Year 1 Update – Wk 32
This week in Year 1 has been busy with many activities sponsored by Year 6 Exhibition groups. A group visited classrooms and asked students to pledge not to bully children, and a group offered games and a talk on cyber security in the PMP room during play time. There was also a food drive, and a chance to eat lunch while blindfolded with a group advocating for rights of the blind. It has been a very insightful week!
We have also been busy making artwork to share on Sharing Day!
The Pigeon – Ally Lee
How We Express Ourselves
Central Idea: People Can Share Stories In Different Ways To Communicate
This week 1F and 1T made characters out of clay, while 1G will make characters next week. We have also spent some extra time focussing on fairy tales and traditional stories. Classes have also made giant story maps, painted spoon characters, and talked about using symbols to tell stories.
We have also spent some time focussing on the elements of a story, like characters, setting, conflict, and resolution. We looked into what stories we like and found that stories are more interesting when there is a problem to solve, and not when new characters are added in every scene.
Captain Underpants – James Borg
Central Idea: Fractions are a way of representing part of a whole
To start with fractions, we talked about what a half means. Numbers can have a half, shapes can have a half, as well as groups of objects. Children worked to distribute groups of objects into halves, and to find half of a given number. Learning doubles in addition is a valuable way to relate to halves!
Children also worked through story problems in which groups of cookies or other objects had to be distributed evenly between two or more people. Practise dividing your dinners up evenly! If there are 12 cookies for dessert, how many does each family member get? What about a plate of bok choy? What could you do to make sure everyone gets the same number of pieces? How would you start?
Phonics
We will continue with our Unit 6 phonemes. Please help us at home by playing the games on the Unit 6 Phonic Bookmark.
1F – Anna Netz
1G – Gavin Yao
1H – Jasmine Ng
Yearbook Cover Competition! There’s an opportunity for even a Year 1 student to design the Yearbook cover. It should have 2015-16, BHS, The Beacon, and a design. Good luck!
Photo Competition! In this your competition your child needs to take a photo of objects or an event which show the title of the book. This photo should be emailed to Ms Jeves, with the child’s name, class and the title of the book as the subject header. jevese2@beaconhill.edu.hk Closing date will be Friday 6th May, with the best entries being shown in assembly.
