Junior School Learning

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Please ensure that your child’s jumper is named so that it can be easily returned if they lose it. Check that their name is visible on a regular basis as names become faded over time and washes.

News from Prep/1

Reading

Last week in reading students investigated the /q/ phoneme (sound). Students were interested to learn that to make the /q/ phonemes they had to combine the /k/ & /w/ phonemes together. Students found all sorts of /q/ words and quickly discovered that each word used the spelling choice of qu e.g. queen, quail, quickly, squawking.

Students searched through their own texts and located many examples! 

Writing

On Tuesday last week our writing session focused on including detail in a recount about the long weekend. Students focused on including the when, who, where, what & why in their writing. Our remaining sessions focused on descriptive writing, students wrote a description about a friend using the description bubble. 

Numeracy

This week in numeracy we have continued to focus on addition and the strategies we can use when adding two collections together; counting all and counting on.  When counting all, we are counting each of the collections individually to find the total.  When counting on, we have been working on students being able to identify the bigger number and then counting on to find the total.    

News from 1/2

Literacy

In Reading, students have been learning how to make inferences so that they can comprehend information in their reading that is not directly stated. Students have been learning to use their own experiences and clue in the text to infer meaning. 

Writing

Over the last couple of weeks in Writing, students have been learning to write information reports about an animal they are familiar with. This week students learnt how to draw a labelled diagram of their animal. 

Numeracy

Students have been learning about the relationship between addition and subtraction. Students have learnt about fact families and how knowing one number sentence actually means that you know 4! Here are some amazing examples of students fact family houses.