Level 1 & 2 Wonga Weekly
Week 8, Term 4
🗓️ Upcoming Dates:
Thursday 28th November - Drumming Incursion #4 and Performance
Friday 29th November - Grade Six Graduation Fundraiser - Sausage Sizzle Lunch
Monday 9th December - Christmas Carols
Tuesday 10th December - Grade Two Day Camp at Mt Evelyn
Friday 20th December - Last Day
🌳UPCOMING EVENTS
We are looking forward to hearing the students perform their learnt song on Thursday night at our drumming performance. throughout this time you ca tour the classrooms, admiring the students' work from art. Please look out for final reminders about this afternoon during the week.
The Grade Two Day Camp at Mt Evelyn is available on Sentral to make payment and give permission. We will also be sending out additional notices which need to be filled out and returned, such as dietary requirements and medical forms.
WITH THANKS - ONEDERFUL DAY AND SWIMMING
Thank you to our grade one families and their support of our 'Onederful Day!' It was a busy and fun day with our students! Many thanks to our parent helpers who helped make our day such an amazing success!
Our swimming week was a very successful week! Thank you for making sure your child was set up for swimming each day and for the parent helpers who assisted throughout the week.
CURRICULUM
📚 Phonemic awareness: reading and phonics
To support our work using the UFLI program students use their iPad's twice a week to manipulate letters and sounds on a blending board. We would appreciate iPads coming to school fully charged each day.
Students will complete two sounds this week.
Grade One Students are continuing their work on vowel teams and will look at long o and long i. Students will read decodable words, phrases and texts. They will learn the following heart words: again, against, always and almost.
What can you do at home?
-Assist your child to read their 'take home' book each night
-Help your child learn to read and spell their Heart Words
Optional UFLI Home Practice pages
Grade Two Studentswill continue to look at review affixes and practice doubling of letters when adding endings. Students will read decodable words, phrases and texts. They will learn the following heart word: busy.
What can you do at home?
-Assist your child to read their 'take home' book each night
-Help your child learn to read and spell their Heart Words
Optional UFLI Home Practice pages
📖✏️Literacy
Students will be using an article written for students on 'Space Junk.' We will look at and learn vocabulary to help us understand the text and answer questions about it.
Students will be encouraged to write simple persuasive texts to give reasons to support their stance on a topic. Topics students will be responding to include 'It would/wouldn't be great to visit Mars , It would/wouldn't be great to be a Mars Rover.'
What can you do at home?
-Assist your child to articulate their reasons for liking or disliking certain things
➕Maths
Students will use math understanding from throughout the year, such as counting, the four operations and place value, to learn about Australian Money.
What can you do at home?
-Give students a handful of coins to count
-Compare coins from Australia and ones you may have from different countries
🌏 CBL - Curiosity
Our Term Four Big Idea is Curiosity. Students will look at the different planets in our solar system, researching, teaching and learning from others.
Students are still encouraged to make observations of the moon at home. All students should now have their recording sheet at home and we hope you have been able to spot the moon in the night, or day, sky!
👒SUNSMART
We would like to remind you that ALL students are required to wear a broad-brimmed hat when outdoors from the 1st September, when UV levels are typically higher. Please ensure your child brings a hat to school every day to protect them from the sun's harmful rays.