Curriculum News

English

Reading and Viewing

The whole class reading strategies that we will focus on cover Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency and Expanded Vocabulary. This term the foci are:

• Spinning Spider: using prior knowledge to make connections
• Tommy the Tuning In Tiger: tuning into interesting words
• Peeking Poodle: checking both pictures and words for meaning
• Fix Up Bear: using a fix-up strategy when a text doesn’t make sense
• Digger Dog: digging for details that support the main idea
• Terrence the Smooth Talking Turtle: reading at the correct speed and volume.

Reading groups will commence from Week 1 with teachers working with small groups.

Writing

We will be revisiting writing to inform through labeling objects and the materials they are made from. This will lead us into procedural writing where we will write about how we have made a moving toy.

Our SMART Foundation program will recommence helping us to write words and sentences using the correct letter-sound combinations.

Handwriting will continue also with a focus on the letters R, P, M, N, V, K, H, Z, W, L.

Speaking and Listening

Language Experience will continue this term in Week 1. Each week there will be a theme/topic that directs them to what they will bring in or share. Students will be required to speak to the class about their item and answer questions from their classmates

Maths

Number and Algebra

All mathematics lessons will contain a short session of mental maths strategies such as dynamic counting and partitioning. Within Number, our focus will begin with the place value of numbers from 1-20. Students will continue their learning of addition including partitioning partitions of 5 and 10 and the combinations that these numbers can be broken into. This will lead us into the relationship between Addition and Subtraction.

Students will also explore money and financial mathematics this term. Students will also be exploring patterns including repeating patterns with 2D shapes.

Measurement and Geometry - 

Within measurement, students will be exploring time. They will focus on o’clock and be introduced to half past.

Students will revise their learning of 2D shape and 3D objects this term in geometry. We will then continue this focus to include transformation and tesselation of shapes.

Inquiry/RE

Science - Chemical

Curiosity Matters - Materials

We will commence the term with an Inquiry unit about materials. Students will learn about different kinds of materials, what everyday materials are and where we can find them. Students will learn that objects and materials can be sorted according to their properties. 

Science - Physical

On the Move - Forces

For the second half of the term, students will learn about the way objects move and how this depends on a variety of factors including their size and shape: a push or a pull affects how an object moves or changes shape. Students will learn about movement and change, ending with the design and production of a moving toy from each student.

Religion

Discipleship

Our main focus for this term is how we can be good disciples of Jesus. We will be exploring fairness, sharing and compassion in light of the story of Jesus. We will be interpreting what it means to be a disciple of Jesus and reflecting on how we could respond to the call of discipleship.