Grade 1/2 News

Term 3, Week 2
Welcome back to the Grade 1/2 page!

Welcome back to all of our 1/2 families for Term 3! We are looking forward to another awesome term.

Key Dates:

Monday 8th September – Melbourne Zoo Excursion
Thursday 6th November - Grade 2 Sleepover (TBC)

Maths Challenge

Check out our first Maths Challenge of the term below!

What we have been up to...

Last week, our focus text was 'The Imagineer'. The students completed a summary of the text as well as coming up with an idea for an invention that could improve their own lives. This week's text was 'A is for Australian Animals'. The students enjoyed learning facts about animals and had a go at writing an acrostic about one of those animals.

In Mathematics, we have been revising and improving on our strategies to help us recall addition and subtraction number facts as well as consolidating our skills to solve vertical addition and subtraction problems.

This term, our Topic unit focuses on Light and Sound. Students will investigate the uses of light and sound to add effect to a puppet show - their final product for this unit. They will develop skills in script writing, construction and design, whilst developing essential cooperative learning skills. To immerse the students into the unit, they completed an activity to explore and use their five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell) to better understand the world around them. They also identified light sources and examined how light interacts with various materials. This week, we investigated how musical instruments create sound through vibrations.

Photos from the last fortnight...

Upcoming Learning

Reading, Writing and Spelling:

Our focus texts for Week 3 and 4 are:

The Three Little Pigs
Little Red Riding Hood

Phonemes and Heart words for Term 3 will include:

Week 3: th (voiced)

💗 – then, that, they

Week 4: th (unvoiced)

💗 – because, want

Week 5: ng

💗 – friend, favourite

Week 6: revise or/aw/a/au

💗 – one, once, said

Week 7: revise ay/ai/a/a_e

💗 – they, where, were

Week 8: revise i_e/y/igh/e/ie

💗 – after, upon

Week 9: Adding Suffixes (ing, ed, s)

💗 – play, call, live

Mathematics:

Next week in Mathematics, we will begin a new unit of work under the Space strand. First, the students will be learning about 2D and 3D shapes before moving onto activities that focus on location.

Topic:

Next week, as part of our Topic of Light and Sound, students will be learning how we can measure sound by exploring volume, as well as how we can create high and low pitch sounds.

Respectful Relationships:

This term for RRRR, we will be covering Topic 7 - Gender norms and stereotypes. Activities within this topic area will assist students to:

• reflect on their identity via a focus on their likes, dislikes and strengths

• develop an awareness of positive and negative gender norms

• challenge negative gender norms

• develop an appreciation of difference.

Book Week (Week 5)

It’s that’s time of year again when we dust off the hot glue gun and put together a costume to celebrate Book Week. This year, Book Week will be celebrated from Monday 18th to Friday 22nd August, and the 2025 theme is Book an Adventure! 2025 is a milestone year, celebrating 80 years of the Australian Children’s Book Week!

We have organised 2 family events for the week:

On Monday 18th August from 8.45am to 9.00am our school will open our libraries and classrooms for families to read a story book with their child/ren. Our Grade 1/2s will then move on to an activity with their Grade 6 buddies.
The second activity will be held on Friday 22nd August for our annual whole-school book parade. This will be held in The Hub at 9am. We encourage all students to dress up as their favourite book character on this day.