Welcome to the Aroha Syndicate page, featuring Year 1 children from Rooms 4a, 9 and 10.
In the Aroha Syndicate we are learning about Jesus. This we week we have been learning about the clothes Jesus might have worn and how they are similar and different to the clothes we wear.
We also tried on some clothes like Jesus might have worn and learnt their names: tunic, mantle, girdle and sandals.
Here are some photos of us trying on the clothes:
This term the Aroha Syndicate are learning all about Seasons. We have been finding out what we know about Seasons and what we want to find out next. We have been writing stories about the different Seasons and using leaves to make art.
Here is some of our descriptive writing about Autumn:
The Autumn leaves are falling quickly down from the trees and the wind is spinning. The wind is making the leaves wrinkly. The Autumn leaves look like burning fire.
Eldon
The Autumn leaves are like the colours of fire; orange, red and golden. The colours slowly change to brown and yellow. It is like a carrot on the ground around the tree. It is going to turn brown on the ground.
Rochelle
We collected Autumn leaves around the school. Then we put them under paper and made rubbings with crayons. Here we are hard at work:
On Friday 31st of March the Aroha Syndicate took part in the Runathon.
Over the last couple of weeks we have been practising jogging around the field. Each day we tried to increase the number of laps we could run.
On the day we tried our best to keep jogging at a good pace for the whole seven minutes! Here are some photos of us taking part:
After the Runathon we were hot and tired so enjoyed our ice blocks!
Thank you to all our families who came to support us on the day. A big thank you to all the people who have sponsored us!
Last Wednesday the Aroha Syndicate visited the Zoo for our Big Zoo Animals Topic.
We were greeted by John the Zoo Keeper who talked about keeping safe at the zoo. While we were listening we saw the elephants going for their morning walk with some of the keepers.
John took us through to the African Safari walk to look at the giraffes. He showed us a giraffe’s teeth and told us lots of interesting facts about giraffes.
Then we continued to the meerkats to learn more.
We saw lots of different animals and learnt lots about their habitats.
What a fantastic day of learning we had!
This term there will be lots of exiting learning happening in the Aroha Syndicate. We are learning how to be ‘sunsmart’, about large zoo animals and about Advent and Christmas.
Our ‘umbrella’ topic for this term is Transformation as the time of year changes from Ordinary Time, to Advent and then Christmas in our Catholic Calendar.
Here are our learning outcomes for the first six weeks of term. We sent home a paper copy of these outcomes last week in the children’s book bags.
Assessment
| Science:
Understand the processes of life and appreciate the diversity of living things. |
Maths:
AO: Know the forward and backward counting sequences of whole numbers to 100. Communicate and explain counting, grouping, and equal-sharing strategies, using words, numbers, and pictures. |
Written language:
AO: Ideas • Form and express ideas on a range of topics. – forms and expresses simple ideas and information, usually drawing from personal experience and knowledge; – begins to support ideas with some detail. |
Reading:
AO: Acquire and begin to use sources of information, processes, and strategies to identify, form, and express ideas. Indicators: associates sounds with letter clusters as well as with individual letters; uses processing and some comprehension strategies with some confidence |
Health:
AO: Describe and use safe practices in a range of contexts and identify people who can help. |
Physical Education:
Develop a wide range of movement skills, using a variety of equipment and play environments. |
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| Children can name main body parts of a large animal. Children can talk about an animal’s habitat and explain why it is suited to that animal. |
Children can solve addition and subtraction problems by counting on or back from the highest number e.g.
11 + 4 …12,13,14,15 45+ 3… 46,47,48 67-5..66,65,64,63,62 e.g 10+4=14 7+5=12 15+5=20 2+7=9 e.g. What number comes before 40? What number comes after 40? |
Children can write a description with an introductory sentence and personal comment at the end.
E.g. The sun is a bright star that shines during the day. It is burning hot. It is looks like a big yellow ball. It is high up in the sky. The sun helps the plants to grow and gives us light. I know the sun is important to us because… e.g When I am at the beach I wear a sunhat because it protects me from the sun. I wear my sunhat and put sunscreen on my body so I can be sunsmart. |
Children can answer questions about the stories they are reading using: who, when, where, what, why and how. Children can segment all the sounds in 4 sound words e.g. Sun – s-u-n Tiger – t-i-g-er |
Children can name three ways to protect themselves from the sun.
e.g wear a sunhat, wear sunscreen, cover up, wear sun glasses e.g keeps us hydrated, helps our brain to work, gives us energy |
Children can roll and trap a small ball Children can throw and catch an underarm throw using a small ball. |
Over the next week Room 1 are in charge of the Office foyer display. We decided to display some of our self-portraits we have been working on this term.
We used vivid permanent markers on clear plastic to trace over the lines of our photographs. We looked for different lines and shapes in our faces. We worked slowly and carefully.
Then we painted cereal boxes and used sponges to make patterns. Mrs Roberts cut a hole in the front of the boxes to make our shadow boxes. We stuck our photo in the back and our self-portraits in the front.
Please come and see our display in the Office foyer!
