Grade 1 and 2 News

Key Dates & Reminders: 

• Talk Homework: Each fortnight students will bring home their talk homework. This is designed to be an oral language activity which supports students to think about 
• Parent Reading Helpers: We will start parent reading helpers in term 2 and will send out an expression of interest for this closer to the time. We begin this once we have finished establishing our rules and routines in the classroom. Thank you to those parents who have indicated they will be keen to help us with morning reading in the classroom.

What we have been up to...

Start-Up Performance: The students did a terrific job performing last Friday! It was wonderful to see the community embrace this event and the students beaming smiles on the day. Thank you to the families who were able to come along and support our students!

Reading: Last week students enjoyed reading the story 'Miss Kraken', they spent time predicting what the story might be about, making connections between themselves and the text, imagining an animal who they would like to be taught by and crafting themselves their very own Miss Kraken.

Learning in Week 7 and 8

Reading, Writing and Spelling: 

In Reading sessions, students will be focusing on the books 'Everyday Heroes' and 'Dragon Dance'. 

Students will be writing a Narrative (story) focusing on the different elements such as characters, the setting and a problem/solution.

Our focus sounds are the 'long i as in ice-cream' sound (represented by the following spelling choices i, ie, igh and i_e) and revising the previous sounds taught throughout the term. Students will be practising the heart words: night, light and might.

Mathematics: In Mathematics, students will participate in a number of games and activities which will build on their number and place value knowledge. For example they will be creating numbers larger than and smaller than, figuring out if numbers are odd or even and partitioning numbers using place value knowledge (i.e. ones, tens and hundreds).

Topic: Over the next two weeks students are going to explore the idea of our local community (Spring Gully) and then the following week will look at our Bendigo community. They will think about a place in Spring Gully they have enjoyed participating in different activities such as the bike jumps or the soccer fields. We will read the book called 'Dragon Dance' which will depict our local Bendigo Easter festival.

Rights, Resilience and Respectful Relationships (R.R.R.R.): During Respectful Relationships lessons students will participate in Circle time, where they will discuss the Zones of Regulation and strength cards identifying the way they feel in that moment or on that day and why.