Level 1 & 2 

Wow! It's week five!

Students are settling into classroom routines and have had the opportunity to learn and participate in play with members of their class and their grade community! We will continue to give opportunities for students to revisit our School Wide Positive Behaviour Support expectations and practise behaviours that help us build our classroom environment and our relationships with others to support our learning!

Please find the link from our recent Grade One and Two information session that you may like to watch.

https://vimeo.com/1165221736/ba388f038b?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

Specialist Timetable

Please find the current timetable below.

🧢HATS 

Please make sure that your child has their sun smart school hat at school each day!

🚨REMINDERS

Reading pockets: 

• Please ensure you have your child's reading pockets and they are being brought to school every day. This helps establish consistent routines and supports the development of positive, lifelong homework and learning habits.

Digital Technology Agreement 

• A reminder that the digital technology agreement sheets need to be signed and returned back to your classroom teacher. 

CURRICULUM

📚LITERACY

📖UFLI:

Grade One Students 

This week students will be reviewing the short 'e' vowel sound.

This includes words such as: get, send, men and next.

They will then be reviewing all short vowel sounds. These include the short 'e', 'a', 'o', 'i' and 'u' vowel sound. 

This includes words such as: left, bat, lost, gift and cups. 

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

Grade Two Students 

This week the students will be reviewing the previously learnt diagraphs 'ck', 'sh', 'th' and ch'. 

This will includes words such as: duck, sheep, thumb, then and chicken. 

They will then continue to review the previously learnt diagraphs 'wh', 'ph', 'ng', 'nk', 'sh+r', and 'th+r'.

This will include words such as: whistle, phone, ring, think, shrimp and three. 

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

📔Mentor Text: 

This week in Literacy, our students will be exploring the mentor text "The Invisible Boy" by Patrice Barton. Through the story, they are identifying character traits, finding common and proper nouns in sentences, expanding emotion vocabulary, and inferring how characters feel using clues from the text and illustrations. We are also discussing the important lessons the story teaches about kindness, empathy, and including others.

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.
• Read a story together and identify the characters and setting.
• Ask your child to retell the story in order (beginning, middle, end).
• Talk about how the characters might be feeling and ask, “How do you know?"
• Discuss ways to include others and show kindness

🧮 Maths: 

Grade One Students: 

This week in Maths, our Grade 1 students will explore two-digit numbers. They will use base-10 blocks and other materials to understand tens and ones, break numbers apart with number bonds, and represent numbers in different ways. They will also practise comparing and ordering numbers and identifying the value of each digit, building a strong foundation for addition, subtraction, and place value.

What can you do at home?

• MathsSeeds
• Practise counting forwards and backwards together, starting from different numbers
• Count everyday items (toys, pasta, blocks) and bundle them into groups of ten
• Play simple counting or bundling games 

Grade Two Students: 

This week in Maths, our Grade 2 students will focus on three-digit numbers. They will practise reading, writing, comparing, and ordering numbers using numerals, words, number lines, and charts. They will also explore partitioning numbers into hundreds, tens, and ones, and represent them in both standard and non-standard expanded form, building a deeper understanding of place value.

What can you do at home?

• Mathletics 
• Ask your child to read and write three-digit numbers in words and numerals.
• Encourage your child to break numbers into hundreds, tens, and ones and write them in expanded form.
• Play simple number games, like “Who has the bigger number?” to make learning fun.

Wellbeing ❤️

This week, our SWPB focus is “Be Safe” in all settings, with a focus on playing fairly and sharing play spaces. 

🌏 CBL:

Our new Big Idea: Community 🏘️

Our Big Idea for this term is Community. Students will be exploring the many different communities they are apart of and value. 

This week, we will read the picture story book 'Circles All Around Us', focusing on the different “bands” of community, from family and friends to their wider world. 

They will also interview members of our community to learn how their jobs support others and to gather more information about the important roles people play.

 We look forward to sharing some of the students reflections from our CBL sessions.