Year 1/2

Year 1/2 Cluster News Term 4 Week 3

Sunscreen, hats and water bottles 

Please apply sunscreen andensure hats and water bottles are sent to school every day. 

Please have a talk to your child about ‘staying in your bubble’, using ‘safe hands’ and ‘kind words’ and not reacting when we are offend. The highlighted words are the vocabulary we use in class. We also talk about boundaries in the Keeping Safe: Child Protection Curriculum and encourage children to communicate times they are feeling uncomfortable and being aware of others’ boundaries. We have been reminding the class regularly, however some children are still not doing this.  

Toddle  

The purpose of ‘Toddle’ is to demonstrate a snapshot of student work throughout the term, which complements the Semester Reports. At times, students may say they have uploaded their learning but you may not see it straight away for various reasons, such as teacher workload or not all students having uploaded as yet. 

Our cluster as decided to regularly do a quick post about events which may include photos of the whole class undertaking their learning, as well as posts during the term for English, Mathematics, Unit of Inquiry (which includes HASS and Science, Health, the Arts), Christian Studies and Design & Technology. 

Photos and stories   

Last call to please send in photos and stories about your child’s birth or how they came to be in their families. This is to highlight how birth/fostering/adoption is celebrated in families and religious groups and is part of our Christian Studies unit. The children will include photos and stories in a book about themselves. 

Ask – to borrow or donate 

We are in need of old style items from the past e.g. telephones, clothes, transport models, toys, musical instruments, computer parts or games such as marbles. If you have anything we could use, we would appreciate being able to borrow these items or if you are no longer need them and would like to donate them, we would happily take them. 

Home Inquiry – Use a catalogue or visit the shops. Can you work out the cost of groups of objects e.g. A box of shapes costs $2. How much will 5 cost? 

Read your take home book or library books or home books - Approx. 10 minutes each night.  

On Monday mornings, Take Home Books are changed over.   

On Thursdays, both classes visit the Library for borrowing.   

Sound of the week - See the weekly sound and spelling list below. Students can practise these in a variety of ways (look, say, cover, write, check, chalk, whiteboard writing, magnetic letters - be creative!) The aim is to practise the words both by writing and orally. Have a go at brainstorming other words that have the same sound.

Term 4: Week 4 Program Learning 

Literacy: 

In Readers Workshop, students will continue to develop comprehension strategies including making connections, predicting, inferring, questioning, monitoring, visualising, summarising. 

In Writers Workshop, students are learning to write persuasive texts. 

Spelling 

Example word lists consist of revision words, sound of the week words and tricky words. 

Maths Focus: 

Year 1 and Year 2 students will use their understanding of repeated addition and groups (multiplication) with whole amounts of money. 

Unit of Inquiry: Where We Are in Place and Time 

Central Idea: The way people live has changed over time 

We inquire into… 

LOI 1: Past and present 

LOI 2: Things that have remained the same over time 

LOI 3: Things that have changed over time 

Students are taking part in provocation activities to ‘take them back in time’ through a ‘time portal’ and look at how people used to do things like communicate, transportation,  

Reminders and information 

Please check the rest of the school newsletter for further news. 

May God bless your week, 

Mel Arnold, Ellen Zimmer, Emily Gower  

Mel Arnold arnold.melanie@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

Ellen Zimmer zimmer.ellen@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

Emily Gower gower.emily@goldengrove.sa.edu.au