Over the last two weeks, Year 1 have been investigating the need for instructions and procedures in our everyday lives. We have spent some time brainstorming all the different places we see instructions or steps to do things and have experimented with following some tricky procedures and we have been writing our very own.

Last week we were introduced to the ‘olden day’ game of Hopscotch. We spent some time reading and trying to comprehend the procedure of how to play, and then enjoyed some time experimenting and practising what we had learnt.

It was a pleasure to see the boys keen to play Hopscotch at recess and lunch and even more exciting, was watching some Year 1 boys trying to teach the Kindergarten boys how to play.

Throughout the week, the boys were presented with a big blue bag full of things that were going to be used to make something yummy. We found bananas, honey, milk, a blender, a knife, a plate and some cups. We made the most beautiful banana and honey smoothies and wrote our own procedures to match.

We also had a wonderful but challenging time following some visual instructions from a clip on You Tube. We had a go at creating our own funny paper frog faces and then began to write our own instruction booklet to give to another class to use. We are all looking forward to seeing if our instructions are clear enough for others to follow!

Mrs Gaspersic

Year 1 Teacher

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