Level 1 & 2 Wonga Weekly

📚 Reading 

We will be looking at the importance of inferring - inferring is when you use the clues in the picture or text towork out something when it hasn't been explained or has been implied but not directly stated. When looking at pictures, students will consider, "What do I see? What do I already know? What can I infer?" When looking at texts students will consider, "what words or phrases help me to understand the text.

What can you do at home?

-Log into Reading Eggs and find a suitable text 

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

-Help your child to read with expression and fluency as they read. 

-Ask questions of your child about what they believe the text is about, what they understand is happening and why.

🔡 Phonics 

This week we will be learning the digraph of  'oi/oy' (as in noisy toys). A digraph is two letters that make one sound.

What you can do at home?

-What words can you find that have 'oi' and 'oy' in your take home books?

-Notice where in the word the digraphs occur to help you child when thinking about  spelling with this sound.

📝 Writing 

Students will unpack the structure and conventions of narrative writing. We will firstly look at how a narrative is created and begin to plan a story that includes characters, setting, orientation, complication and resolution 

What can you do at home?

-Check your child is using the correct pencil grip (pointer finger on top).

-Practise writing sentences with a capital letter at the beginning of the sentence and a full stop at the end.

-Encourage correct formation of letters.

-Unpack the stories you read with your child/ren to name the characters, setting, beginning, middle (problem) and end.

🔢  Maths 

We will be working on multiplicative thinking, starting with a revisit of skip counting, building the connection to repeated addition and the concept of counting in units other than 1 eg 4 fives or 4 twos. We are also looking at all aspects of measurement over the coming weeks, including length, mass, volume, area, capacity and time.

What can you do at home? 

-Explore the Mathseeds app on the iPad. You might want to choose games / tasks that involve the concept of groups of/multiplication or any of the measurement activities.

🌏 CBL - Discovery 🔎

We will be discovering all about our family's history and where our parents and grandparents originally came from

Session 2: My favourite family traditions/celebrations and why does your family do it? 

👯‍♀️ Friendology

We have officially completed the Friendology course. However, each week we continue to review relevant lessons and ideas to assist with the social development of our students, especially as they start to transition to their new grades towards the end of the year . 

Upcoming Dates

Tuesday 17th October - Cyber Safety Webinar - Digital Balance & Wellbeing 7.30pm

Thursday 19th October - Breast Cancer Awareness Fundraiser 

Monday 30th October - Friday 3rd November - Book Fair @ WPPS