Prep

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN PREP

Term 3 - Weeks 5 and 6

LITERACY:

Week 5: Initial Adjacent Consonants

Week 6: Initial Adjacent Consonants

We will continue to revise the sounds and Heart Words previously taught. Students will continue to practice segmenting and blending words. We will work on recalling one or two key facts from informative texts and finding a key word in a text to answer a literal question. Students will work on identifying the meaning of a text. We will be introducing students to labelling diagrams.

MATH:

Week 5: Introducing Subtraction and Time – Making clocks to tell o’clock times and revising Days of the Week

Week 6: Revising subtraction

INQUIRY: Creatures Great ad Small

Week 5: Animal Features – Make an animal with appropriate features for your animal diorama

Week 6: Investigating different animal habitats

WELLBEING:

Wellbeing Lessons in weeks 5 and 6 will continue to focus on:

Anyone can choose:

Students demonstrate types of self-expression and social and relational activities that boys and girls can do at home and at school regardless of gender.
Students talk about what boys and girls can do if someone tells them that they can’t do something just because they are a boy or a girl.

Being strong and gentle:

Students practice being both strong and gentle in the way they move, handle objects and work with others
Students talk about when it is important to be able to be both strong and gentle at the same time
Students talk about the importance of being able to be strong and gentle when they feel angry so they do not hurt themselves or others

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

REMINDERS:

Popcorn will be on sale each Monday for 50c a bag
Monday 14th August is a Curriculum Day – No students will be required at school on this day.
Please bring a shoe box to school by 18th August for our animal dioramas we will be making.
Funky Farm excursion day 23rd August – Money and consent due by 18th August
Book Week Character Dress Up Parade – 25th August

Thank you for your support 😊

Kristy Lund, Ebony Gruar, Anne Goodman and Felicity Elliott

Year 1

Year 2

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN YEAR 2

Term 3 Weeks 5 & 6

LITERACY:

Reading - When reading, we are focusing on identifying the cause and effect in a text as well as making inferences about the weather, using the author's language. Week 6 will focus on tuning into interesting words and making inferences about the time of day using the author's language.

Writing - We are continuing to write narratives this term. Weeks 5 and 6 will have us learning to use words that help the reader understand our message. We will be working on choosing nouns, adjectives and adverbs that bring our writing to life. When editing we will be looking at using capital letters at the start of sentences and for the name of people and places. As well as using full stops, exclamation marks, and question marks to signal the end of a sentence.

Spelling - To read, write and spell words with the ed/t/ and ed/ud/ grapheme (sound) is our focus in weeks 5 & 6.

MATH: We are continuing to focus on addition and subtraction, in particular Identifying fact families. When exploring shape we are looking at how many edges, corners and faces a shape has.

INQUIRY: This term we are exploring the area of Science. In week 5 we are off to our day camp at the Briars. Week 6 will see us making butter in the classroom.

WELLBEING: Students identify and describe personal interests, skills and achievements and reflect on how these might contribute to school or family life.

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! A reminder that your child also has a log in to mathseeds which they can access from home should they wish.

REMINDERS:

Year 2 sport Tuesday afternoons.
Friday 11th August Grade 2 Day Camp at the Briars.
A gentle reminder that we discourage students bringing special toys, games, items etc to school due to the possibility of them getting lost or damaged. It is very upsetting to all when this happens. We like to remind students that if it is extra special, then it's best to leave it safely at home!

Our Mascots

Our Mascots are heading to your homes again during term 3. 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.

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 5/6

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN YEAR 5/6

Term 3 Week 5 and 6

READING: In reading we are learning to compare different story books by the same author to identify strategies to communicate a character’s feelings. Some of the strategies we will be looking at exaggeration, and the language used to describe characters' feelings.

WRITING: In writing we are continuing to create a narrative story for our Prep buddies. We are up to the editing stage so we will be looking at the words we have used to check if the sentences written make sense and vary to engage the audience.

MATHS: We are learning to solve multi-digit division with and without remainders using different division strategies such as grouping, and learning how to solve long division. This will allow us to solve large division problems with ease. We are also learning about different outcomes in change activities.

INQUIRY: This term we are investigating the role of food preparation in maintaining good health and the importance of food safety and hygiene. This week we are learning to write a recipe and continuing to collect and make our recipe book.

HOMEWORK: Students are expected to complete 5 nights of a minimum 20 minutes of reading each week as well as 3 Mathletics tasks. We ask for these to be completed by Monday of each week. Students will receive reward time if both tasks are completed.

OUR YEAR AT A GLANCE: Term 3: Somerville Primary cookbook designCamp Rumbug- September 6th-8th

Term 4: Senior School Market (Date TBC)Year 6 Graduation (Date TBC)

REMINDERS:

Book Week Dress Up 25th August

Happy Birthday

From everyone at SPS

August Birthdays

🍨 10th - Parker L 🍰 10th - Zayden W

🌈11th - Ashton M 💖12th - Hudson I

🎶15th - Tyler S 🎈 15th - Tilly K

🦄15th - Elijah Q 🎂 15th - Millie L

🎉15th - Tyson M 🤩 16th - Alison C

✨ 19th - Violette W 🎁 19th - Ellie M

🍨 19th - Felix M 🎆 20th - Alexa D

🪅21st - Mia K 🧁 21st - Sebastian Z-W

🍭 21st - Hugh D 🌻 23rd - Tomas V

🍰 23rd - Holli