Year 1/2 Term 1 Overview

Year 1/2 Term One

Welcome to the 2022 school year at St John's.

We sincerely hope this will be one that has fewer interruptions and changes than 2021.

A big welcome to our new families: Abriel, Brody and Jan in 1/2 AB, as well as Emilio, Feng Ming and Zoe in 1/2 KR.

We are so excited to have a new year filled with learning and opportunities for students to play in our renovated outdoor spaces. We hope our new families can join the Preps and Year Ones for the Welcome dinner on 15 February, to meet many more families in our community.

Food

The Year 1/2 students eat a fruit/vegetable snack each morning around 10am. The fruit or vegetable should be chopped into small pieces as students do not have a long time for this snack. Please bring a named drink bottle to school every day for water. Children are reminded that they are not allowed to share food from their lunchboxes at school.

Please do not put sweet treats in their lunchboxes as we encourage healthy eating and use small containers instead of plastic wrappings. Thanks for your support with this.

Religious Education

Our focus for this term is on Prayer. We will be exploring different ways to pray and the places that we can pray to feel closer to God. Later in the term we will be exploring the season of Lent. Students will reflect on Lent as a season of waiting and connect this to things that they wait for in their own lives. We will also explore the events leading up to Easter Sunday and the significance of this celebration in the Church’s calendar.

Mathematics

In Mathematics we will continue our professional development with Monash University (EMC3- Exploring Mathematical Challenges) where we meet and plan with Maths Leaders to provide a challenging and extensive maths program.

Our topics will include

Place Value and Counting: being able to read, write, recognise and compare varying sized numbers and skip counting.
Money and Financial Matters: recognising Australian coins and notes and using them to purchase different items.
Length, Area and Perimeter will be investigated throughout the rest of the term.

Literacy

In Reading, we will continue to work on developing fluency and expression with a focus in reading groups, on the following comprehension strategies:

sequencing
summarising
visualising
author's purpose

In Writing, our focus this term will be on persuasive writing. Students will make connections to our Inquiry unit by developing persuasive skills to convince an audience to buy certain products. We will examine persuasive features such as including reasons and examples to support their argument.

Social & Emotional Learning

Our focus for SEL this term is Self Awareness, in particular the recognition and expression of emotions. Students will be given opportunities to extend their vocabulary through which to recognise and describe emotions and when, how and with whom it is appropriate to share those emotions.

Inquiry

"How do our choices impact ourselves and others?"

This term during our Inquiry learning we will be exploring how our choices in spending money can be influenced towards different items. Students will discuss how money can be spent on needs and wants in our daily lives. Students will explore making responsible choices and the types of jobs that are available in their local communities.

Home Learning

Daily reading and recording in reading records.
Mathletics - Tasks will be set in Mathletics relating to classroom topics to consolidate learning. It is not expected that students would complete all tasks in one sitting.

Specialist Subjects

Students will have specialist classes towards the end of the week (please see timetable below). They will be required to wear their sport uniforms on Wednesday and Friday.

We will visit the Library every Tuesday and borrow different books for Home Reading.

WEEKLY TIMETABLE

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Library

Digital Technology

STEM

Visual Arts (KR)

Italian