Level 1 & 2 

🧢HATS 

Please make sure that your child has their sun smart school hat at school each day!

🗓️Upcoming Events:  

Mount Evelyn Day Camp 

• Grade Two: Friday the 12th December 

Swimming Week (Week 7)

• Grade One & Two: Monday 17th November - Friday the 21st November

  Grade One: 1:00pm -1:45pm (bus departing WPPS at 12:30pm, returning at 2:20pm)

  Grade Two: 1:45pm - 2:30pm (bud departing WPPS at 1:15pm, returning at 3:05pm) 

'Onederful Day'

• Grade One Day Camp experience at School

Please see Sentral to give permission and make payment for these experiences.

💻 🎮 Online Safety Workshop - Thursday 13th November 6.00pm

We are excited to offer a special workshop - Together in Tech: Apple Tools for Families.

This is a free session for our community which will be held next Thursday 13th November, from 6.00 –7.30pm in the BER. The session will be run by the Cyber Safety Project.

Please see the attached PDF for full details. To help us with planning, we ask that you complete the survey if you are able to attend.

CURRICULUM

📚LITERACY

📖UFLI:

Grade One Students

Students will then be learning the silent letter graphemes kn spelling /n/, wr spelling /r/, and mb spelling /m/. 

These include words such as: knife, knight, writing, wrong, climb and thumb. 

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

Grade Two Students 

This week the students will be learning about the final stable syllables -ture. 

They will learn '-ture' spelling /cher/. This includes words such as: adventure, picture, future, posture, mixture.

They will then be learning about the suffixes -er, -or, and -ist and how these are added to verbs to show a person or thing that performs an action. This includes words such as baker, farmer, inventor, creator, dentist, and artist.

What can you do at home?

• Optional UFLI Home Practice pages

📔Mentor Text: 

This week's mentor text is 'Give Bees a Chance' by Bethany Barton.

Using the picture book Give Bees a Chance by Bethany Barton as inspiration, students will explore the important role bees play in the collection and production of honey. They will build their vocabulary, gather and organise facts, and learn how to present information clearly and logically. Through reading, discussion, and writing, students will deepen their understanding of how bees make honey and why they are so important to our environment.

What can you do at home?

• Nessy is a great literacy resource to use that supplements your child's reading in a fun engaging way on their iPad.
• Have your child ask you questions about the books that they are reading.
• Before reading a book, have your child make predictions about the story line

🧮 Maths: 

Grade One Students: 

This week in Maths, our Grade 1 students will continue their learning about time. They will explore how we measure and organise time by ordering events within a day and familiarising themselves with units such as seconds, minutes, hours, days, and weeks. Students will also begin learning to identify features of an analogue clock and tell time to the hour. Through hands-on activities and discussions, they will compare the duration of everyday events and develop a stronger sense of how time passes throughout the day.

What can you do at home?

• Encourage your child to notice clocks around the house and talk about what the hands show. 
• Ask questions like, “What time does school start?” or “What time do we eat dinner?” to help connect their learning to real-life routines.

Grade Two Students: 

This week in Maths, our Grade 2 students are beginning their new unit on Time. They will start by revising the months of the year and linking them to the four seasons. Students will explore how many days are in each month and learn to use calendars to identify days, dates, months, and special events. As their understanding grows, they will use real and classroom calendars to calculate how many days, weeks, and months are between different dates, building their confidence in using time to plan and organise events.

What can you do at home?

• Look at a family calendar together and talk about upcoming events or holidays.
• Ask your child to find today’s date or count how many days until a special event.
• Discuss how many weeks are left in the month or how many months until their birthday.
• Encourage your child to record important dates (like sports days or birthdays) on a calendar.

🌏 CBL:

Our new Big Idea: Discovery 🔍

To follow our Big Idea Discovery, we will be focussing on the world of 'Minibeasts'!

Students will be looking at the habitats of these creatures and how they survive.