after themselves and helping others to pack up quickly. It is so lovely to look at the lockers and see that nothing needs picking up! A big thank you to parents and past teachers for setting out the importance of this, and of course the students themselves for keep everything neat and tidy. Keep up the wonderful work 1B!