Year 1/2C

In our first lesson to introduce the concept of length we looked at the perimeter of 2D surfaces around the classroom. 1/2c discovered that to calculate the perimeter of any 2D surface, we must use equal units as demonstrated in the above images. Students then use their knowledge of addition to add the units forming each side together to gain the perimeter.

1/2c have been exploring poetry over the last three weeks and how to express themselves through word play.  We’ve all had lots of fun listening to some very imaginative verses with rhyming words and, this past week, have turned our Beret’s eastwards towards the Japanese art of Haiku – a contemplative, more reflective form of poetry based on a specific syllable pattern.

We have been learning that fractions are made up of EQUAL parts. In today’s lesson we had to circle shapes that were shaded in halves and tick those shapes that were shaded in quarters. It was a bit tricky because we needed to make sure that every shape was equally split into halves and quarters. When we finished, we then worked on some word questions to show how to divide groups of items into halves. We also demonstrated our understanding of fractions by drawing lines on a diagram of a muesli bar to show two different ways that the bar could be sliced into thirds.

Afterwards, Miss Board got handy with her knife skills and did a great job at slicing apples into halves, thirds, quarters and even eighths!  Woohoo!

 This term the 1/2C classroom has been very busy learning how to use mental calculation strategies to add two digit numbers together. One of these strategies is to add according to place value whereby we separate the tens from the ones column.

‘Harlee and I were working on chunking numbers. Once we finished we had to split our numbers into groups of 33 and 23. To make 33 and 23 we split it into 20 and 3 and 30 and 3.’ Charlotte

‘Last week we made cats and dogs. It took us four weeks. On the first week we made it with a roll of cardboard and newspaper. The second and third week we used papier mache. The last week we painted it.’ Ryan and Ege.

During term 3, we were fortunate to read a story about a gifted young girl by the name of Emily who had an extraordinary gift – an eye on the end of her finger!  Emily struggled with being different but then came to accept her

uniqueness when she discovered that her third eye could help her to solve mysteries, see around corners, rescue friends and catch dangerous criminals.

1/2C were most fortunate to see a production of Emily Eyefinger staged by the monkee baa theatre company at The Lighthouse Theatre. The performance sure provided the audience a few laughs and a couple of frights too!! The following morning, students wrote a recount about their experience at the theatre with the main focus on using the 5W’s (Who, What, When, Where and Why?) and correct punctuation.

‘We made an eyefinger protector because Emily was born with an eye on her finger. We made it and put it on her finger to stop sand and rocks getting in her eye. We all went to the Lighthouse Theatre to see Emily on the stage and it was cool to watch her.’ Shaylah.

‘At Art I made a bird. I made it out of clay, feathers, paint and string.

My bird’s name is Rosey and she is a girl. My bird’s favourite colour is pink.’  Anzyha.

‘We were learning about how to tell time. We learnt what half past, quarter past and quarter to means on clocks.  We made our own clocks.  We now know that the long hand is the minute hand and goes from 1 to 60 and the short hand is the hour hand and goes from 1 to 12.’ Klara.

This fun inventing task connected with the story The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch by Rhonda and David Armitage. Students were required to work in groups to design and construct a floating lunchbox to solve the problem of pesky seagulls eating the lighthouse keeper’s lunch. The students used some recycled materials and other items brought in from home.

‘We had to make boats so the lighthouse keeper’s lunch would be delivered. We had to make boats because of the seagull’s eating his lunch and we made our boats from recycled materials.’ Tom.