Level 1 & 2 Wonga Weekly

********** GRADE TWO CAMP DAY **************

This exciting opportunity is happening in just over a week!!

We need Grade Two families to:

• Make sure they have read through the information on Sentral - paid and given permission
• Return the forms sent home with your child last week - These include Dietary requirements, pick up arrangements and a medical form.

Upcoming Dates:

Monday 9th December - Christmas Carols

Tuesday 10th December - Grade Two Day Camp at Mt Evelyn

Friday 20th December - Last Day for 2024

CURRICULUM

📚 Phonemic awareness: reading and phonics

To support our work using the UFLI program students use their iPad's twice a week to manipulate letters and sounds on a blending board. We would appreciate iPads coming to school fully charged each day.

 Students will complete two sounds this week.

Grade One Students are looking at /oo/ as in  book and /oo/ as in moon. Students will read decodable words, phrases and texts. They will learn the following heart words: poor, door, floor, won and son

What can you do at home?

-Assist your child to read their 'take home' book each night 

-Help your child learn to read and spell their Heart Words 

Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

Grade Two Studentswill continue to practice doubling of letters or dropping the e when adding endings. Students will read decodable words, phrases and texts. They will learn the following heart word: build, built and sure.

What can you do at home?

-Assist your child to read their 'take home' book each night 

-Help your child learn to read and spell their Heart Words 

Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

 📖✏️Literacy

Students will be reading a several books by the author Oliver Jeffers, begin with his book 'How to Catch a Star."

This will give students an opportunity to sequence a story, but then also compare his stories and find similarities between them.

What can you do at home?

-Enjoy other books written by Oliver Jeffers

-Compare books you may have at home, written by the same author

➕Maths

Students will use math understanding from throughout the year, such as counting, the four operations and place value, to continue their learning about Australian Money. 

What can you do at home?

-Give students a handful of coins to count

-Compare coins from Australia and ones you may have from different countries

-Compare different ways you can make an amount of money.

🌏 CBL - Curiosity

Our Term Four Big Idea is Curiosity. Students will continue to look at the different planets in our solar system, researching, teaching and learning from others.

Students are still encouraged  to make observations  of the moon at home. All students should now have their recording sheet at home and we hope you have been able to spot the moon in the night, or day, sky!

👒SUNSMART

We would like to remind you that ALL students are required to wear a broad-brimmed hat when outdoors from the 1st September, when UV levels are typically higher. Please ensure your child brings a hat to school every day to protect them from the sun's harmful rays.