Level 1 & 2 

🧢HATS 

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

🗓️Upcoming Events:  

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

Christmas Carols 

• Wednesday 3rd December

Whole School Silent Disco 

• Wednesday 10th December 

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

CURRICULUM

📚LITERACY

📖UFLI:

Grade One Students 

This week students will then be learning the suffix -ly meaning 'like or manner of', and how these words are usually adverbs. This includes words such as: quickly, slowly, safely. 

They will then be learning the suffixes -less meaning 'without', and -ful meaning 'full of'. This includes words such as: painless and painful, useless and useful, harmless and harmful. 

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

Grade Two Students 

This week the students will be learning the suffix -ness meaning 'state of or the way something is'. This includes words such as: darkness, kindness and sickness. 

They will then be learning the suffix -ment meaning 'the result, state, or act of'. This includes words such as: assessment, movement, payment and commitment.  

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

📔Mentor Text: 

This week in Literacy, our students will be exploring the mentor text "The Girl Who Loves Bug" to support our CBL Big Idea "Diversity" and our study on Minibeasts. Students will build their understanding of narrative structure, looking closely at the story’s orientation, conflict and resolution. Students will be deep diving into fun scientific vocabulary ending in -ology and -ologist, helping students learn how people study different parts of the world. Alongside this, students will explore the setting and characters, identifying how authors use description to bring stories to life. This text provides wonderful opportunities for rich discussion, curiosity, and creative thinking.

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.