Term Three Learning Outcomes

In the classroom, the children are learning to:

Mathematics Skills

Pre Primary

• Count forward in sequence to 100.
• Counts backwards from 20.
• Use the strategy ‘counting on’. 
• Read numerals, identifies numerals and matches to quantities 0-20.
• Count each object once only.
• Compare collections according to quantity i.e. ‘more’, ‘less’, ‘same as’, ‘not the same as’. 
• Sort and classify familiar objects and explains the basis for these classifications.
• Model adding and sharing using a variety of practical strategies.
• Add and subtract small quantities.
• Know and use ordinal numbers to 10^th.
• Change collections to make number bonds to 10.
• Describe position and movement i.e. in front, behind, next to, under, on, in, between, forwards, backwards and towards.
• Follow and give simple directions to guide a friend around an obstacle path. 
• Use direct comparison to decide which is longer, heavier or holds more.
• Use everyday language associated with measurement attributes. 
• Use indirect comparison to decide which is longer, heavier or holds more.
• Identify the days of the week and link to specific familiar events.
• Name 3D shapes – sphere, cube.
• Sort 2D and 3D shapes.
• Answer yes or no to questions to collect information.
• Pose questions about themselves, events and familiar objects.
• Represent responses using simple displays, including grouping students according to their answers.
• Use data displays to answer simple questions.

Year One

• Orally count to 200 and from 100 from any starting point.
• Orally count from 0 by 2s to 100.
• Know and use ordinal numbers from 1st to 31st.
• Identify odd and even numbers to 20. 
• Read and understand basic facts to 20 (addition and subtraction).
• Represent and solve simple addition and subtraction problems to 30 using concrete materials, illustrations, counting on, counting back and number bonds. 
• Count collections to 100 or more by partitioning numbers using place value.
• Accurately share and group objects equally.
• Understand and describe the concept of one-half as part of a whole.
• Measure and compare length, capacity, area and mass of pairs of objects using uniform informal units.
• Tell the time (hour and half hour).
• Give and follow specific directions to familiar locations (positional words, clockwise/anticlockwise).
• Identify outcomes of familiar events involving chance and describe them using everyday language such as “will happen”, “won’t happen” or “might happen”.
• Choose simple questions and gathering responses to collect data.
• Draw simple data displays.
• Represent data with objects and drawings (one to one correspondence). 

English Skills

Pre Primary

• Listen, respond to and join in with rhymes, poems, chants and songs.
• Ask and answers questions to clarify understanding.
• Recognise 100 high frequency words.
• Identify question marks, exclamation marks, bold print, full stops, speech marks and commas.
• Explain capital letters are for names and the beginning of a sentence.
• Explain that full stops signal the end of a sentence.
• Sequence events and everyday happenings.
• Identify the title, author, word, letter, space and page.
• Discuss characters and main events in imaginative texts.
• Differentiate between fiction and non-fiction texts.
• Spell 50 high frequency words.
• Write one or more simple sentences to retell events and experiences.

 Year One

• Identify split digraphs, which is when ‘Bossy e’ bosses the vowel to say its name (a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e and u-e).
• Recognise the first 200 high frequency words (fast and consistent).
• Use nouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives correctly in sentences.
• Become aware of homographs and homophones.
• Spell the first 150 high frequency words.
• Write narratives, with neat writing and approximately one page in length.
• Use full stops, capital letters, question marks and exclamation marks appropriately.
• Apply basic proof reading and editing skills.
• Recreate texts imaginatively using performances and digital forms of communication.

Kind regards

Miss Ryan