Level 1 & 2

Week 5, Term 3

Level 1 & 2

Week 5, Term 3

🤸Gymnastics

Our students are thoroughly enjoying the gymnastics program. Each week, they are developing strength, confidence, and a range of new skills in a supportive and engaging environment. We kindly remind families that students should wear clothing appropriate for physical activity (please avoid dresses or tights). In addition, due to the increased physical exertion, we recommend packing extra snacks in your child’s lunchbox.

CURRICULUM

📖 Phonemic awareness: reading and phonics

Grade One Students

Grade One students will be learning how 'a' spells /ar/ in words such as; bath, path, fast, glass and how 'or' spells or and ore in such words as fork, sort, shore, more

Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

What can you do at home?

Grade Two Students

Grade Two students will be learning about the suffixes ‘less’ and ‘ful’ in words such as hopeless, hopeful, and the prefix ‘un’ (meaning opposite) in words such as unlucky, undo

What can you do at home?

Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

📖✏️Literacy

Mentor Text:

This week we will continue to explore books shortlisted from the Early Childhood section of Children's Book Council Australia.

The Wobbly Bike by Darren McCallum is another text that has been shortlisted for Children’s Book Week, from the Early Childhood division. It is a warm and funny story about learning to ride, trying again after wobbles, and the joy of family support. Set in Darwin, it celebrates perseverance and the special bond between a child and their Pop.

What can you do at home?

-Nessy is a great literacy resource to use that supplements your child's reading in a fun engaging way on their iPad

-Ask comprehension questions about your child's take home book or a book you read together

-Ask your child to discuss what they liked or didn't like about a book they have just read. Encourage the use of the word 'because!'

➕Maths

Grade One:

✖️ ➗ Students will continue their explorations and understandings with division and multiplication. We will continue to explore these processes through making equal groups, skip counting, and simple sharing problems. We have ben using hands-on materials, where students learn what “groups of” and “shared between” mean, building strong number sense and confidence for future maths learning.

What can you do at home?

Talk with your child about making equal groups using everyday objects (like fruit, buttons, or socks). Practise sharing things fairly between people (e.g., "Let’s share these 12 grapes between 4 people—how many does each person get?"). Use words like “groups of,” “shared between,” and “equal parts” to build their understanding in a fun and natural way. Practise counting and skip counting patterns.

Grade Two:

✖️ ➗In Grade Two, students have begun to build on their understanding of equal groups and sharing by working with arrays, repeated addition, and simple number sentences. They have been practising skip counting by different numbers, exploring fact families, and using strategies such as doubling, halving, and using known facts to solve the problems presented. These skills continue to strengthen the students understanding and efficiency with both multiplication and division.

What can you do at home?

Support your child’s understanding of multiplication and division by exploring everyday situations involving equal groups and sharing. For example, ask questions like: “If we have 3 plates with 4 cookies on each, how many cookies altogether?” or “Can we share these 18 blocks equally between 3 people?” Encourage your child to use drawings, skip counting, or grouping objects to solve problems and talk through their thinking.

🧑‍💻 Cyber Safety

This week’s focus is about passwords and passwords protection. The students will explore why people use passwords, learn to create a strong password, and consider why it is important to keep passwords safe.

🌏 CBL - Change

This term our whole school will be celebrating our school's 130th birthday. Our CBL big idea, Change, lends itself to discovering a lot about how Wonga Park has changed over this time.

Over the next few weeks we will be learning about games from the past that students school would have enjoyed. Classes will be working towards creating games from many decades ago as part of our CBL challenge.

😊 School Wide Positive Behaviour: We will continue to be kind, be safe and be a learner especially when playing outside during playtimes.

📚 Recent events:

On Friday 15th of August we enjoyed our visit from Coral Vass as part of our Book Week celebrations. She is the author of over 25 published children’s books including Grandma’s Treasured Shoes, Peek and Boo and Goodnight Possum to name a few. We were excited to learn from Coral as a creative storyteller and build the student’s understanding of the writing process through her session with us.

🧜🏻‍♀️ 👨‍🚀 Book Week

On Friday 22nd of August we will be celebrating Book Week with our annual whole school dress up parade - more information to follow.

👩🏼‍⚕️👨🏽‍⚕️ Reminders:

If your child requires medication during the school day, a medication administration form must be completed. This form is available from the school office. For safety reasons, students should not carry medication in their school bags. All medication must be delivered directly to the office by an adult.