What's Happening this Week at SPS

Prep

LITERACY: 

Week 1: ph and Week 2: wh

All Prep students are expected to reach at least Stage 5/6 by the end of Prep. Please help support your child to reach this Stage by practising Heart Words and sounds each night in your Homework Books. Please read each night with your child so they can be reading Stage 5/6 books by the end of Prep.

Students will learn to retell a story in order and answer questions about the text to show how well they understood the story. We will continue to write retells about different fairytales throughout the term, focussing on identifying the beginning, middle and end, characters, setting and problems.

MATH:  

Weeks 3 and 4:Introducing division (Sharing) and informal units of measurement

Please help support your child by counting forwards to 20 and backwards from 20-0. Help them count groups of objects up to 20.

INQUIRY: Topsy Turvy Fairytales – A Design and Technology Unit

Week 3: Creating and Designing 

Week 4: Building, Testing and Evaluating 

HOMEWORK: 

• Please read each night practise Heart Words and Sounds each night so your child can reach Stage 5/6 texts by the end of Prep and aim to reach at least 200 nights of reading for the year.

REMINDERS:

• Prep Swimming  - Monday 27th November to Friday 1st December 

We would love to have 2 helpers with Working with Children’s Checks to help each prep class. If you can help at the following times please let your child’s teacher know.

Thank you for your support 😊

Kristy Lund, Ebony Gruar, Anne Goodman and Felicity Elliott

Year 1

Year 2

LITERACY:

Reading - When reading, we are focusing on predicting within texts. In particular we are looking at if our predictions about a text are correct and why we thought so.

Writing - We are looking at all aspects of persuasive writing this term. In weeks 3 & 4 we will be continuing to work on persuasive writing, including our reasons why we support an idea. We will also focus on capital letters at the start of a sentence and for names of people and places.

Spelling - To read, write and spell words with the ture (mixture)and ure (pure)  grapheme (sound)  is our focus.

MATHS: We are continuing to explore division and will also introduce volume this fortnight. Students will Identify the quotient in a division sum as well as use skip counting to work out the answer to division sums. When introducing volume we will compare and order objects volume using informal units.

INQUIRY: This term we are exploring digital technology. Throughout the term students will identify how common digital systems are used to meet specific purposes. They will also create and organise ideas and information using information systems and share these in safe online environments.

HOMEWORK: Homework expectations are that students are completing home reading (at least every school night) and filling out their reading diary. Remember each student is aiming to get 200 nights of reading across the year to get a ticket to the Pizza Party at the end of this term! A reminder that your child also has a log in to mathseeds which they can access from home should they wish.

Our Mascots

Our Mascots are heading to your homes again during term 4. Bessy is going home with the children in 2MD and Bob is going home with the children in 2W. They will come home on a Wednesday and are expected to be returned on the following Monday. We have loved seeing what the mascots have been up to with the children so far and have seen some amazing handwriting from the children that they have then read and shared with their classes.

CONTACT: Please feel free to get in contact with your child’s classroom teacher/s via their emails below.

Kate McEvoy – Monday – Wednesday - kate.mcevoy@education.vic.gov.au

Mel Dowdle – Thursday & Friday - melissa.dowdle@education.vic.gov.au

Bec Whittingham rebecca.whittingham@education.vic.gov.au 

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5/6