Level 1 & 2 Wonga Weekly

🗓️. Upcoming Dates:

Thursday 15th May: Volunteer Childsafe Session (online) 5-5.30pm

Monday 19th May: Curriculum Day

Start of the day 

To help our mornings run smoothly, we kindly ask that students are ready to enter the classroom at 8:50am when the bell goes. This gives them time to unpack, settle in, and be ready to start learning right on time at 9:00am. We really appreciate your support with this!

iPads & Headphones

Students have been using their iPads more for learning in the classroom. To assist with this can you please ensure the following:

-iPads come to school fully charged every day, this ensures that the iPad is ready for use when we use them, often iPads will be used for learning tasks and if a student doesn't bring their iPad (often leaving the student sad too!) 

-screen time passcodes are deactivated during the school day

-safari is downloaded on your child's device

-if your child has headphones they may like to bring these in to assist when completing independent tasks on their iPads 

CURRICULUM

📚 Phonemic awareness: reading and phonics

Please see below our phonics focus for this week and our literacy focus. 

Grade One Students 

Grade One's will be completing lesson 54 a_e and lesson 55 i_e. They will be learning about vowel-consonant-e (VCe) which is a spelling pattern in which a silent e at the end signals a change from the short vowel sound to a long vowel sound (e.g., kit → kite).

What can you do at home?

Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

Grade Two Students 

Grade Two's will be completing lesson 77 ar and lesson 79 ar, or, ore, controlled vowels. When a vowel is followed by an R, the sound of the vowel often changes and is said to be controlled by the vowel.  There are three main r-controlled vowel sounds:  the /ar/ sound, as in barn; the /or/ sound, as in corn; and the /er/ sound, as in fern, bird, and curl.

What can you do at home?

Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

 📖✏️Literacy

Mentor Text:  Up a rainforest tree (non fiction)

Students will continue to study our non fiction text 'up a rainforest tree'. Students will be learning about at the layers of a rainforest trees and identifying animals that live there, how they survive and what they need. We will be delving into the vocabulary used in the book and how to use the glossary to understand the meaning. 

We will also be creating an information text using information they have learnt about rainforests, using features like diagrams and labels to help explain ideas. 

What can you do at home?

-Read non-fiction texts as well as fiction texts

Chat and notice any interesting nouns and adjectives around you. 

-Ask when looking at stories if the story is fiction or non fiction and why. 

-Ask comprehension questions about your child's take home book or a book you read together

➕Maths

Grade One and Two students are focusing on addition and the strategies  we can use to solve addition problems such as counting on, friends of 10, part part whole etc. 

What can you do at home?

-Continue to skip count by 2s, 5s and 10 orally when counting objects 

-Compare different numbers - which is bigger or smaller? How do you know?

-Engage with mathseeds (Grade One) or mathletics (Grade Two)

🌏 CBL - Diversity 

We are looking at the celebrations we have within our school community and compare with the ways we celebrate special events and celebrations in your home. 

Wellbeing 

This week we will be completing a short session of Respectful Relationships, students will become 'strengths detectives' and describe some actions that make them feel proud and identify some strengths they use at school. 

School Wide Positive Behaviour: Our students will review how to be safe, be a learner and be kind outside during play times. We will focus on role modelling and role playing scenarios to highlight various skills such as: including others, sharing, playing by the rules,  finding friends to play, compromises when it comes to play, safe play games and ideas and how to ask for help. 

What can you do at home?

-Discuss games and ideas that you child can play outside 

Hats 

Hats will be sent home as we no longer need them during playtimes. Your child won't need their hat until September. Please check if your child's hat is clearly labelled before returning it to school next Term. 

Tissues and Wipes 

Coming in to winter, it would be appreciated if you could please send along some more tissues and wipes for your child's classroom.