Level 1 & 2

Week 8, Term 2

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 reviewing the vowel constant vowel sounds, looking at the heart words we have been learning about.

What can you do at home?

Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

Grade Two Students

Grade Two's will be completing lessons learning about the vowel team ie and igh making the long i sound.

What can you do at home?

Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

📖✏️Literacy

We are continuing our learning about oceans by putting all of the ocean zones together in a visual diorama.

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

This week we will be focusing on length. We will use informal measuring tools such as counters, unifix, etc. We be ordering objects based on indirect and direct comparisons.

What can you do at home?

-Compare different lengths of objects around your home. How could you describe it?

-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.