Year 1

Year 1 has enjoyed a multitude of exciting and engaging learning experiences. Starting our Term 2 Integrated Unit off with an incursion, we swapped our pencils for hammers and became little woodworkers. We learnt about different physical changes that can happen to materials. We took our construction skills back inside the classroom and learnt how to construct a narrative that would captivate our readers with a sizzling start. Writing also became a lot of fun when we learnt the importance of giving clear instructions when we wrote a recipe for Miss Brown, teaching her how to make fairy bread. Next, we celebrated Book Week 2022 with the theme ‘Dreaming With Our Eyes Open’, bringing to life our favourite book characters that we often love to dream of. After that, we were back in reality and took to the skies to visit the infamous Australian landmark, the Eureka Skydeck. The students looked out of the glass windows of Level 88 and searched high and low for the natural and man-made features of Melbourne CBD. Falling in love with the beauty of our fascinating landscapes, we ventured back to school to admire the natural features of our school and began to observe the changes of the seasons, writing exquisite poetry about our own experiences with nature in the form of Haiku and Acrostic.

In Year 1, we are role models to the Preps and continue to grow and learn about how we can be better each and every day. In Year 1 we read The Word Collector and sought out kind words that we could say to each other. At Camberwell Grammar, the Year 1s know that our school motto is ‘By Our Deeds May We Be Known’ and therefore we learnt many new ways that we could show kindness and respect to our peers. Throughout all of these experiences, we were lucky enough to have our Year 5 Buddies as role models, showing us the ropes and helping lead us on our learning journey at Camberwell Grammar in our Buddy Program.

Miss Madison Brown

Year 1 Teacher

1 Eureka Skydeck Excursion

My favourite experience in Year 1 has been going to Eureka Skydeck because it only took 38 seconds to get to level 88. Plus, it is very high. It is about 325 or 328 metres or something. I did an activity about landmarks. It was really fun.

Anderson Gu

My favourite experience was the Eureka Skydeck because I had a very, very, very fun experience.

Kendrick Jiang

My favourite experience in Year 1 has been the Eureka Skydeck. I liked it because I like to see trains.

Nathan Chen

My favourite experience in Year 1 is the Eureka Skydeck because I loved looking at the different landmarks in Melbourne.

Maximus Xu

I liked the Eureka Skydeck because there were lots of landmarks. It also had lots of gold. I liked its design and it had 88 levels. Our ears popped at level 88!

Daniel Wang

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We all loved teaching Miss Brown how to make Fairy Bread.

Left to Right (Liam Zhang, Victor Huang, Henry Ku)

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2 Woodwork Incursion

My favourite experience in Year 1 has been woodwork. I liked it because we got to make car monsters. Also because we got to use cool tools and I learnt that you have to wear safety goggles.

Michael Wong

My favourite experience in Year 1 has been the woodwork because I learnt how to use a hammer safely and hammering nails in wood.

Raymond Shi

3 Writing in Year 1

NATURE HAIKU

My favourite experience in Year 1 was when we wrote a nature Haiku poem. It was a challenge for me and made me think out of my comfort zone. I loved it because I needed five syllables on the first line, seven on the other and finally five on the last. Finally, I loved being outside in the nature of our garden and writing about it.

Jasper Sham

My favourite experience in Year 1 is narrative writing because I can learn how to write a sizzling start and making my writing more interesting.

Lucas Zhang

4 Collecting Kind Words

I am a kind word collector

Victor Huang

5 Book Week

My favourite experience in Year 1 was Book Week. We all got dressed up. There were bizarre, curious, and incredible costumes! I went as Tashi. I had to take my hat off in the car because it wouldn’t even fit. My BFF Henry went as Harry Potter. And that’s my fantastic Book Week.

William Chen-Low

6 Year 5 Buddies

My favourite experience in Year 1 has been buddies. Because my buddy helps me do my work. He is kind and he lets me decide where to work.

Reid Battye

My favourite thing I have done in Year 1 is gratitude flowers. Because I like the way I work with my buddy. I like working with him.

Liam Zhang