1C – Word Wizards at Work

In English, 1C have been exploring how narratives work and how authors engage their audience. Students are learning to identify key narrative features, explain a story’s purpose and audience, and use time connectives to sequence events clearly. They are developing creative solutions to solve problems in their writing and are strengthening their use of simple and compound sentences to make their stories flow. Using storyboards to plan and feedback to edit, students are now composing and publishing their own imaginative texts. Take a look at our wonderful narratives!

In phonics and spelling, we have been learning about the kn and gn letter combinations and how they include silent letters. The students especially enjoyed discovering why these letters are silent and exploring the history behind them! We have also been practising segmenting words, which is a fantastic strategy to support spelling. Students have been counting phonemes (the sounds in words) as well as syllables. Ask your child to show you how they segment words at home, they’ve become experts!