Grade 1/2

Religious Education Unit

Concept: Invitation

Core Catholic Social Teaching: Human Dignity

Spiritual Capability: Connecting with the Heart

For Christians, the Bible has stories about God’s love, the life of Jesus and the call to love.

Scripture, Israel and Jesus

• I can retell some stories about Jesus and God’s love  from the New Testament.
• I can explain how the stories show God’s love.
• Bible stories can show Christians how to love others.

God, religion and Society

Christians believe in one God who is named as Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit

• I can link the sign of the cross with a Christian understanding of God.
• I can explain why the ritual of the Sign of the Cross is important for Catholic Christians.

 

Christians know they are invited into celebrating this loving relationship with God

I can name God as Trinity as an important belief for Christians.

Numeracy Focus

What will Grade 1/2 be learning in Numeracy this term?

Number and Algebra

Fractions

Grade 1

I can share a collection of readily available materials into two equal portions

I can split an object into two equal pieces and describing how the pieces are equal

Grade 2

I can recognise and interpret common uses of halves, quarters and eighths of shapes and collections

Revise addition and subtraction

Grade 1

• I can represent and solve simple addition and subtraction problems using a range of strategies including counting on, tens facts, partitioning and re-arranging parts.

Grade 2

• I can explore the connection between addition and subtraction.
• I can solve simple addition and subtraction problems using a range of efficient mental and written strategies.

Revise multiplication and division

Grade 1

• Represent practical situations that model sharing.

Grade 2

• Recognise and represent multiplication as repeated addition, groups and arrays. 
• Recognise and represent division as grouping into equal sets and solve simple problems using these representations.

Revise Place Value

Grade 1

• I can develop confidence with number sequences to and from 100 by ones from any starting point.
• Skip count by twos, fives and tens starting from zero.
• I can recognise, model, read, write and order numbers to at least 100.
• Locate these numbers on a number line.

Grade 2

• I can investigate number sequences, initially those increasing and decreasing by twos, threes, fives and ten from any starting point, then moving to other sequences.
• I can recognise, model, represent and order numbers to at least 1000.
• I can group, partition and rearrange collections up to 1000 in hundreds, tens and ones to facilitate more efficient counting.

Measurement and Geometry

Location and Transformation

Grade 1

• I can give and follow directions to familiar locations 

Grade 2

• I can interpret simple maps of familiar locations and identify the relative positions of key features 

Capacity/Mass

Grade 1 

• I can measure and compare the lengths, masses and capacities of pairs of objects using uniform informal units 

Grade 2

• I can compare masses of objects using balance scales

Time

Grade 1

• I can describe duration using months, weeks, days and hours 
• I can tell the time to the half hour on an analogue and digital clocks.

Grade 2 

• I can name and order months and seasons
• I can use a calendar to identify the date and determine the number of days in each month
• I can tell the time to the quarter hour on an analogue and digital clocks.

Integrated Inquiry - Our Place in Space

I can:

• locate states/capitals on maps
• recognise Australia on a globe/map
• locate and recognise our local area
• recognise main geographical features of Australia

Literacy

OLSAL

Phonemic Awareness/Vocab (adverbs) Chart/Complex Sentences/Genre Grammar

VCOP

Vocabulary, Connections, Openers, Punctuation charts and warm-up games and activities

Grade 1 Genre: Narrative/Christmas Writing

Editing

Punctuation

Text structure (orientation, body and conclusion of 4 or more sequenced ideas). 

Interactive/Modelled Writing

• I can create familiar text types in shared or independent writing by drawing on details of characters, repeated phrases and similar vocabulary encountered in known texts

Grade 2 Genre Persuasive/Christmas writing

• I can create short imaginative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences. 
• I can create familiar text types in shared or independent writing by drawing on details of characters, repeated phrases and similar vocabulary encountered in known texts

Hand Writing

I can form letters using correct formation - beginning in the right places and going the right direction, - revise spacing of words, pencil grip

18mm dotted thirds - using dotted thirds correctly. 

u letter family.

Respectful Relationships

Respectful Relationships:

Topic 5: Stress Management

Topic 6: Help Seeking

Relationships and Sexuality:

Theme 5: Taking Care Online and Off

Visual Arts

Our Art Show is in Week 3 of this term!  

We can't wait to share our artwork with you!

Indonesian

• I can present factual information at word and simple sentence level, such as lists or labels
• I can read texts with the teacher and peers
• I can present factual information at word and simple sentence level by descriptions and sharing/news reports, relying on formulaic language and modelled examples
• I can use the pronoun kamu

 

Book Week was lots of fun!