Level 1 & 2 

iPads and headphones

This week we will be using iPads each day, can you please ensure your child brings in their iPad each day fully charged and headphones (if they have them) to assist them to work independently. There are limited school iPads therefore important that students bring their own each day. 

CURRICULUM

📚 Phonemic awareness: reading and phonics

Please see below our phonics focus for this week and our literacy focus. 

Grade One Students 

Grade One's will be completing lessons learning about the reading and spelling ce making the /s/ sound and ge making the /j/ sound. 

What can you do at home?

Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

Grade Two Students 

Grade Two's will be completing lessons learning about the long vowel sounds of ai and ay making an a sound and ee, ea and ey making a long e sound. 

What can you do at home?

Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

 📖✏️Literacy

This week we are looking at multimodal experiences that enrich our knowledge of the different zones of the ocean. We will be writing and interpreting the information we learn about to create a poster about zone of the ocean: sunlight zone, twilight zone and midnight zone. 

What can you do at home?

-Nessy is a great resource to use to supplement 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 

-Engage in different non fiction multimodal texts, videos about ocean, rainforests, coral reefs etc. Discuss the fun facts you learn from the videos or non-fiction books. 

➕Maths

Grade One and Two students will be exploring subtraction with hands on materials such as unifix, counters and MAB blocks. We will be expanding on our knowledge of what we know about take away and building on our place value knowledge. 

What can you do at home?

-Continue to skip count forwards and backwards by 2s, 5s and 10 orally when counting objects 

-Engage with mathseeds (Grade One) or mathletics (Grade Two)

🌏 CBL - Diversity 

We will be beginning our CBL explorations, learning about different cultural celebrations and what part of the world they originate from. Students will visit various 1/2 classrooms over the next 3 weeks to learn from a teacher 'expert' about a celebration such: Midsummer Festival, Chinese New Year,  Brazil Carnival, Holi Festival of Colours, Greek dancing and Hanami – Cherry blossom festival. Students will complete a booklet about their learning. 

What can you do at home?

-Ask: What country's celebration did you learn about today? Why is it important? How does this show diversity?

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