Level 1 & 2
What a way to begin Term Two, with our Grade Two students having their day camp experience at Mt Evelyn Discovery Camp!
Many thanks to all the parent volunteers who supported the day and to all the families who made the trip out to Mt Evelyn to pick their child up. This experience is a really valuable one, as this is where our Grade Two's will revist in Grade Three, for an overnight camp.
INFORMATION & REMINDERS
Term 2 Progress Interviews this Wednesday
Bookings are still open if you have not yet scheduled a Term 2 Progress Interview, and will close at 9pm tomorrow night. This is a great opportunity to ask questions and hear how your child is settling into school.
These are scheduled as ONLINE interviews and Webex links will be sent out before the meetings.
Home Learning.
Our Grade One and Two students bring home take home books on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights. We encourage you to read these books more than once with your child to build fluency.
One Friday, we will be sending home a 'homework book' with your child. In this book will be a hard copy of the following week's UFLI homework (which is usually shared here!) and a copy of your child's fluency reading. We would encourage you to read this text multiple times with your child to help build fluency. We will share with you in the following weeks different ways you could use this text at home.
Personal Belongings:
We are seeing an increase in personal belongings like footy cards, teddies, remote controlled cars and toys being bought to school. We strongly encourage students to leave these items at home as at times they can cause distress when they become lost or damaged and can distract students from learning time.
CURRICULUM
Literacy
UFLI: Grade One Students
This week the students will be continuing their work on digraphs focusing on ng and nk saying /n/.
What can you do at home?
- Optional UFLI Home Practice pages
UFLI: Grade Two Students
This week the students will be looking at ending spelling patterns - tch /ch/ like stitch and itch and dge /j/ like fridge and edge and then follow on with long VCC words with endings like -ild, -old, - ind, -olt and -ost).
What can you do at home?
- Optional UFLI Home Practice pages
Mentor Text: Are we there yet?
Students will begin to look at the book "Are we there yet?" by the Australian author, Alison Lester. Student will make predictions about the text, draw a picture of what they visualise from the story using the information in the text and find nouns, verbs and adjectives in the sentences.
What can you do at home?
While driving - have your child call out adjectives to describe the nouns you see.
Make predictions about the books you are reading together. Use questions like - After reading the title - What do you think this story will be about? What makes you think that?What do you think will happen next? Why?
Maths
Grade One Students
The Grade Ones are again exploring Place Value. Students will be recoding numbers using the digits 0-9 and also looking to recognise two digit numbers in words and numerals.
What can you do at home?
- MathsSeeds
- Play quick “subitising” games with dice or cards, asking how many dots or objects they see without counting.
- Look for two digit numbers in numerals and words in the 'environment' and ask your child to tell you the number.
Grade Two Students
The Grade Two students are also exploring Place Value. Students will be looking at three and four digit numbers, making, reading, writing and representing these. Students will use tools such as number lines, to help understand the 'place' of these numbers.
What can you do at home?
- Mathletics
- Look for two, three and even four digit numbers in numerals and words in the 'environment' and ask your child to tell you the number.
Wellbeing
This week in wellbeing we will be following the SWPBS focus of 'Being a Learner' thinking about how we can share equipment with others.
Students will also be completing a Cyber Safety Lesson which focuses on understanding that anything shared online can be online forever. This includes thinking about the word 'integrity' and what this means in regards to online usage.
What can you do at home?
- Encourage sharing of items at home
- Have a discussion about sharing in regards to sharing online. What is good to share with others about ourselves?
CBL
Our Big Idea for Term Two is Country.
Our Guiding Questions:
What is Country?
What is special about our Country?
How can we connect to Country?
Our Essential Question:
How do we respect Country?
Our Challenge:
Write an Acknowledgement of Country for our grade.