What's Happening this Week at SPS

Prep

LITERACY: 

Week 5:  Making Text to Self Connections

Week 6: Making Text to Text Connections

    Students will be completing a range of Assessment tasks over Weeks 5 and 6.   

MATH:  

Week 5: Assessment Week

Week 6: Fractions – Half and Revision of previously taught topics

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 5: Creating and Designing their second model.

Week 6: Building, Testing and Evaluating their second model.

HOMEWORK: 

• Please read each night and 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:

• Healthy Harold Life Education Incursion - PE 1st Nov, PA 2nd Nov, PL 3rd Nov and PG 8th Nov
• Melbourne Cup Day – Student Free Day on Tuesday 7th Nov
• Prep Swimming - Monday 27th November to Friday 1st December **Please note change off date

We would love to have 2 helpers a day 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 and working on our comprehension of written text. We are conducting some formal assessment with students over the next few weeks to assist with report writing.

Writing - We are looking at all aspects of persuasive writing this term. In weeks 5 & 6 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 as well as punctuation including full stops, commas and exclamation marks.

Spelling - To read, write and spell words with the est (cutest)and o(front)  grapheme (sound)  is our focus.

MATHS: We are looking at patterns over the next few weeks including odd and even numbers and missing elements. We are also looking at transformation including investigating the effect of one-step slides and flips with and without digital technologies as well as identify and describe half and quarter turns.

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

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN Year 3 

Weeks 5 and 6, Term 4 

Hello Year 3 families, 

What a busy start to the term…. we have to firstly say how proud we were of all of the Year 3 students who attended Lord Somers Camp! They were absolutely amazing and the feedback we received from the camp staff was that the students at SPS were well mannered, enthusiastic and accepted all challenges asked of them with a growth mindset! We were so lucky with the weather and it was lovely to see many new friendships develop over the 3 days. 

Learning Foci 

Reading: We are continuing to learn about identifying persuasive techniques in texts and how this can impact the audience’s perceptions. This week we are reading and learning all about Tasmania and in Week 6 we are researching the Northern Territory. Identifying the natural landforms as well as famous man made features will continue to be a focus. 

Spelling: Students are learning to make new words by building on a base. EG: ‘book’ bookcase, book shelf. They will learn about compound words, suffixes, prefixes and applicable spelling rules. 

Writing: This week, we are writing persuasive postcards! Students will write a postcard, persuading someone that Somerville PS is the best school to attend. They will work through the writing process, with a specific focus on correct structure and word choice. Number and Algebra: In Numeracy, students are continuing to recognise, model and represent unit fractions including 1/2, 1/4, 1/3, 1/5 and their multiples to a complete whole. 

Volume and Capacity: Over the next few weeks we are learning all about Volume and Capacity. Students are learning to measure, order and compare objects using familiar metric units of capacity. 

REMINDERS 

➔ Just a reminder that it is Term 4 and students need to wear a hat each day, regardless of the weather. 

➔ We have the HEALTHY HAROLD incursion happening over the next 2 weeks. Please ensure that you have paid for this through Compass. 

➔ Don’t forget that next Tuesday 7th November is a Public Holiday for the Melbourne Cup. 

Kind regards, Year 3 team (Prue, Donna and Sarah)

Year 4

Year 5/6