Hello fabulous Level 1 families

We hope the last fortnight has been good for you all and if nothing else, your plants are growing well from the rain! We want to shout out to the Level 1 students for being so supportive of each other. All of the teachers are seeing lovely examples of students including others, helping during learning, putting things away for their peers and saying 'well done' and 'good job'. These acts of kindness really do spread and fill everyone's buckets. Great job!

Reminders

We are so excited for our upcoming Community Art Fest on Friday 27th March please see the communications on Compass / WhatsApp chats for all of the information. Year 1 are wearing a touch of blue.

If you have any Easter Lucky Draw donations, please drop them off to the office by Friday 27th March. Donations can be Easter eggs and/or Easter themed goodies.

Teeth on Wheels will be visiting on Monday 30th March. Parents should have registered their child (flyer was sent via Compass 2 weeks ago).

Easter Hat Parade and Raffle will be held in the stadium on Thursday 2nd April at 9:10am. Parents are welcome to join to see the amazing display of hats.

Homework books were due today and will have been returned to your child this afternoon with a new homework sheet inside.

Homework is not mandatory. All activities within the homework grid are revision/consolidation of what we have been learning in class.

Students have two weeks to complete any activities and books are to be returned by the following Friday fortnight.

A new homework grid will be issued each fortnight.

Thanks for your support with your child's homework. We hope it's going well.

Take home books will continued to be exchanged twice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays. Plese ensure your child brings their take home books back to school on those days.

Please note: take home readers should be a 'just right' book whereby students can practice reading with fluency, accuracy and expression. Please chat/ask questions about the book before, during and after reading.

Timetable Term 1

Literacy

The Next Fortnight

In Week 9, students will be reading the text Dry to Dry - The Seasons of Kakadu by Pamela Freeman and Liz Anelli, where students will explore the interesting vocabulary within the book, as well as learning about the weather in Kakadu. They will use this knowledge and vocabulary to write interesting sentences and an information report.

In Week 10, students will read My Grandad Marches on ANZAC Day' by Catriona Hoy and Benjamin Johnson. We will spend time discussing the acronym ANZAC and the importance of ANZAC Day. Students will be inferring how the characters are feeling in the story and writing sentences that are correctly puncutated and include adverbs to describe the verbs.

Core Literacy

Our daily Core Literacy lessons include many English components including handwriting, dictation, card deck, making words with letters and their sounds, reading words and texts and comprehension.

It is also a time when we incorporate the student text book, Spelling Mastery, twice a week into our lessons to revise sounds, letter names and the reading and spelling of words.

Here's what we will be focusing on over the next two weeks:

Week 9: Heart Words review - would, should, could

Morphology - reviewing the 'FLOSS' rule - doubling the final consonant

Week 10: Heart Words - they, where, there

Morphology - past tense suffix 'ed' and the different sounds it makes

Every Thursday, students will bring home their fluency reading sheet that they have been reading in class. It would be great if your child reads this text to you at home for further consolidation with fluency, expression and accuracy. Please note that there are comprehension questions on the back of this sheet that can be revisted too. Thanks for your support with this.

Mathematics

Over the next fortnight in Level 1 Mathematics, students will continue to build their number fluency by skip counting, looking at number patterns and subitising. In Week 9, we will focus on some informal units of measurement for mass and length (such as string, unifix and paper clips) as well as comparing the length and mass of objects. A big part of this skill is to estimate and explain reasoning behind the estimations. A good way to help with this at home is to ask your child how long they think the dining table is in unifix (or lego blocks / pencils etc) and then measuring with those objects. In Week 10, we will be exploring capacity and reviewing / consolidating some key parts of our learning from Term 1.

Inquiry

This term in Inquiry, our focus is Changing Families, where students are exploring how all families are different and how aspects of daily life have changed over time. Over the next fortnight, students will describe how school was different in the past compared to today, developing their understanding of change over time. We will continue learning about the many different family structures that exist and discuss the difference between immediate family (such as parents and siblings) and extended family (including grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins). Students will demonstrate their understanding of changing families through class discussions and learning activities that highlight and celebrate the diversity of families in our community.

Next week, students will begin a mini project all about families which will showcase their understanding from the unit of work. These will be taken home at the end of the term.

Warm Regards,

The Level 1 Team

Nishtha Kapoor, Lizzie Parmar, Rhiannon Harris-Tudor and Robyn Hall

SEPS Parents Gala - Saturday 25th April