Grade 1 and 2 News

Key Dates & Reminders: 

• Grade 2 - Discovery Centre Sleepover: Our grade 2 sleepover is on Thursday 16th November. The cost of this event will be $68 per student. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this event please contact your child's teacher. Families will be able to provide permission and payment on Compass next week. 
• Tissues: We would love some extra donations of tissues! They are in short supply in the junior area of the school and we would be very grateful to any families who might be able to send in a couple of extras boxes.
• Hats: All students are required to be wearing their broad brimmed hat (black or green). We have some students who's hats haven't arrived back at school following the holidays.
• Grandparents Day: Please note down in your calendar that Grandparents Day will be held on Friday 27th October. We look forward to welcoming lots of Grandparents into our classrooms on this day!
• Be Awesome Day: As you would have seen in a recent Compass post our annual 'Be Awesome Day' is fast approaching. All classes across the school will be asking for donations of items, up until Be Awesome Day (Friday 3rd November). Each 1/2 class has given the students an opportunity to have a say, in the stall their class will be running. The following stalls have been chosen:
  • 1/2 Murphy: Zooper Doopers (seeking donations of non-frozen 'No Sugar' Zooper Doopers)
  • 1/2 Crawford: Lob A Choc (various chocolate blocks and bars, GF/DF/V chocolate)
  • 1/2 Todeschini/Arthur: Plants (no donations required - thank you)
  • 1/2 Patrao-Hurley: Lucky Dip (small toys, fidgets, treats, stationery, books, jewellery, stamps and stickers)
  • 1/2 Rodda/Brewer: Lolly Bags (seeking donations of lollies, chocolates suitable for lolly bags. Small bags to create lolly bags with).

What we have been up to...

Footy Colours Day: 

At the end of last term students and staff enjoyed participating in Footy Colours Day and the staff vs. Grade 6's match to see who would take out the coveted 'Stevo Cup'. The weather was perfect for the occasion and there were lots of spectacular tackles on the favourite station - the tackling bags!

Mathematics - Money and Arrays

We concluded last term with the concept money and students had a go at creating their own shop in small groups, where they had the chance to buy and sell items.

We have begun this term with exploring the concept of arrays, beginning the journey towards more formal multiplication skills. We discussed the idea of arrays having rows and columns, and then made the connection to repeated addition. Students looked around the classroom and school yard to find real life examples of arrays and recorded them on grid paper. 

Learning in Week 3 and 4

Mathematics: Our Mathematics sessions will continue to build on skills which support the development of the concepts of Multiplication and also division.  We will demonstrate the link between multiplying and dividing, and allow students the time to explore this idea.

English: During reading sessions in week 3 and 4 students will be practising their summarising skills.  In week 3 our focus words will be shop and like. Over the past couple of weeks we have practised adding the suffixes 'ing' and 'ed' and we will continue to look at these. In Week 4 we will beginning looking at the concept of homophones and will particularly focus on two, too and to.

As part of Writing lessons, students will be refining their recount writing skills, whilst also working on their use of punctuation, Wow words, interesting openers and beginning to use more connectives, other than just 'and'.

Topic: Students have begun our topic for this term called 'Through the Generations'. This week your child/ren should have brought home with them a sheet explaining a 'Class Museum' activity, which will take place in week 4. If you could please support your child with this task we would be very appreciative. If you have any questions please get in touch with your child/ren's teacher.