Father's Day

Year One welcomed their dads, grandads, uncles and other special men in their lives into their classrooms on Friday 30th September. 

We presented our dads with a special medal to remind them they are #1!

Click here for photos from our Father's Day celebration.

Can you find an object in your home that has a heavier mass than a pencil? 

Year One's Excursion to Warragamba Dam

Click on the link below to view some photos from our excursion to Warragamba Dam!

Warragamba Dam Photos

Read-a-thon!

On Friday, Year One participated in Bethany's awesome 

Read-a-thon!  We got to visit each of the Year One 

classrooms, listen to some great stories and choose 

different activities to do.

Some of the things we were able to choose were:

Making bug and spider bookmarks
Sequencing the story using a storyboard
Using the iPads to listen to the stories and use the app StoryKit to write and draw our own bug story

Using collage materials to create a habitat for our bugs

Following written instructions to draw our own ladybugs

Look how much fun we had!!

  

Remember to bring in your Read-a-thon 

sponsorship cards and money for your chance 

to win some great raffle prizes!

Also, if you want a chance to win Sassoon or 

Sassoon's babies, remember to buy some 

raffle tickets - 50c each or 3 for $1.

It's almost time for 

Bethany's 

Read-a-thon!!!

We will be participating in lots of fun activities on Friday, 14th June as we take part in Bethany's Read-a-thon!  

If there are any mums, dads, grandparents or friends that would like to help 

Year One during the Read-a-thon on Friday, 

please let the teachers know - we would love your help!

Stay tuned for some photos and worksamples from our Read-a-thon!

Volume and capacity - dumping or packing? That is the question...

1B were looking at the concepts of volume and capacity. We were measuring the volume and capacity of different objects with cubes, water, dice and rice. 1B need to know though - is dumping or packing the best way to measure the volume and capacity of an object?

We think packing is the best way because you won't leave gaps or have any overflow, therefore it is a true measurement.

Counting Collections

In Maths, we have been practising counting collections of objects in efficient ways. 

In Kindy we used to count by ones, but now we can count by twos, fives and tens!

Can you count by twos? 
Is there a more efficient way to count the pop sticks?

Can you count by tens?
How quickly can you count these counters?

What is the quickest way to count these counters?
By tens?  Or is there another way?

How could you count these blocks efficiently?
Are there five in each group?

Year One 2013

Welcome to Year One's blog! 

You will find information here about what we are learning about and 

what's going on in our classrooms.  You will also find photos of us and 

our work!  Make sure you check back regularly to see what we have been up to.  

Feel free to comment on any posts and we will read them in class!  

We love hearing how great we are!