Level 1 & 2 

Welcome to Week 6!

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.

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.

Hats: 

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

iPads:

iPads can now be brought to school if you have returned your Digital Technology Agreement. Please remember to stay safe before and after school while your iPads are in your bags.

CURRICULUM

Literacy

UFLI:

Grade One Students 

This week the students will be learning the 'FLZS' rule. When a one-syllable word ends in f, l, z, or s, we double the last letter after a short vowel.

This will includes words such as: off, fell, mess and jazz. 

They will then be learning how the vowels 'a', 'o' and 'u' make a different sound when followed by 'll'. 

This will include words such as: ball, small, roll and pull. 

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

Grade Two Students 

This week the students will be reviewing the VCe spelling pattern. Vowel-consonant-e (VCe) is a spelling pattern in which a silent 'e' at the end of a word signals a change from the short vowel sound to a long vowel sound (e.g. kit -> kite). 

This includes words such as: grade, these, shape, slide and drove. 

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

Mentor Text:

This week, students will explore the picture story book Meesha Makes Friends, a gentle story about friendship and belonging. Through a range of literacy activities, students will compare the text with another story, identify key ideas using GIST summaries, map the plot, and practise retelling the story orally and in writing. They will also complete an inferring task focused on understanding characters’ feelings using rich emotional vocabulary. These activities will support comprehension, sentence development, and social-emotional learning as students reflect on friendship and empathy.

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, students will be learning about two-digit numbers to 120. They will use place value charts to understand tens and ones, locate numbers to 100 on a number line, and practise comparing and ordering numbers. Students will also identify the value of each digit in two-digit numbers (for example, knowing the 4 in 47 means 40).

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, students will be learning about place value in three-digit numbers. They will partition numbers into hundreds, tens and ones using materials (MAB) and write numbers in expanded form, including non-standard forms. Students will also practise building, renaming and representing numbers in different ways using number boards and hands-on activities such as Race to 100 and Race back to 100.

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 outside settings, with a focus on 'play non-tackling games'. Students will also participate in bullying prevention activities and engage with picture storybooks that support respectful and safe behaviour.

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.