Level 1 & 2 Wonga Weekly
Week 5, Term 1
🗓️. Upcoming Dates:
Monday 24th Feb - the NED show
Thursday 20th March - Colour Run
The NED Show (Mon 24th February)
The NED Show is a character education program that centres around three important messages that have life long relevance:
During the assembly, students will learn about NED’s three messages while also enjoying storytelling, magic, humour and yo-yo tricks.
Please click on the link for further information.
http://www.thenedshow.com/parents.html
SHOWBIE
Teachers are in the process of setting up Showbie, please make sure this app is updated and installed on your child's iPad. Codes will be coming out shortly and in your child's take home reading log.
CURRICULUM
📚 Phonemic awareness: reading and phonics
Please see below our phonics focus for this week and our literacy focus.
Grade One Students
Grade One's will be completing lesson lesson 40 short e and lesson 41 short vowel review.
What can you do at home?
Optional UFLI Home Practice pages
Grade Two Students
Grade Two's will be completing lesson 49 and 53 which is a digraph review.
What can you do at home?
Optional UFLI Home Practice pages
📖✏️Literacy
Mentor Text: Bat vs Poss written by Alexa Moses
We are exploring another narrative style story called Bat vs Poss. We will learn about the animals from the story that may live in our backyard. Students will also delve deeper into the vocabulary in the story and identify adjectives and nouns to begin learning how to write an introduction.
What can you do at home?
-Look for animals in your backyard and describe them
-Chat and notice any interesting nouns and adjectives around you
➕Maths
We will be continuing our knowledge of place value. Students will be deconstructing numbers into hundreds, tens and ones and making numbers with physical materials. They will also explore various tasks to partition numbers and break them into parts.
What can you do at home?
-Read and discuss numbers around your home: how many hundreds, tens or ones are there in that number?
-Play card and dice games that helps with number recognition and fluency
🌏 CBL - Connections
This week we will be continuing to identify our feelings and emotions as well as identifying what other people feel and how to help them. We will be exploring how we can be a good friend and the qualities that good friends have. Students will connect across the grade levels and complete a friendship scavenger to help foster new friendships.
What can you do at home?
-Discuss a variety of inclusive games that your child could play outside
-Make a list of questions to ask to a new friend to get to know them better
Wellbeing
This week our Grade Ones and Twos are learning new skills to feel confident to: try new games outside, make new friends and include others if they would like to join in. We will also be engaging with the 'Friendology' program delving into lesson 3: 'Making new friends'.