Grade 1/2 News
Term 1, Week 2
Reminders:
Hats:As we are a proud SunSmart school, between September and April all students must be wearing a hat when playing outside. We ask that students leave their hats in the classroom at the end of each day to ensure they are at school and ready to use. Any students who do not have a hat will be asked to play in the shade in The Hub.
Drink Bottles: We encourage that where possible students have a labelled drink bottle filled with water each day.
Key Dates:
- Monday 10th February: Please have sent in a baby photo to your child's classroom teacher (see Mrs Brewer's Compass post for more info)
- Monday 10th March: Labour Day
- Wednesday 19th March: School Photos
Welcome
We welcome all families for the 2025 school year, we are looking forward to what we know we will be a fun, busy and exciting year.
We trust you all found the beginning of year interviews a valuable process just as we did. We look forward to continuing to get to know your child and family better over the next few weeks. If you have any questions or concerns at any stage throughout the year, we encourage you to get in touch with us via email or a phone. If it is something you think can be discussed quickly you can also pop into the classroom from 8.30am, however if you think it will require a longer time please let us know and we can make an appointment.
Our team and emails are as follows:
Kate Murphy: Kate.Murphy3@education.vic.gov.au
Tegan Edwards: Tegan.Edwards@education.vic.gov.au
Jane Rodda: Jane.Rodda@education.vic.gov.au
Jade Patrao-Hurley: Jade.Patrao-Hurley@education.vic.gov.au
Ashlea Lockett: Ashlea.Lockett@education.vic.gov.au
What we have been up to...
This week we have continued to engage in our Start Up program, where students are being reminded of our school values of Respect, Responsibility and Resilience and are working hard during class time to learn expectations and routines. There has also been lots of fun and getting to know you activities.
It has been wonderful to see how quickly the students are adapting to their new surroundings, class and routines and we are very proud of their efforts!
Upcoming Learning
Week 3 and 4
Reading, Writing and Spelling:
Our focus texts for the next fortnight are:
- Up and Down - by Oliver Jeffers
- A Walk in the Bush - by Gwyn Perkins
Students will practise using the reading strategies predicting, comparing and contrasting and also tuning into interesting vocabulary, whilst being read these books.
During Writing lessons students will be focusing on recount writing. Students will use a template which steps them through Who, What, Where and When, to support them when planning to write.
Phonemes for term 1 will include:
Week 3 - Revise short vowel sounds in CVC words e.g. dog, peg, big 💗 – back, went, with |
Week 4 - Split digraphs e.g. gave 💗 – came, time, made |
Week 5 – ai, ay, a_e 💗 – say, play, day |
Week 6 – ee, ea, e_e 💗 – seen, tree, week, please |
Week 7 – ie, y, igh 💗 – might, light, night |
Week 8 – oa, o_e, ow, o 💗 – know, show, snow |
Weeks 9 & 10: Revise based on student need
Mathematics: Students will continue to learn the routines for playing partner games in maths and will begin to explore the concept of gathering data when asking a yes/no question and then using this data to create a bar graph.
Topic: Our topic for the term is Me, My Places and Spaces. Students will engage in activities based on self, family, friends and community. In week 3 the focus will be on friendship and what makes a good friend and in week 4 we will begin to explore the idea of belonging to the local community.