1 Jun 2018

Yr1 Curriculum Update – 01/06/18

Working together to achieve success for every child

 

Greetings! – It’s our 19th edition!

We write a regular newsletter keeping you up-to-date and informed about your child’s learning. This will provide you with a good understanding of happenings in Year 1 and how you can support these learning experiences.

 

Sharing the Planet:  Transdisciplinary Learning – it’s all connected !

This week, the students have started their learning journeys, inquiring into the central idea, ‘Scientists observe and classify in order to understand more about living things.’ The school excursion provocation to Kadoorie Farm provided students with plentiful learning opportunities to question, explore and wonder, supporting their curiosity of how all living organisms can be classified into groups according to their features. Consequently, students have started to use their skills of observation, noting changes and connections between these living things in their literacy-based report writing.

Within Maths, students continue to solve addition and subtraction problems using different concrete materials and strategies. Part of this learning process involves supporting students understanding of how they can use these materials and explicitly teaching how to apply different strategies (e.g. part whole, counting on, doubling, etc). Subsequently, students are now taking ownership of their work and deciding which calculation strategies work best for them in achieving success.

 

School Dental Care Service 2018 – arranged by Department of Health

Date                                       Appointment Time                         Class

05/06/18                                10.20 – 11.30                                    1W

08/06/18                                09.50 – 11.00                                    1B

12/06/18                                10.20 – 11.30                                    1S

14/06/18                                10.20 – 11.30                                    1T

19/06/18                                9.10 – 10.30                                      1H

A round-trip bus will be arranged by school. If you wish to accompany your child for the dental treatment, you are welcome to meet your child at the dental clinic:

J.C. School Dental Clinic

3/F, 147J Argyle Street.

Children are required to bring a toothbrush to school on the day of the visit.

 

Suggestions for supporting learning at home

Look at photographs of how you have grown and changed, comparing these to how your child has grown and changed. If you have a pet, observe it and discuss the characteristics which make it a living creature.

Visit the library to find books on a favourite animal and help your child identify important facts and vocabulary about the animal

Watch different videos via Youtube about the lives of plants and animals.

https://www.youtube.com/user/BBCEarth

 

 

Monday 18th June

Dragon Boat Festival (no school) 

Friday 29th June

End of term (12pm finish) 

Photo Stories

We hope that the pictures we add to our curriculum update each week will help you to make connections to the information shared above and to give you an insight into our week in Year 1

Photos taken from the Year 1 Sharing the Planet Celebration of Learning. For additional photos, please access the KJS Facebook page.