Level 1 & 2 

Level 1 & 2 

Week 4, Term 3

🤸Gymnastics Reminder

Our students are absolutely loving the gymnastics program! They’re building strength, confidence, and having so much fun learning new skills each week. Just a reminder that your child should wear appropriate clothing for this type of activity (no dresses or tights) and due to the extra physical activity, please ensure that your child has extra snacks packed in their lunchbox. 

CURRICULUM

📚 Phonemic awareness: reading and phonics

Grade One Students 

Grade One's will be finishing off our unit on ending spelling patterns by completing a review. We will then a unit looking at 'r controlled vowels,' beginning with ar /ar/. 

Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

What can you do at home?

Grade Two Students 

Grade Two's will look at the suffixes 'er' and 'est' eg. higher, longer, smallest, tallest as well as the suffix 'ly' in words such as badly, lovely, safely. 

What can you do at home?

Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

 📖✏️Literacy

Mentor Text: 

Over the next two weeks we will be reading and exploring books that have been shortlisted for Children's Book Council of Australia Book week awards in the category for Early Childhood.

The books we will be reading include

-Spiro

-Don't worry Felix

-The Wobbly Bike

-Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Tooth Fairy and Some Things You Didn't. 

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

-Ask comprehension questions about your child's take home book or a book you read together 

-Ask your child to discuss what they liked or didn't like about a book they have just read. Encourage the use of the word 'because!'

➕Maths

Grade One:

✖️ ➗Students will continue to explore the concepts around multiplication and division.

They will do this through sharing a number of collections, skip counting and recording number sentences.

What can you do at home?

Talk with your child about making equal groups using everyday objects (like fruit, buttons, or socks). Practise sharing things fairly between people (e.g., "Let’s share these 12 grapes between 4 people—how many does each person get?"). Use words like “groups of,” “shared between,” and “equal parts” to build their understanding in a fun and natural way. Practise counting and skip counting patterns.

Grade Two:

✖️ ➗Students will continue to explore the concepts around multiplication and division.

The students will continue to use hands-on materials, visual models, and explore these concepts through real-life contexts. Students will be making equal groups, arrays, and exploring the connection that multiplication has to repeated addition. 

What can you do at home?

Support your child’s understanding of multiplication and division by exploring everyday situations involving equal groups and sharing. For example, ask questions like: “If we have 3 plates with 4 cookies on each, how many cookies altogether?” or “Can we share these 18 blocks equally between 3 people?” Encourage your child to use drawings, skip counting, or grouping objects to solve problems and talk through their thinking.

🧑‍💻 Cyber Safety 

This term we will be exploring Cyber Safety. 

Our focus this week will be how to stay safe online and understand why we keep our personal information private.

🌏 CBL - Change 

This term our whole school will be celebrating our school's 130th birthday. Our CBL big idea, Change, lends itself to discovering a lot about how Wonga Park has changed over this time. 

Students have engaged with two incredible films created by Mrs B, which explore the rich history of Wonga Park from the late 1800s through the 1900s. Through these films, students have developed a deeper understanding of what life was like for the early settlers, including families, students, and farmers. They have been especially fascinated by the historical photographs of our school and local surroundings, sparking curiosity and connection to the past

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

Upcoming events:

📚 Author Visit: Coral Vass Friday 15th August

🧜🏻‍♀️ 👷‍♂️Book Week Dress Up Parade: Friday 22nd August