Level 1 & 2 

Wow, week 7 already!

There is still so much to look forward to over the coming weeks! Please read all about our upcoming incursions below and on Sentral!

INFORMATION & REMINDERS

Upcoming Incursions

We are excited to be welcoming two different groups to our school to run incursions with our students to support their learning across CBL and literacy.

On the Tuesday 2nd of June (tomorrow), we will be welcoming an educator from Didgeridoo Australia who will help students create a collaborative art project based on the stories of Bunji and Waa. 

On the 15th of June, we will be welcoming an educator from Drama Toolbox who will guide students through the much loved story of Tiddalick. 

Please login to Sentral where you can give permission and make payment for both of these incursions. Many thanks to the families who have already done so!

Personal Belongings:

We are seeing an increase in personal belongings like footy and Pokemon cards, teddies, squishy toys, remote controlled cars and toys being bought to school. We strongly encourage students to leave these items at home as at times they can cause distress when they become lost or damaged and can distract students from learning time.

Home Learning.

Our Grade One and Two students bring home take home books on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights. We encourage you to read these books more than once with your child to build fluency.

On Friday, we send home a 'Home Learning book' with your child with a hard copy of the following week's UFLI home practice sheets and a copy of your child's fluency reading. We would encourage you to read this text multiple times with your child to help build fluency. 

Please see below some information about the UFLI at home learning and ways you can use it. Stay tuned for more detailed information in the coming weeks!

CURRICULUM

Literacy

UFLI: Grade One Students 

This week the students will be exploring words with -ge saying /j/, such as in words like cage, large and page. Then they will be reviewing words that are the exception to 

UFLI: Grade Two Students 

This week the students will continue to be looking at the long vowel sounds. They will be exploring oa, ow, oe spelling /ō/ and ie and igh spelling /ī/. 

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages found in their home learning book.

Mentor Text: Back on Country 

This week students will be looking at the book 'Back on Country' by Australian authors Adam Goodes and Ellie Laing and Illustrated by David Hardy. Studentswill be sequencing events in the story, making connections to their own opinions and experiences and exploring ways to understand what they are reading. 

What can you do at home?

• When reading at home ask questions about the order of events that happened in the story. 
  • Example: What happened first to the main character? What's the prob;em in the story? Did the problem happen before or after this event?
• While driving - have your child call out adjectives to describe the nouns you see.

Maths

Grade One Students 

The Grade One students are beginning their exploration of addition and subtraction. This week the focus will be understanding the addition and subtraction symbols and building/strengthening strategies. 

What can you do at home?

• MathsSeeds

• Use small snacks such as crackers, grapes, or cereal pieces.

  • Begin counting up a group of snacks with your child.
  • Eat or remove some. Ask: “How many are left?”
  • Discuss what strategies they used

   

Grade Two Students 

This week, our Grade Two students will continue exploring addition and subtraction concepts. Starting with strategies such as doubles, near doubles, halving, counting on, counting back, bridging to 10 and using the jump strategy with number lines.

What can you do at home?

• Mathletics - The "To do list" on their login screen will have some addition and subtraction challenges.
• Ask your child simple maths questions in the car and encourage them to explain which strategy they used.
• Examples: 
  • “Double 6 is?” 
  • “What’s 9 + 10?”
  • “If you had 15 lollies and ate 4, how many are left?”

Wellbeing 

This week in Wellbeing, students will be focusing on working together to solve problems. Students will describe the actions that help the team to work well together and how teamwork can help when people have problems.

What can you do at home?

Prepare a simple meal or snack together. Give each person a job and discuss how everyone's contribution helps achieve the shared goal.

CBL

This week we will be welcoming an educator from Didgeridoo Australia who will help students create a collaborative art project based on the stories of Bunji and Waa. 

Our Big Idea for Term Two is Country. 

Our Guiding Questions:

What is Country?

What is special about our Country?

How can we connect to Country?

Our Essential Question:

How do we respect Country?

Our Challenge:

Write an Acknowledgement of Country for our grade.