Junior Years Learning Community

Junior Years - Term 3 - Weeks 7 and 8

Foundation

Literacy

In Literacy, we have been learning the sound-symbol correspondences for ‘oo’, ‘wh’, and ‘th’. We have also been learning that ‘oo’ can make two different sounds; /oo/ like in moon, and /oo/ like in look. 

We have also been writing short sentences that include a mixture of words that we can sound out and tricky words.

For example:

• The food is hot
• I look at the big moon
• I met you at the zoo

Numeracy

In Numeracy, we have been learning about length, mass and capacity. The students have been using balance scales and hefting to compare the mass of two objects.

Religion

In Religion, our topic is, ‘Let's Celebrate Creation’. Students have been learning about the Creation Story. We have also been practising for our Assembly Prayer which will be held on Friday 12th of September.

Inquiry

In Inquiry our topic is, ‘What makes our body work?’. We have been learning about different body parts and their names.

At home you could reinforce learning by:

• Listening to your child read their reader each night.
• Practice reading and writing tricky words found in the back of the Home Reading Diary.
• Practice handwriting lowercase letters of the alphabet.
• Practice writing these sentences;
  • -My big hat is red.  
  • The man went to the zoo.
  • I can see the little ship...Please encourage your child to sound out the words when possible

Complete the maths problems below;

• What can you find that is bigger than a potato but is lighter than it? 
• What can you find that is heavy, but small?

Year One

Literacy

In Literacy, we have been learning about the letter c saying ‘s’ and g saying ‘j’. We have also focussed on the sounds ‘dge’ (bridge) and ‘ge’ (gelato). We have been focusing on spelling tricky words other, another, water, walk, talk and know. 

Numeracy

In Numeracy, we have been learning about sharing collections and data. The students are

learning that data can be collected and represented in different ways to help enhance its meaning.

Religion

In Religion our topic is ‘Let's care for Creation’. The students are recognising and appreciating the beauty and wonder of creation.

Inquiry

In Inquiry our topic is, ‘What makes our body work?’. We have been exploring human growth stages. We have also been practising mindfulness.

At home you could reinforce learning by:

• Listening to your child read their reader each night.
• Practice spelling our tricky words (other, another, water, walk, talk & know) and writing them in sentences.
• Practice handwriting on dotted thirds lines.
• Complete the maths problem below...
• Some students did a survey, and they recorded their results like this:

What might their survey have been about? Give more than one possibility.

What might the graph they drew look like? Be creative.

Year Two

Literacy

In Literacy, we have been learning about nouns ending with the suffix ‘es’ like in peaches. We have been reviewing our learning of base words and prefixes. To improve our comprehension, we have been learning how to use the monitoring strategy. This involves reading a section of the text, then stop and retell what has happened, check if it made sense, then fix any misunderstandings.

Numeracy

In Numeracy, we have been learning how to solve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems. We have been using bar models, number lines and partitioning to solve worded problems.

Religion

Religion our topic is ‘Let's care for Creation’. The students are recognising and appreciating the beauty and wonder of creation.

Inquiry

In Inquiry our topic is, ‘What makes our body work?’. We have been exploring human growth stages. We have also been practising mindfulness.

At home you could reinforce learning by:

• Practice spelling our tricky words (around, could, couldn’t, favourite, should, shouldn’t) and writing them in sentences.
• Listening to your child read their reader each night.

• Complete a word hunt for prefixes ending in ‘es’.

  Complete the maths worded problem below:

• The chef has 24 pizzas on trays in the oven. There is the same number of pizzas on each tray. What might this look like?