Grade 1/2 News

Key Dates:

• Monday 9th March: Labour Day 
• Wednesday 18th March: School Photos
• Monday 30th March – Whole School Cross Country Event
• Thursday 2nd April - Last day of term (Easter Hat Parade)

Reminders:

Home Reading: Please ensure that your child's reading satchel is returned to school every day, as we practise reading our readers each morning. We also use the reading satchel as a way to transport notes home, so please keep an eye out for those!

What we have been up to...

The students really enjoyed reading our focus text last week, Miss Kraken, which was about a very strict new teacher who had lots of rules. Miss Kraken also happened to be an octopus. The students had great fun coming up with different creatures they would love to have as teachers, as well as those they would definitely not like as a teacher. The highlight activity was when they made their own octopus.

This week, our text was Your School Is the Best!, which follows the adventures of a cockroach who arrives at school in one of the students’ school bags. The students chose their favourite part of the story, with the two most popular moments being when the cockroach was in the teacher’s hair and when he left a rainbow ‘surprise’ in the room after eating all of the crayons.

In Writing, we have begun learning about narratives. We have identified the key features of a narrative, such as characters and settings, and explored how narratives are structured. The students created a story map using their own ideas and developed a character profile, selecting adjectives to describe their character.

In Maths, we have been learning how to locate numbers on a number line, identify numbers that are 'more' and 'less' than to solve problems, and how we can apply our knowledge of place value to solve problems. 

For Topic, the students have been learning about the importance of having a Growth Mindset. They created their own mindset message to use throughout the year when things feel challenging. This week, the students also identified their favourite place in the school and drew a bird’s-eye view of that space.

Maths Challenge

Well done to our Week 5 Maths Challenge winners - 1/2 Rodda! Please find the new Maths Challenge below!

Upcoming Learning

Week 7 and 8

Reading, Writing and Spelling: 

Our focus texts for the next fortnight are:

• Everyday Heroes - People who help in my community
• The Garden of Broken Things & Rose Meets Mr Wintergarden

Students will practise using the reading strategies of predicting, comparing and contrasting and also tuning into interesting vocabulary, whilst being read these books.

For Writing, we will continue our work on Narrative texts. Students will be coming up with possible problems for their stories and developing a series of events that lead to it being solved.

Phonemes for  Term 1 will include: 

Weeks 9 & 10: Revise based on student needs

Mathematics:  For Maths, we will be continuing with our focus on Place Value. Students will be learning how to partition one-, two- and three-digit numbers.

Topic: During our Topic lessons, we will be learning about people who help us in our community.

Rights, Resilience and Respectful Relationships (R.R.R.R.):  During Respectful Relationships lessons, we will focus on techniques we can use to help us to relax.

Our team and emails are as follows:

Madie Floyd: Madison.Floyd@education.vic.gov.au

Tegan Edwards: Tegan.Edwards@education.vic.gov.au

Jane Rodda: Jane.Rodda@education.vic.gov.au

Sami Craig: Samantha.Craig@education.vic.gov.au

Chris McClellan: Christopher.McClellan@education.vic.gov.au