What a fabulous term it has been so far! We can't believe it is already week 8.

The students loved learning about Bunjil and Waa at the 'First Nation Incursion' on Tuesday. If you look carefully you might be able to spot their beautiful murals in the BER at the next indoor assembly!

INFORMATION & REMINDERS

Upcoming Incursions

We are excited for our next incursion on the 15th of June, we will be welcoming an educator from Drama Toolbox who will guide students through the much loved story of Tiddalick. Many thanks to the families who have already given permission and payment.

Personal Belongings:

We are seeing an increase in personal belongings like footy and Pokemon cards, teddies, squishy toys, 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.

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 send home a 'Home Learning book' with your child with a hard copy of the following week's UFLI home practice sheets 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.

Please see below some information about the UFLI at home learning and ways you can use it.

Using the Fluency Passage

The fluency passage in the home learning book is an important part of our UFLI program. Students will read these passages in classroom to a partner throughout the week.

Ways in which you can use these at home -

You read the text to your child - modelling fluent and expressive reading.
Your child reads the text to you.
Encourage your child to draw a picture in the box, based on the story.
Look through the story for words with the sound pattern we are focusing on - underline/highlight them, rewrite them, use them in a sentence.
Look through the story for the new irregular words - or previously taught irregular words.

CURRICULUM

Literacy

UFLI: Grade One Students

This week the students will be exploring words with the suffix -es. Then they will continue onto the -ed suffix.

UFLI: Grade Two Students

This week the students will be reviewing all the vowel teams they have learned over the past few weeks. They they will begin to look at u and oo spelling the /oo/ sound.

What can you do at home?

Optional UFLI Home Practice pages found in their home learning book.

Mentor Text: Back on Country

This week students will continue to be looking at the book 'Back on Country' by Australian authors Adam Goodes and Ellie Laing and Illustrated by David Hardy. Students will be developing literacy skills such as visualising, comparing and editing.

What can you do at home?

When reading at home ask questions about the text they're reading.
- Example: What happened first in the story? What's the problem in the story? Who is your favourite character and why?
While driving - have your child call out adjectives to describe the nouns you see.

Maths

Grade One Students

The Grade One students will continue their exploration of addition and subtraction. This week the focus will be building and strengthening strategies.

What can you do at home?

MathsSeeds
Use small snacks such as crackers, grapes, or cereal pieces.
- Begin counting up a group of snacks with your child.
- Eat or remove some. Ask: “How many are left?”
- Discuss what strategies they used

Grade Two Students

This week, our Grade Two students will continue exploring addition and subtraction concepts. Starting with strategies such as doubles, near doubles, halving, counting on, counting back, bridging to 10 and using the jump strategy with number lines.

What can you do at home?

Mathletics - The "To do list" on their login screen will have some addition and subtraction challenges.
Ask your child simple maths questions in the car and encourage them to explain which strategy they used.
Examples:
- “Double 6 is?”
- “What’s 9 + 10?”
- “If you had 15 lollies and ate 4, how many are left?”

Wellbeing

This week in Wellbeing, students will be doing Cyber Safety where they are identifying where AI can be found in our homes, at school and in public places.

What can you do at home?

Go on an AI hunt with your child and see how many examples of AI you can find around your home or community. Some examples might include:

Voice assistants (such as Siri or Google Assistant)
Streaming services that recommend shows or movies
Smart TVs or smart speakers
Robot vacuum cleaners
Navigation apps that suggest routes

CBL

This week students will start to explore different examples of acknowledgments of Country, to continue working towards their end of term challenge.

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.

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