What’s Happening in Week 9

Inquiry learning experiences: 

"How messages can be conveyed through stories" 

Students can engage in the following provocations:

•        Cultural Stories – Listening Posts, re-telling stories (through creating comic strips, picture books, story books) and recording and creating their own listening post, engaging in readers theatre plays, creating masks and costumes to embody the characters within the plays.
•         The Seed Story – Observation, classification and documentation of natural objects, creating a mural – linking into nature stories, researching science facts about plants and creating botanical drawings.
•         World Stories – Finding places using Google Earth and then writing and drawing about a favourite place which has been found. Then moving towards writing a report on a particular country using factual information.
•        Year 1 Movie – Using Audacity to record your voice practicing the movie script and using mood and emotion to creating music for the movie using Garageband.

Numeracy learning experiences: 
Addition and subtraction stories:

•         Creating maths narratives and solving them by using number sentences (e.g. 10–6=4). Looking at the language used in maths.
•         Counting On – using ten frames to count on from a particular number (e.g. 3 and 5 more make 8) and specifically using them to count on from larger numbers (e.g. 9 and 3 more is 12).
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Literacy learning experiences: 

•         Guided Reading
•         Literature Study – Cultural stories: Focus Aesop fables
•         Independent Literature Study – Engaging in Reading Response experiences
•         Shared Reading – Procedural Text ‘How to make a Mask’
•         Writing Target – Logical Problems in Storytelling
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Week Ahead

Monday 
Inquiry (9-11am & 12-2pm - Parent helpers welcome)
Visual Art (All home groups)

Tuesday
Inquiry (9-11am & 12-2pm - Parent helpers welcome)

Wednesday
Inquiry (9-11am & 12-2pm - Parent helpers welcome)

Thursday
Inquiry (12-2pm - Parent helpers welcome)

PE and Italian (1S & 1N)
Music workshops

Friday 
Inquiry (9-11am - Parent helpers welcome)
PE and Italian (1T & 1H)

Assembly in the gym at 3pm

STUDENTS ARE TO BE PICKED UP FROM THE YEAR ONE NEIGHBOURHOOD AT 3:30PM.