What's Happening this Week at SPS

Prep

LITERACY:

Week 5: Assessment Week and Revision

Week 6: Qq – Queenie Quail and Zz – Zoe Zebra 

We will continue to revise the sounds and Heart Words previously taught. Students will continue to practice segmenting and blending words. They continue to learn to identify the difference between letters, words and sentences. Students will begin identifying capital letters and full stops. We will continue recalling one or two events from a familiar story and students will complete Semester 1 Assessments. In Writing, we will continue writing recounts of our weekends and special events at school. We will be focusing on writing about one idea and drawing detailed illustrations.

MATH:  

Week 5 Focus: Assessment Week and Revision

Week 6 Focus: Partitioning and Measuring – Comparing Length

INQUIRY: Past, Present and Future

Week 5 – Comparing past and present technology.

Week 6 – Olden day toys and games

WELLBEING: 

Wellbeing Lessons in Weeks 5 and 6 will cover how to cope when things go wrong in a positive way.

HOMEWORK: Please read with your child each day. Continue practicing Sounds and Heart Words each day. Continue to sound out and blend the 2 and 3 letter words. Reading Eggs can be completed as an extra activity if your child wishes. Their login code is already inside their Homework book. 

REMINDERS: 

• Please return any overdue library books.
• With the weather getting cold all students require a jumper at school.
• Please return reader bags to school each day.
• Hats can stay at home for a wash and will not need to be returned until the weather warms up at the end of the year.

Thank you for your support 😊

Kristy Lund, Ebony 

Year 1

Year 2

LITERACY:

Reading - We are focusing on the author's purpose and making connections from what we already know with a range of texts.

Writing - We are focusing on information reports this term and we are looking at what needs to be included in information reports as well as focusing on the sequence of events and important points in logical order.

Spelling - We are learning about alternative graphemes for m (mb as in climb) and r (wr as in write). We are also learning about antonyms (words that have opposite meaning of one another hot/cold, good/bad)

MATH: Our focus is on money, counting coins and notes and ordering these based on value. We are also looking at time and focusing on half past and o’clock.

INQUIRY: On Monday 15th May we will be attending our planks incursion at school where we will have the opportunity to explore design and build. We will also be testing our own design toys in groups.

WELLBEING: This term's focus is on help seeking. During weeks 4 and 5 we are looking at how we can ask for help and students will discuss the types of situations in which they would be best to seek adult assistance.

HOMEWORK: Homework expectations are that students are completing home reading (at least every school night) and filling out their reading diary. Remember each student is aiming to get 200 nights of reading across the year to get a ticket to the Pizza Party!

Our Mascots

Our Mascots are heading to your homes again during term 2. Bessy is going home with the children in 2MD and Bob is going home with the children in 2W.

They will come home on a Wednesday and are expected to be returned on the following Monday. We have loved seeing what the mascots have been up to with the children so far and have seen some amazing handwriting from the children that they have then read and shared with their classes.

REMINDERS: 

• Check Sentral for information about our upcoming incursion. Thank you to everyone who has already given permission and paid.
• Craftpower incursion Monday 5th June. 
• Year 2 sport will be held on a Tuesday afternoon again this term.

CONTACT: Please feel free to get in contact with your child’s classroom teacher/s via their emails below.

Kate McEvoy – Monday – Wednesday - kate.mcevoy@education.vic.gov.au

Mel Dowdle – Thursday & Friday - melissa.dowdle@education.vic.gov.au

Bec Whittingham – rebecca.whittingham@education.vic.gov.au

 Year 3

Year 4

Year 5/6