Level 1 & 2 

Welcome to Week 8! 

Specialist Timetable

Please find the current timetable below.

REMINDERS

Reading pockets: 

Please ensure you have your child's reading pockets and they are being brought to school every day. This helps establish consistent routines and supports the development of positive, lifelong homework and learning habits. Please note that books will only be changed on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Hats: 

Please make sure that your child has their sun smart school hat at school each day!

iPads:

Please ensure students are bringing their iPad to school every day. Please remember to stay safe before and after school while your iPads are in your bags.

Personal Belongings:

We are seeing an increase in personal belongings like footy cards, teddies and toys being bought to school. We do 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.

Grade Two Families:

We are looking forward to our excursion to Mount Evelyn Discovery Camp on the 20th of April - the first day of Term Two! Please check Sentral for more details about this exciting day, to give permission and make payment.

CURRICULUM

Literacy

UFLI:

Grade One Students 

This week the students will be learning the digraph 'sh' spelling /sh/.

This will includes words such as: rush, fish and dish.

They will then be learning the digraph 'th' spelling the voiced /th/. 

This includes words such as: this, that and then. 

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

Grade Two Students 

This week the students will be learning the word ending '-es'.

This includes words such as: brushes, dishes, boxes and lunches. 

They will then be learning the word ending '-ed'. 

This includes words such as: yelled, fixed, ended and rested. 

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

Mentor Text:

This week, Grade One and Two students will explore the picture storybook 'I am We, A Book of Community'. Through this text, students are building vocabulary by exploring and discussing the meanings of new words, beginning to use dictionaries to support their understanding. They are also practising using these rich vocab words in oral conversations before transferring their ideas into written sentences. Students will closely examine the illustrations, share their observations, and make text-to-self connections by identifying a page or message they personally connect with.

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.
• Read a story together and identify the characters and setting.
• Ask your child to retell the story in order (beginning, middle, end).
• Practice using a dictionary together to find the definition of new words. 

Maths

Grade One Students: 

This week, students are continuing to work on addition and subtraction by exploring numbers to 20 and multiples of ten. They are partitioning numbers into two and three parts, subitising to recognise number parts, labelling bar models, and writing number bonds. These activities help students build a strong understanding of number relationships and strategies for adding and subtracting.

What can you do at home?

• MathsSeeds
• Use everyday objects (toys, buttons, fruit) to practise splitting numbers into parts.
• Play simple counting or board games that involve adding and taking away objects.
• Ask your child to show different ways to make a number (e.g., 12 can be 10 and 2 or 8 and 4).
• Play quick “subitising” games with dice or cards, asking how many dots or objects they see without counting.

Grade Two Students: 

This week in Grade 2, students are building their time and direction skills. They are revisiting telling time to the half-hour, learning to tell time to the quarter hour on an analogue clock, and identifying clockwise and anti-clockwise turns. Students will build their understanding of these concepts through hands-on activities, board games and physical movement to develop a strong sense of time and spatial awareness.

What can you do at home?

• Mathletics 
• Practise telling the time on an analog clock to the hour, half hour, and quarter hour using a real or toy clock.
• Encourage them to identify clockwise and anti-clockwise turns during play or when moving around the house.
• Use daily routines (meal times, bedtime, TV time) to talk about time.

Wellbeing 

This week in wellbeing we will be exploring the Respectful Relationship topic of 'help seeking', where students will be develop important help seeking strategies for their every day life. 

CBL

Our new Big Idea: Community 

Our Big Idea for this term is Community. Students will be exploring the many different communities they are apart of and value. 

This week in CBL, students will explore the question:

 "What rules and people keep us safe in our community?". 

Students will brainstorm rules and behaviours that keep them safe in our community and create a presentation to teach others about their chosen safety rule. 

Grade One and Two students had the exciting opportunity to interview key members of the Wonga Park Primary School community to learn how their roles positively contribute to our school community.