Level 1 & 2 

Welcome to Week 7! 

We hope you had a lovely long weekend.

Specialist Timetable

Please find the current timetable below.

REMINDERS

Reading pockets: 

Please ensure you have your child's reading pockets and they are being brought to school every day. This helps establish consistent routines and supports the development of positive, lifelong homework and learning habits. Please note that books will only be changed on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Hats: 

Please make sure that your child has their sun smart school hat at school each day!

iPads:

iPads can now be brought to school if you have returned your Digital Technology Agreement. Please remember to stay safe before and after school while your iPads are in your bags.

Personal Belongings:

We are seeing an increase in personal belongings like footy cards, teddies and toys being bought to school. We do encourage students to leave these items at home as at times they can cause distress when they become lost or damaged and can distract students from learning time.

Grade Two Families:

We are looking forward to our excursion to Mount Evelyn Discovery Camp on the 20th of April - the first day of Term Two! Please check Sentral for more details about this exciting day, to give permission and make payment.

CURRICULUM

Literacy

UFLI:

Grade One Students 

This week the students will be learning the digraph 'ck' spelling /k/.

This will includes words such as: duck, back and luck. 

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

Grade Two Students 

This week the students will continue to review the VCe spelling pattern. 

Vowel-consonant-e (VCe) is a spelling pattern in which a silent 'e' at the end of a word signals a change from the short vowel sound to a long vowel sound (e.g. kit -> kite). 

This includes words such as: grade, these, shape, slide and drove.  

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

Mentor Text:

This week, Grade One and Two students will explore The Lucky Shack by Aspara Baldovino, focusing on descriptive language and storytelling. They will identify and use adjectives from the story, create similes using “as” and “a,” and examine how the story is structured. Students will also design their own shack and write detailed descriptions, such as “a flickering light glimmering through the front window,” to practise using rich, creative language.

What can you do at home?

• Nessy is a great literacy resource to use that supplements your child's reading in a fun engaging way on their iPad.
• Read a story together and identify the characters and setting.
• Ask your child to retell the story in order (beginning, middle, end).
• Ask students to use adjectives to describe nouns 

Maths

Grade One Students: 

This week, students will begin exploring addition and subtraction. They will practise partitioning numbers to ten into two or three parts, use subitising to quickly recognise number parts, and label discrete bar models to understand how numbers are made. Students will also write number bonds within ten to build a strong foundation for addition and subtraction strategies.

What can you do at home?

• MathsSeeds
• Use everyday objects (toys, buttons, fruit) to practise splitting numbers into parts.
• Play simple counting or board games that involve adding and taking away objects.

Grade Two Students: 

This week in maths, students will begin focussing on measurement, specifically learning to tell the time on analog clocks. They will practise reading the time to the hour, half hour, and quarter hour, and explore clockwise and anti-clockwise turns. These activities will help students understand time in daily life and develop their ability to describe and measure movement and direction.

What can you do at home?

• Mathletics 
• Practise telling the time on an analog clock to the hour, half hour, and quarter hour using a real or toy clock.
• Encourage them to identify clockwise and anti-clockwise turns during play or when moving around the house.
• Use daily routines (meal times, bedtime, TV time) to talk about time.

Wellbeing 

This week, our SWPB focus is “Be Safe” in outside settings, with a focus on 'play non-tackling games'. Students will also participate in bullying prevention activities and engage with picture storybooks that support respectful and safe behaviour.

CBL

Our new Big Idea: Community 

Our Big Idea for this term is Community. Students will be exploring the many different communities they are apart of and value. 

Grade One and Two students had the exciting opportunity to interview key members of the Wonga Park Primary School community to learn how their roles positively contribute to our school community.

This week, we will read the picture story book 'Circles All Around Us', focusing on the different “bands” of community, from family and friends to their wider world. 

 We look forward to sharing some of the students reflections from our CBL sessions.