A recap of Term 2, Week 2 in Upper 1st

English: We are reading Are We There Yet, and we focused on the section about ‘The Top End’. To complement this we read the picture book, To the Top End by Roland Harvey. We focused
on visual literacy and reading the pictures. The children wrote about a waterhole and a lake in writing this week. We revised the suffixes –est, -er, -ing, ed and plurals during spelling
and reading this week.
Maths: This week we focused on o’clock, half past and quarter past, and quarter to on both analog and digital clocks. We will continue to revise these times next week.
Science: This week we made mini models of The Water Cycle which are displayed on our classroom windows. We also learnt about the history of weather and forecasting together with the different instruments used to measure the weather (such as rain, wind and temperature).
Geography: The children learned all about Darwin this week. They

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