Level 1 & 2 

🧢HATS 

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

🗓️Upcoming Events:  

Mont De Lancey Historic Homestead Excusion 

• Grade Two: Tuesday the 28th October 
• Grade One: Thursday the 30th October 

**Please ensure your child is at school by 8:30am for an 8:50am departure**

We are also required to bring a 'nude food' lunch (no wrappers/rubbish) on the day.

Minibeasts Incursion 

• Grade One & Two: Thursday the 6th November 

Mount Evelyn Day Camp 

• Grade One: 
• Grade Two: Friday the 12th December 

Swimming Week (Week 7)

• Grade One & Two: Monday 17th November - Friday the 21st November

  Grade One: 1:00pm -1:45pm (bus departing WPPS at 12:30pm, returning at 2:20pm)

  Grade Two: 1:45pm - 2:30pm (bud departing WPPS at 1:15pm, returning at 3:05pm) 

Please see Sentral to give permission and make payment for these experiences.

CURRICULUM

📚LITERACY

📖UFLI:

Grade One Students 

This week the students will be learning more graphemes that spell the /or/ sound. 

The graphemes (letters) students will be focusing on are 'au'. 'aw' and 'augh'. 

This includes words such as: lawn, paw, hawk, awe, sauce, haul and caught.

Students will then be learning 'ea' spelling the short /e/ vowel sound, and 'a' spelling the short /o/ vowel sound. 

This includes words such as: head, bread, read, and watch, wash and swan. 

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

Grade Two Students 

This week the students will be learning about 'g' and 'c' making their soft sound when next to the vowels 'e', 'i', and 'y'. 

The graphemes (letters) students will be focusing on are 'gi', 'ge', 'gy', 'ci', 'ce', 'cy' .  

This includes words such as : energy, gym, gem, giant, city, cent and cyclone.

Students will then learn about alternate the silent letter graphemes 'gh' and 'gh', the silent 't', and 'ch' spelling /sh/ and /k/.

This includes the words such as: knot, reign, gnat, ghost, whistle, and listen. 

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

📔Mentor Text: 

This week's mentor text is 'Give Bees a Chance' by Bethany Barton.

This week, students will be reading Give Bees a Chance by Bethany Barton. This engaging picture book uses humour, facts, and persuasive techniques to encourage readers to see the importance of bees and why we should care for them. Building on last week’s learning, students will explore how the author uses persuasive writing techniques such as emotive language, strong arguments, and facts, to share a clear point of view.

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
• Have your children try to convince you of something using the persuasive techniques we have learnt 
• Have your child ask you questions about the books that they are reading.
• Before reading a book, have your child make predictions about the story line

🧮 Maths: 

Grade One Students: 

This week, Grade One students will be consolidating place value. They will be reading and writing two-digit numbers in both words and numerals, identifying and matching numbers represented in different ways, and learning to partition numbers in multiple ways. Students will also use partitioning to solve problems and investigate different skip counting patterns to reach target numbers. Throughout the week, they’ll practise skip counting by twos, fives and tens, and identify one more and one less from different starting points.

What can you do at home?

• Practise skip counting together by 2s, 5s and 10s — try counting while walking up stairs, bouncing a ball, or setting the table.
• Look for two-digit numbers around the house or in the community (on letterboxes, clocks, or price tags) and read them aloud.
• Play a game of “one more, one less” — say a two-digit number and have your child tell you what comes before or after it.

Grade Two Students: 

This week, Grade Two students will continue to explore fractions. They will explore the concept of symmetry and be introduced to equivalent fractions e.g. one half is the same as two quarters. 

What can you do at home?

• Look for shapes or objects around your home that can be divided into halves,  quarters or eighths. 

🌏 CBL:

Our new Big Idea: Discovery 🔍

To follow our Big Idea Discovery, we will be focussing on the world of 'Minibeasts'!

Students will be looking at the habitats of these creatures and how they survive.