Level 1 & 2 

Reconciliation Week 

National Reconciliation Week is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia. The 2025 theme, Bridging Now to Next, reflects the ongoing connection between past, present and future. 

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 completing lessons focusing on the long vowel sound of 'u' like in the word cube, tune and June. They will also be exploring the sound u makes like in the word tune. 

What can you do at home?

Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

Grade Two Students 

Grade Two's will be completing lesson 83 a review of the 'r' controlled vowels and lesson 84 long a sound when reading and spelling 'ai' and 'ay'. 

What can you do at home?

Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

 📖✏️Literacy

Mentor Text:  Ceremony by Adam Goodes & Ellie Laing

Ceremony is a joyful and fun story that students will draw connections, find rhyming words and wonder about the rich traditions of dance, family, community and caring for Country. 

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 

-See, think, wonder about new stories that you read together 

➕Maths

Grade One and Two students are focusing on partitioning numbers to then use this skill to problem solve with place value and part-whole.  

What can you do at home?

-Continue to skip count by 2s, 5s and 10 orally when counting objects 

-Compare different numbers - which is bigger or smaller? How do you know?

-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 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. 

School Wide Positive Behaviour: We will continue to be kind, be safe and be a learner especially when playing outside during playtimes.