Integrated- What we have been up to:

Our 2024 school year is drawing to a close and we are very much looking forward to celebrating our learning with you all at “The Year 1/2 Book Launch”!

Students have shown open mindedness and resilience during our transition sessions over the past few weeks. These sessions help us to get familiar with a new group of students and a new space so that we can transition as smoothly as possible into our new classes next year. See you all there!

Maths:

Over the last two weeks the 1/2 students have been deepening their understanding of place value. Students have been asked open ended questions so they can use their place value knowledge to come up with multiple answers. This week classes started a new unit on ‘time’ starting with the big picture. Using Advent calendars to launch us into understanding months, seasons and weeks.

Literacy:

Grade 1/2 students - we mean authors - are hard at work preparing their texts for the grown-up readers invited to our Writer’s Expo on Friday of Week 10 (December 13th). All year we have been working with the Writer’s Process model in our writing lessons, and this is the culmination of a lot of planning, drafting, editing, and revising. At our Writer’s Expo, visitors will see our narratives, information reports, poetry, procedures, and persuasive texts and share feedback on children’s work. Teachers and children alike are feeling the pressure, because we are so excited to share with you so many of the wonderful writing we have done this year!

As part of our phonics program, classes have begun Little Learners Love Literacy Stage 7.4 sounds. For the next two weeks, we are focusing on suffixes ing, er and s. We will then be looking at consonant digraphs /wr/ as in wrong, /mb/ as in lamb, /gn/ as in gnome and /kn/ as in know.

What’s to come in the next two weeks:

On Friday the 13th, we welcome parents to join us for our “Year 1/2 Book Launch”. Please check the compass email for details.
We have really noticed an improvement in reading fluency over the past few months. Please continue reading with your child each afternoon using the decodable readers that we have in our classrooms. Refer to the below “fluency goals” to give your child helpful feedback:
Next we dive into the world of money and financial matters. We will be looking at all the different ways to make a dollar and working on open ended questions to support a deeper understanding of our Australian coins and currency. We also continue our journey with ‘time’ and look more closely at the similarities and differences between rulers, clocks and number lines.

ACCURACY	I read the words correctly (sound out and say).
RATE	I make sure my reading isn’t too fast or too slow.
EXPRESSION	I read with feeling. I don’t read like a robot
PUNCTUATION	I follow the punctuation marks that I read in my text.

When you are reading with your child at home, you might like to give them feedback that sounds like this:

Your (accuracy/ rate/expression/punctuation) was _____________________.
Your _______________ could improve by_____________________.
Next time you might like to try ________________________.
I noticed you tried ________________________.

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