Grade 1/2 News

Key Dates: 

• Monday 9th June - Kings Birthday Public Holiday  - No School
• Friday 13th June - Capital Theatre Bendigo - 'Imagine' - Alison Lester - Please note this event has been released on Compass and permission & payment can now be provided. Thank you to those families who have already done this.

Maths Challenge

Well done to this fortnight's Maths Challenge winners - 1/2 Murphy (again!!) Please find next week's challenge below!

You may like to use your own playing cards to help solve the problem. Once you have solved it, then write/draw the answer on the back of your challenge card.

What we have been up to...

This week, we have been learning all about sloths. We enjoyed reading the story, The Speedy Sloth, and writing facts about sloths.

For Maths, students have been strengthening their mental computation strategies for addition and subtraction, using techniques like bridging to 10, doubles and near doubles, and halving numbers.

Over the past fortnight, as part of our unit on Stimulating Science. the focus was on living and nonliving things. We conducted an experiment, using celery and coloured water to demonstrate how plants need water to survive.

Photos from the last fortnight...

Upcoming Learning

Reading, Writing and Spelling: 

Our focus texts for week 7 and 8 are:

• The Journey Home
• Imagine

Students will practise using the reading strategies predicting, making connections and also tuning into interesting vocabulary, whilst reading these books.

Our Writing lessons will focus on procedures and the importance of giving clear instructions for the reader to follow.

Phonemes and Heart words for the remainder of term 2 will include: 

Week 7: oy, oi

💗 – boy, toy/s,

Week 8: oo (boot)

💗 – food, soon, zoo, school

Week 9: eer

💗 – dear, hear, year

Week 10 and 11: Revision will be based on student need.

Mathematics: Students will be learning how to collect data and then how they can present their findings in the form of graphs.

Topic: Over the next fortnight we will look at the Physics strand of science. Students will be learning to identify the properties of different objects.

Respectful Relationships: As part of our Respectful Relationships lessons students will be participating in Circle time with a focus on building resilience and a lesson learning about who they can go to for help.