Level 1 & 2 

🧢HATS 

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

🗓️Upcoming Events:  

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) 

Mount Evelyn Day Camp 

• Friday the 12th December - Grade Two Day Camp experience at Mount Evelyn 

'Onederful Day'

• Wednesday 26th November - Grade One Day Camp experience at School

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

CURRICULUM

📚LITERACY

📖UFLI:

Grade One Students 100 

This week students will then be learning that the suffix -er means more than, and -er means the most when added to adjectives. 

Examples of this are: 

     big - bigger - biggest

     loud - louder - loudest

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

Grade Two Students 122, 123

This week the students will be learning about the suffix -ish meaning 'somewhat like or likely to'. 

Examples of this are: 

    green - greenish 

    child - childish 

They will then be learning that the suffix -y means 'full of or described as'. 

Examples of this include:

   rain - rainy 

   wind - windy 

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

📔Mentor Text: 

This week in Literacy, our students will be exploring a swimming-themed poem that links perfectly with Swimming Week. Students will learn how poets use rhyme and expressive vocabulary to help readers visualise the actions, feelings, and movement in a poem.

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 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 in Maths, our Grade 1 students will continue developing their understanding of time. They will learn to draw the hands on an analogue clock to show times to the hour and begin estimating how long different activities take in minutes and hours.

What can you do at home?

• Read the clock together: Point out times on analogue clocks and talk about where the hands are when it’s o’clock.
• Talk about daily routines: Ask questions like “What time do we eat dinner?” or “What time do you go to bed?” to help your child connect time to real-life events.

Grade Two Students: 

This week in Maths, our Grade 2 students will be continuing to explore the unit of time. They will begin exploring how clocks work and how we read time to the hour and half hour. Students will learn about the features of an analogue clock, including the hour and minute hands, and how these move to show the passing of time. They will construct their own clocks to support their understanding of o’clock and half past times. Students will then use these to demonstrate how the movement of the minute hand shows the passing of time. 

What can you do at home?

• Practise with an analogue clock: If you have one at home, ask your child to show you different times such as 3 o’clockor half past 7.
• Ask your child to find today’s date or count how many days until a special event.
• Discuss how many weeks are left in the month or how many months until their birthday.
• Encourage your child to record important dates (like sports days or birthdays) on a calendar.

🌏 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.