What's Happening this Week at SPS

Prep

LITERACY:

Week 7: Initial and Final Adjacent Consonants

Week 8: ck

We will continue to revise the sounds and Heart Words previously taught. Students will continue to practice segmenting and blending words. Students will compare Informative and Imaginative Texts and the differences between the two. We will write recounts of our excursion to the Funky Farm and our Book Week Parade.

MATH:  

Week 7: Revising Subtraction and Time – Days of the Week

Week 8: Revising subtraction and Time – Days of the Week

INQUIRY: Creatures Great ad Small

Week 7: Funky Farm Excursion

Week 8: Making Animal Habitat Dioramas

Our students absolutely LOVED the Funky Farm and Hastings Foreshore excursion. A massive thank you to our wonderful helpers who came on the day. These amazing opportunities would not be able to run without your support so thank you very much! 😊 Keep an eye out in the Newsletter for pictures and writing about this special day.

WELLBEING: 

Wellbeing Lessons in weeks 7 and 8 will focus on kindness as we will be making lots of special things for Father’s Day and celebrating others at our Book Week Parade.

HOMEWORK: Please read with your child each day. Continue practicing sounds and Heart Words each day. Continue to sound out and blend words. Reading Eggs can be completed as an extra activity if your child wishes. Their login code is already inside their Homework book. 

REMINDERS: 

• Popcorn will be on sale each Monday for 50c
• Book Week Character Dress Up Parade – 25th August on Basketball Courts at 9am
• Father’s Day Stall on Friday 1st September (Payment due by Monday 28th August)
• Father’s Day Open Afternoon on Friday 1st September from 2.30-3.15pm
• Planning Week for Term 4 in Week 9 so all Preps will have their specialist sessions this week on one day.
• We would like to invite all families in to see the amazing animals and habitats the Prep students have made at our Habitat Viewing Session on Friday 8th September from 3-3.15pm
• Footy Meal Deal Day – Friday 15th September (Payment and order due by 11th September)
• Footy Day Dress Up and Parade – Last day of Term 3 on Friday 15th September at the Basketball Courts at 9am
• Last Day of Term 3 – 2.30pm dismissal on Friday 15th September

Thank you for your support 😊

Kristy Lund, Ebony Gruar, Anne Goodman and Felicity Elliott

Year 1

Year 2

LITERACY:

Reading - When reading, we are focusing on summarizing the main idea of a text as well as making inferences about the time of day using the author's language.

Writing - We are continuing to write narratives this term. Weeks 7 and 8 will focus on writing sentences that make sense and sound right when read aloud. We will continue to focus on the use of capital letters at the start of sentences and for the name of people and places as well as the use of full stops, exclamation marks, and question marks to signal the end of a sentence.

Spelling - To read, write and spell words with the dge and tion  grapheme (sound)  is our focus in weeks 7 and 8.

MATH: We are introducing multiplication over the next two weeks. In particular the focus will be on equal groups to represent multiplication. We are also looking at measurement, investigating length through informal and formal units of measurement.

INQUIRY: This term we are exploring the area of Science. Weeks 7 and 8 will have a cooking focus. Children will be involved in preparing and  cooking  and enjoying the yummy food we create of course!

HOMEWORK: Homework expectations are that students are completing home reading (at least every school night) and filling out their reading diary. Remember each student is aiming to get 200 nights of reading across the year to get a ticket to the Pizza Party! A reminder that your child also has a log in to mathseeds which they can access from home should they wish.

A big thank you to our parent helpers Jayne and Angela who attended our recent Briars day camp, thank you!! 🙂

REMINDERS: 

• Year 2 sport Tuesday afternoons.
• Friday 25th August Book Week dress up.
• 1st September Fathers day stall & afternoon celebration.
• 15th September Last day of term 3 and football dress up.

Our Mascots

Our Mascots are heading to your homes again during term 3. Bessy is going home with the children in 2MD and Bob is going home with the children in 2W. They will come home on a Wednesday and are expected to be returned on the following Monday. We have loved seeing what the mascots have been up to with the children so far and have seen some amazing handwriting from the children that they have then read and shared with their classes.

CONTACT: Please feel free to get in contact with your child’s classroom teacher/s via their emails below.

Kate McEvoy – Monday – Wednesday - kate.mcevoy@education.vic.gov.au, 

Mel Dowdle – Thursday & Friday - melissa.dowdle@education.vic.gov.au,

 Bec Whittingham rebecca.whittingham@education.vic.gov.au 

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5/6