Year 1/2 Report

Welcome back everyone to our final term for this year! It is starting to warm up outside. Do not forget to wear your sun smart hat outside and apply sunscreen before arriving at school. 

We have an exciting end of year celebration excursion to Werribee Zoo on Wednesday December the 6th! We cannot wait to share that special experience with the children and our parent helpers.

Numeracy  

During Term 4 in Numeracy, students will be exploring multiplication and division. They will do this through groups of, sharing, repeated addition, repeated subtraction and arrays. Students will be exploring problems that are relevant to their daily life where they might need to create groups of or share objects between each other. Students will also be exploring fractional parts such as quarters, halves and eighths. They will also link fractions to sharing (division). Students will continue to explore time with a focus on the half hour, quarter to and quarter past on an analog and digital clock. Students will explore the mass of objects using balancing scales to compare two objects.

Literacy  

During Term 4 in Reading, students will explore author’s craft. They will analyse the different techniques that authors use to engage their audience. They will be able to identify humor, onomatopoeia, repetition and alliteration to name a few. Students will be exposed to rich literature that will serve as mentor texts. Students will also learn about different language features in texts, such as past, present and future tense. They will also develop their comprehension skills by learning to summarise, infer and contrast. Students will also learn the features of fairy tales, and identify good and bad characters, settings, problems and solutions. 

In Writing, students will be able to use the rich literature from Reading to apply the techniques in their own writing, while continuing to work through the stages of writing. A special highlight for their writing this term will be creating their own fairy tales. They will use their learnings of the features of fairy tales from the reading lessons to write and publish their own characters, setting, events, problems and solutions.

Inquiry  

During Term 4 in Inquiry, students will be exploring our unit "Visiting Victoria." Students will learn to identify where Australia, Victoria and Melbourne are on a collection of maps, and know that these are the places where we live. Students will learn about a variety of special places in Melbourne and Victoria and what makes them special. They will also learn to use directional language in relation to maps. A special lesson of this unit will be when students will learn to use digital technologies and robots (bee-bots) to reach locations on a map. As mentioned above, the special highlight of this unit will be the end of year excursion to Werribee Zoo. Afterwards student will write reports about their experiences of the zoo and what makes it such a special place.

REMINDERS   

School starts at 8:50 and finishes at 3:10 - please make sure you are on time   

Please provide, drink bottle, fruit snack, lunch and recess snack each day 

Term 4 means warmer weather, so please bring your hat to wear outside 

Use the SENTRAL app to notify the school of any absence   

Red folders are to be returned to school each day for notes, home readers and diaries 

If there are any questions about the Werribee Zoo excursion, please see your child’s teacher. 

The Grade 1/2 Team  

Emily Roughtly, Mark Turner, Kirsty Peffers, Carla Asta, Belinda Perera.