Grade 1 and 2 News

Key Dates & Reminders: 

• Readers and Drink Bottles: Please ensure your child has their reader with them each school day, this is important as students use their books as part of our Read to Self time each day. It is also helpful that students have a drink bottle with them each day, this helps to minimise disruption to learning time.
• Reading Helpers: You should have received communication from your child's teacher regarding helping with reading beginning this term. If you have any queries regarding this please contact your child's classroom teacher.
• School Photos: Our school photos were taken on Wednesday this week, if you missed ordering prior to this day you can still order your child's photos, however an order for family photos needed to be placed prior to the day.

What we have been up to...

Easter Hat Parade and Cross Country

In the last week of term 1 it was terrific to see our students having lots of fun participating in the Cross Country and our annual Easter Hat Parade. There was lots of effort that had gone into creating the hats and we would like to thank our families for supporting their child/ren with this!

Our learning in week 1...

We welcome you all back for term 2, which promises to be a busy, fun and exciting term. We have begun the term learning about ANZAC Day, reading stories such as ANZAC Ted and ANZAC Biscuits. Students have then completed many related activities including designing their own ANZAC teddy and learning more about the meaning of the acronym, ANZAC.  

In Mathematics students have continued to focus on their number knowledge and have also discussed the names and attributes of 2D shapes.

Learning in Week 3 and 4

Reading, Writing and Spelling:  During Reading sessions we will be reading the book 'The Plot Chickens', students will identify the features and structures of a narrative text.

Writing lessons warm ups will focus on expanding sentences using our knowledge of nouns, verbs and adjectives. Students will then focus on developing their knowledge and skills of narratives. 

Our sound for week 3 is 'or' as in horse (ore, a, aw, au) and heart words are saw, more and before. In week 4 our sound is 'ir' as in bird (ur, er) and heart words are girl, first and her.

Mathematics: In Mathematics, students will practising their skip counting and partitioning skills. Students will be focusing on addition and subtraction, including the strategies friends of 10 (e.g. 7 and 3, 4 and 6), doubles and the relationship between addition and subtraction.

Topic: This term our unit will focus on Sustainability. Students will look at decomposition, the Earth's resources, Reducing, Reusing and Recycling. 

Rights, Resilience and Respectful Relationships: The overarching focus for Respectful Relationships this term isPersonal Strengths. Students will be involved in a range of games and activities which identify their personal strengths.