Level 1 & 2 Wonga Weekly

INFORMATION

🗓️ Upcoming Dates:

Tuesday 22nd October - Cyber Safety Project Parent Webinar

Tuesday 5th November  - Melbourne Cup Public Holiday

Wednesday 13th November - Grade One Day Camp 'Onederful Day' - at school

👒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. 

🌳UPCOMING EVENTS

The Grade One and Two teachers are busily trying to finalise the details for our Grade Two camp experience that take places this term. Grade One families should expect to see a camp notice on Sentral soon!

CURRICULUM

📚 Phonemic awareness: reading and phonics

Students will complete two UFLI sessions this week (4 lessons and an assessment).

Grade One Students will be learning about r-controlled vowels, with a focus or, ar and or. 

Students will read decodable words, phrases and texts. They will learn the following heart words: pretty and nothing

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 page

Monday & Tuesday learning: -ar

Wednesday & Thursday learning: or

Grade Two Students will continue to learn about different vowel teams focusing on oi and ow.

Students will read decodable words, phrases and texts. They will learn the following heart word: February, eye and heart

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 page 

Monday & Tuesday learning: oi

Wednesday & Thursday learning: ow

📝 Literature: reading responses and writing 

The mentor text is an Information Text about Space.  Students will use this text to form the basis of their literary responses such as learning new vocabulary in the text but begin to understand the purpose of an information text and the features I expect to see in these books.

What can you do at home?

-Encourage retelling of your child's take home book. What were the main events? Can you place the events in order?

🔢  Maths 

Students will continue to look at Time, continuing their investigations into calendars, sequencing daily events and working out how long events take.

What can you do at home? 

-Discuss events you are doing at home eg : What takes longer - brushing your teeth or reading our take home book? 

🌏 CBL - Curiosity

Our Term Four Big Idea is Curiosity. Our learning will have a science base to develop students curiosity of their world. Students will be working on the first question guiding our learning 'What is curiosity?"

Students will also be busy working on completing our 'Respect' mural which we began last term. We are looking forward to sharing this with our families when we are finished!