Year One - English

This term, the Year One students have been busy reading the text, ‘Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge’ by Mem Fox. We read about a little boy who helps an elderly woman with her memories. We wrote and drew about the memories she uncovered as well as our own special memories. We have enjoyed talking about our different memories of things we have done with our friends.

In the coming weeks, we will be getting ready for our ‘Show and Tell’ Assessment Task in Week Nine by practicing how to speak in front of an audience. We have begun discussing the item that we could bring to school in a ‘Memory Box’.

Each day, we practice the Phonic Concepts we’re learning for the week and revisit the previous weeks as well. We are developing our independence by writing our spelling words in our PLD Workbook daily and completing an activity using our spelling words. We are working on correctly forming lower- and upper-case letters to ensure our handwriting is neat and legible. We are doing our best to become proficient readers by practicing our reading each day and are showing an understanding of what we have read by drawing pictures related to the text.

Angela Brennan, Mark Brennan, Brook Marquart

Year One Teachers