Year 1 Term 4 Overview 2022
Term overview
Welcome back! We trust you all had a fabulous holiday and that your child is ready for an even more exciting and action packed second half of Year One. Like any other term, we encourage our Year Ones to be more independent than they were in Prep, but now that we are in our second semester of Year One (and so close to Year Two), it’s really important that our students are independent in everything they do. This means putting their own bags on the rack, their own lunchboxes and drinks bottles in the fridge, and remembering to bring their library books and homework folders in without blaming Mum or Dad for forgetting!
Attendance
It is imperative that your child is at school every day unless they are sick. If your child is absent for any reason, please let the office know via a letter, phone call or email (even if you have already let the teacher know). It is also important that they be at school by 8:50am at the latest so they can be ready to start the day by 9am sharp.
Late Arrivals
Our rolls need to be marked by 9:05am each morning, if you are arriving after 9:05am please ensure that you get a late slip for your child from the office as teachers are unable to change their roll once it’s marked. On mornings where students have specialist lessons, teachers mark the roll right on 9am in order to get students to their specialist lesson on time. Please be aware of these days and sign them in at the office if you are arriving late. If for whatever reason you are picking your child up earlier than 3pm, you will need to sign them out at the office first and then give the early departure slip to the teacher when you go to pick them up
Breakfast Club
Breakfast is such an important meal in a child’s day, it provides your brain with fuel. Without breakfast children find it very had to concentrate. On a Monday, Wednesday and Friday, near the hall, from 8:15 till 8:45 we have some amazing volunteers who run a breakfast club for the students. No money required just a smiling face and your best manners.
Attendance
How to report an absence:
- Email attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au or
- Call the school's absence line on 4057 1444, then press #1 and don't forget to leave a reason why your child/children are away, or
- Send a note to the classroom teacher on their return
Our schools attendance target is 95%
Reading / Spelling
Our school is implementing a systematic synthetic phonics approach that has a teaching sequence for reading and spelling which goes across the entire school. Promoting Literacy Development or PLD for short, provides teachers with an innovative, evidence-based approach to literacy and advocates that children’s literacy and learning outcomes are maximized when the areas of literacy, oral language and movement & motor skills are simultaneously targeted. With this change, we will be working with decodable texts instead of predictable texts in the teaching of reading.
Due to this change, home reading will look different as well. Students may come home with games with high frequency words or sounds instead of home readers. This is reading practice. Please be assured that students will be getting a much higher level of reading mileage at school every day.
English
Retell of an imaginative text
This term, students listen to, read and view a variety of imaginative stories in order to analyse, explain and retell the story. The assessment task for this unit will require students to write a retell of a familiar imaginative story. This involves students writing the beginning of the story outlining the setting and characters. Then the middle of the story, which details the complication and the end of the story which details the resolution to the complication. Parents you can assist your child with this task by talking about the beginning, complication and resolution when reading bedtime stories or even with their home readers. You can also assist by practicing the spelling of common words for example: - and, when, this, them, the, was, went, like, from.
Character Description
Students in the 1/2 composite class will be engaged in creating a character description using writing and images. They will write about the characters, focusing on the development from the beginning of the book to the end. Content will be targetted at both year 1 and 2 levels.
Maths
This term children will be consolidating areas such as counting patterns in 2s, 5s and 10s. We will be learning about measuring length and capacity. We will be continuing to learn about telling time to the hour and half hour. There will be more investigation into solving addition and subtraction problems and we will continue to learn about Australian coins. Assessment this term is based on measurement, number, coins and time.
Students in the 1/2 composite class will be focused on the following content, this will be targetted at both year 1 and 2 levels:
- measuring using informal units
- exploring time duration and telling time
- understanding number sequences
- recognising Australian coins
Science
Living Adventure
This term students will be learning about the links between animals and the environments in which they live and how these environments meet their needs. They will be comparing the difference between health and unhealthy habitats. They will be learning about how to care for environments and how environments change over time.
Look! Listen!
Students in the 1/2 composite class will be engaged in a unit that focuses on sound and light.
Look! Listen! Primary Connections – students will understand:
- What sound is
- What light is
- How sound travels
- How light travels
Students will participate in a guided investigation designing a toy that makes sound, and describe the effects of interacting with it. Content will be targetted at both year 1 and 2 levels.
HASS
My changing world
This term, students will investigate a local place to identify and describe its features, the activities that occur there, how the place changes and ways to care for it.
Importance of places
Students in the 1/2 composite class will learn about the importance of place through exploring their local community, conducting a historic inquiry and investigate a significant site in a local community. Content will be targetted at both year 1 and 2 levels.
HPE
In PE, students in year one will explore a range of dancers from around the world. In Health, students will identify personal hygiene habits and actions that help keep them healthy. Students will examine the 'Australian Guide to Healthy Eating' to make healthy food choices and will identify ways to keep their bodies physically active.
Students in the 1/2 composite class will be engaged in the theme of this unit however content will be targetted at both year 1 and 2 levels.
Music
In this unit, students will learn to move and perform with beat and tempo. They will learn dances to develop body control and movements. Students will practice singing songs as well as listen and analyse music of different cultural back grounds. Also they will consolidate knowledge of solfa notes – C, E, G and A.
Students in the 1/2 composite class will be engaged in the theme of this unit however content will be targetted at both year 1 and 2 levels.
Drama
Toyworld
In this unit students explore the world of toys through improvisation, movement and storytelling. They will base a character on their favourite toy and bring it to life!
Students in the 1/2 composite class will be engaged in the theme of this unit however content will be targetted at both year 1 and 2 levels.
Assessment Schedule
| Learning area | UNIT OUTLINE | TASK | DUE DATE |
MATHS | Money Measurement - Length and capacity Explaining durations of time & telling time Understanding number sequences 1/2 composite class will follow the same due date sequence for this learning area | Written | Week 2 & 4 Week 6 Week 8 |
SCIENCE | How to care for environments and how environments change over time 1/2 composite class will follow the same due date sequence for this learning area | Written | Week 6 |
Geography | Part A – Features of a local place Part B – Caring for a local place Part C – Location and direction 1/2 composite class will follow the same due date sequence for this learning area | Written | Week 5/6 Week 9/10 Term 3 week 5 |
ENGLISH | Students will write a retell of a familiar imaginative story Reading comprehension 1/2 composite class will follow the same due date sequence for this learning area | Written | Week 9/10 |
HPE | Health - my classsroom is healthy, safe and active PE - Equipped to move | Written Practical | Week 10 Week 7 & 8 |
MUSIC | Sing and play on glockenspiel the song ‘Rain, rain’ with lyrics and solfa. | Practical | Week 7 & 8 |
DRAMA | Students bring their favourite toy to life using their voice and body. | Practical | Term 4 Week 5 |
Contact information
Contact your childs teacher via email:
1A Christine Abood - caboo4@eq.edu.au
1B Shannon Hanley - shanl17@eq.edu.au
1C Sharyn Yeabsley - syeab2@eq.edu.au
1D - Ashlee Lankinen - alank0@eq.edu.au
1/2 Lauren Shouldice - lrsho0@eq.edu.au