Level 1 & 2
Welcome to week 3!
Thank you to all the supporters who came to cheer on everyone at cross country on Friday. The students had a blast showing of their running skills and your support to our students means a lot!
INFORMATION & REMINDERS
Star of the Week
Over the next few weeks, our classes will begin Star of the Week. Each student will have a special opportunity to share about their life with the class. This is a wonderful way for students to build confidence, practise their speaking and listening skills, and learn more about one another. We’re excited to celebrate each child and give them their moment to shine. Please look out for the special notice that will come home with your child, when it is their turn. It will give you instructions on what is to be shared on each day.
Class Pet
We are also excited that each week, one student will have the chance to take our special class pet (a special teddy) home. This is a fun way for students to practise responsibility, storytelling, and sharing about their lives.
When it’s your child’s turn, they can take the class pet on small adventures at home. This may be reading together, helping with a hobby, or simply spending time as part of the family. When they return to school, they’ll share a page in the class pet journal with photos and captions about the adventures they had.
Home Learning.
Our Grade One and Two students bring home take home books on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights. We encourage you to read these books more than once with your child to build fluency.
On Friday, we sent home a 'Home Learning book' with your child. In this book will be a hard copy of the following week's UFLI homework (which is usually shared here!) and a copy of your child's fluency reading. We would encourage you to read this text multiple times with your child to help build fluency. We will share with you in the following weeks different ways you could use this text at home.
Personal Belongings:
We are seeing an increase in personal belongings like footy cards, teddies, remote controlled cars and toys being bought to school. We strongly encourage students to leave these items at home as at times they can cause distress when they become lost or damaged and can distract students from learning time.
CURRICULUM
Literacy
UFLI: Grade One Students
This week the students will be reviewing previously learnt digraphs. These include sh, ck, th, ph, wh, ng and nk. Then student will be learning a_e spelling /a/ when there is a final e.
UFLI: Grade Two Students
This week the students will be reviewing previously learnt endings patterns. These include -ild, -old, -olt, -ost, -le and -y. Then students will be learning or, ore saying /or/.
What can you do at home?
- Optional UFLI Home Practice pages found in their home learning book.
Mentor Text: Are we there yet?
Students will continue to look at the book "Are we there yet?" by the Australian author, Alison Lester. Following the recount style of the text, studentswill have the chance to practice writing recounts of events in their lives, such as a cross country, recess and what they ate for breakfast.
What can you do at home?
While driving - have your child call out adjectives to describe the nouns you see.
Make predictions about the books you are reading together. Use questions like - After reading the title - What do you think this story will be about? What makes you think that?What do you think will happen next? Why?
Maths
Grade One Students
The Grade Ones are continuing exploring Place Value. Students will be recoding numbers using the digits 0-9 and also looking to recognise two digit numbers in words and numerals.
What can you do at home?
- MathsSeeds
- Play quick “subitising” games with dice or cards, asking how many dots or objects they see without counting.
- Look for two digit numbers in numerals and words in the 'environment' and ask your child to tell you the number.
Grade Two Students
The Grade Two students are again exploring Place Value. Students will be looking at three and four digit numbers, making, reading, writing and representing these. Students will use tools such as number lines, to help understand the 'place' of these numbers.
What can you do at home?
- Mathletics
- Look for two, three and even four digit numbers in numerals and words in the 'environment' and ask your child to tell you the number.
Wellbeing
This week in wellbeing we will be following the SWPBS focus of 'Being Safe' thinking about how we can keep our workspaces tidy and push our chairs in.
Students will also be completing a 'Respectful Relationships' lesson, which focuses on cheering up and calming down. This lesson will be giving students strategies to cope with hard emotions.
What can you do at home?
- Have discussions about what helps them calm down when they feel overwhelmed or what helps them cheer up when they feel sad.
- Encourage your child to take care of spaces at home.
CBL
Our Big Idea for Term Two is Country.
Our Guiding Questions:
What is Country?
What is special about our Country?
How can we connect to Country?
Our Essential Question:
How do we respect Country?
Our Challenge:
Write an Acknowledgement of Country for our grade.
Students have been looking at our country, Australia and where it is placed in our wor