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Home Inquiry
Jolly Sounds
Check out our YouTube channel. Every week a new set of sounds will be put up to share with your children at home or even show you how we teach them the sound and action. In their purple pouch is the sound and action sheet to practice. You can get them to write it any way you like for example with a water sprayer, playdough, shaving cream, write it in flour. Just as long as they are starting from the correct position and forming the sound correctly. Handwriting hero app is great to use to ensure formation is correct.
Heart Words
Students were sent home the next sheet of heart (snap) words. Please check our YouTube channel to show you how to practice the heart words.
Jolly Words
These are words that can be sounded out and blended. The children say each sound in the words and then blend them together to read the word. We encourage them to chop the sounds on their hand and then blend them together to read the word. They are to keep the card until they are comfortable with the words and blending accurately and then in the mornings they can swap for a new card. Once they have ticked off all the colour dots in that colour card section, we will test them and move them up to the next colour card if they are successful. Please keep these in their Jolly (purple) pouch always. See our YouTube channel for the video showing how to do them.
YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLnfvRwv4dyqmDKu0nLh2Vw
Learning program:
Readers Workshop – Strategies that help us read
Word Study – We are now splitting into small groups.
Blue and orange – ue, u-e, ew
Purple and green –CVC words/ sentence writing
Bookmaking – Spotlight session: About the Author- blurbs Inquiry into Maths
Number: Number practice (addition, subtraction, equal sharing)
Who We Are Central idea: Our identity helps us to understand our and others’ similarities, differences and emotions
Line of inquiry 1: What makes me 'me' and how am I the same as, and different to others.
Line of inquiry 2: Emotions affect our behaviour, interactions and relationships
Line of inquiry 3: We can show understanding and respect in our relationships
Learner profile: Communicators, Principled, Open- minded, Caring
Key concepts: Causation, Responsibility
Christian Studies: Christianity in the World
Key Idea:People make decisions using a range of religious perspectives and ethical frameworks.
Children make connections between their actions and consequences for themselves and others.
Kimochis at home: We have 2 very special Kimochis that are going to come for a visit on the weekend. Brave bug and Curious Cat. Students have designated weekends where they will bring home a small bug or cat and a book with instructions of what they will need to do. They will take the Kimochi home on a Friday and bring them back on the Monday. Please make sure they are taken care of and don’t get drawn on or eaten by any family pets. If you do not have a printer at home, we are happy to print for you.
| Week | Bug | Cat | Bug |
| 9 | Ari | Oliver | Edward |
| 10 | Willa | Kai | Chloe |
You Tube channel: Please use this link to watch the videos each week. We often put up very valuable information that will help your child at home with their sounds, reading and heart words. Please make this a part of your routine to watch frequently.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbAyQloLFifan6LR4xfIFFA
Hats: Students do not need a hat in Term 2 and Term 3. These can be washed and kept at home or in the front pouch of their school bag, so they don’t get lost during this time.
Library books: Please make sure you pack your child’s library books to change on a Wednesday. There are students that continue to forget so your help is appreciated.
Home reading: We now have decodables and free choice books that go home on Fridays. These are for you to practice reading with your child at home. They are changed over on Fridays.Please make sure your child has their clear folder with their books every week.
Jolly words/Heart words: Please encourage your child to change their jolly words frequently before school. They must bring their blue take home folders daily. Heart words should also be practiced most nights to help support them in the classroom.
Volunteers in the classroom: We love having parent volunteers in the classroom to help with sound and heart word practice. If you would like to volunteer, you will need to have all relevant checks completed through the school front office. Volunteers are welcome on Monday-Thursday from 8:30am-9:00am during our morning activity time before our learning day starts. Please let us know if you would like to help!
Gumboots: During the colder months as the weather gets wetter and muddier, students must wear gumboots in the nature play at break times. If your child enjoys playing in nature play, please send gumboots labelled with their name to school. These are kept in plastic bags on the children’s bag hooks by our classroom.
Special Person’s Afternoon
Special Person’s Afternoon will be on Friday 19 September. A parent form was sent home. We kindly ask that this is filled out and returned if you wish for your child to leave early with their special person.
Keep smiling,
Amy and Brianna
Amy Hughes: hughes.amy@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Brianna Stanley:
stanley.brianna@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Welcome to week 9
Thank you for all for supporting us with our independence skills. We are really settling into our routines and feeling comfortable in our space.
Special Persons Day
A reminder that Special Persons Day is Friday and we have some exciting things to showcase. We are very excited to share what we are learning.
Learning program: Week 9
Readers Workshop – We are reading stories about friendships, kindness and empathy. Reading stamina, stretching our reading muscle.
Word Study – Letter names and sounds. During our Word Study learning time, students are introduced to a letter, the sound the letter makes and its Jolly Phonics action. We practice letter formation, SA print style, with an emphasis on letters being form from top to bottom. We look at 3 letters per week and by the end of Term 3 we should have covered all 26 letters of the alphabet. As your children learn more sounds, they will begin to sound out and write simple cvc words (consonant-vowel-consonant) e.g. sat, pin, hut. Bookmaking – We are adding a story to our books and practicing our writing skills.
Inquiry into Maths
Number 1-20, Shape, Sorting
Unit of Inquiry
Who We Are
Central idea: Our identity helps us to understand our and others’ similarities, differences and emotions
Line of inquiry 1: What makes me 'me' and how am I the same as, and different to others.
Line of inquiry 2: Emotions affect our behaviour, interactions and relationships
Line of inquiry 3: We can show understanding and respect in our relationships
Learner profile: Communicators, Principled, Open- minded, Caring
Key concepts: Causation, Responsibility
Some Regular Reminders:
Rest Day
Now that we attend school for the full 5 days, please remember some of our children may be very tired and or emotional by the end of the day and certainly the end of the week and will probably need a few more hugs and early nights, so please make the call if you think they need a rest day.
Chapel/assembly
Our Foundations now attend weekly assembly and chapel with the whole school. A reminder that assembly is Monday afternoon and chapel is Friday morning, as soon as the first school bell goes, we line up and head off to the worship centre.
Toddle
We post important information reminders, student learning, photos/videos and assessments on this platform.
Blue Take Home Folder
All students have been given a blue take home folder. They are to come to school every day. Students will need these for notes to be sent home; take home craft they make during the day.
Library
We are doing a great job remembering our library books and borrowing new ones, thank you to our grown-ups that are supporting us. Our Library Day is Tuesday every week, Foundation children can borrow 2 books, take them home to read and bring them back the following Monday so that we can do it all again on Tuesday.
Keep smiling,
Tania Tenten
tenten.tania@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Hats
Whilst students generally do not need a hat in Term 2 and Term 3, these can be washed and kept in the front pouch of their school bag, so they don’t get lost during this time. It is still a good idea to leave them in bags as some days can still have a high UV rating.
Gumboots
During the colder months as the weather gets wetter and muddier, students must wear gumboots in the nature play at break times. If your child enjoys playing in nature play, please send gumboots labelled with their name to school. These are kept in plastic bags on the children’s bag hooks by our classroom.
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