Grade 1/2

Dear Families

Welcome to Term 2!  We hope you all had a restful break and are ready for an exciting and productive term ahead. We are looking forward to a term full of learning, growth and fun experiences.

LITERACY

In Reading, we are focussing on building reading comprehension skills through shared and guided reading. Students will develop their comprehension skills by using strategies such as questioning, inferring and summarising. Students will learn about the text structure and features of a fiction and a non-fiction text.

In Writing, students will learn to write narratives and information reports. They will develop their skills to  plan, draft, edit and publish their own piece of writing.

Systematic Synthetic Phonics Program

Systematic Synthetic Phonics is a structured and evidence based method of teaching reading and writing where students are explicitly taught the relationship between sounds (phonemes) and letters (graphemes). Through this method, students will learn to blend individual sounds together to form words (blending) and to break words down into their individual sounds (segmenting).

NUMERACY

In Maths, students will explore and learn about place value, addition, subtraction and patterns. Students will also work on problem-solving tasks to build on their mathematical thinking and confidence.

SEL/INQUIRY

Our Inquiry focus for this term is ‘past and present’.  Students will learn about the following key concepts:

• Continuity and Change: Recognising what has remained the same and what has changed over time in various aspects of life. 
• Personal and Family Histories: Exploring their own family history and connections to the past. 
• Local History: Investigating the history of their local community and how it has evolved. 
• Technology: Examining how technology has changed over time and its impact on people's lives. 
• Historical Terms: Understanding and using terms like "then and now," "long ago," "yesterday," and "tomorrow". 

We would like to encourage you to be a part of your child’s learning by engaging them into conversations about the things you used to do when you were a child such as games you played, toys you used, types of houses you were living in, how were the schools like and what kind of technologies did you use etc.?

In SEL, Students will learn about different coping strategies. This will increase their abilities to manage stress, control impulses and overcome obstacles. Students will also learn about problem solving by developing their creative and critical thinking skills to explore different types of problems. This will help building their ability to make responsible decisions and choosing different ways of solving problems.

REMINDERS

School start at 8.35 am every day and finishes at 3 pm.

Homework/Readers will be sent home each Monday and due on Friday.

Dates to Remember

7th of May- Mothers and others day morning tea 

27 May- Didgeridoo Australia (Incursion)

19 June -Wild Life (Incursion)

Swimming Program

Tuesday 24th June - Wednesday 25th June

Tuesday 1st July - Wednesday 2nd of July

27th June -Books in Homes

School Values Award Certificate

The awardees for this week's values awards are:

12 A- Lena G

12B- Tiffany N

12C- Damir U

Thank you for your ongoing support. If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. We are looking forward to another fantastic term of learning and fun.

Warm regards,

Year 1/2 team