Grade 1/2 News
Term 2, Week 2
Reminders:
Excursion: Are we there yet? Permission and information: If you have not already provided consent for this excursion could you please do this as soon as possible. Thank you to the families who have already completed this.
Students will depart school via bus at 10:45am to Rosalind Park to have an early lunch in the park. Following this, the students will walk back to the Capital Theatre for the performance. The bus will then pick up at 1pm and return to school. The $16 cost for this excursion covers transport and entry into the performance.
On the day we ask that students please bring their lunch in a clearly labelled disposable bag (we will carry the lunches in tubs and this will help to lighten the load!). Students will also need to have a clearly labelled drink bottle with them for the day. Thank you for your support with this! |
What we have been up to..
Students have been getting back into routines in the classroom and have all settled back in well for what promises to be a short, but busy term!
Last Friday, we were lucky enough to have some of the Bendigo Braves players volunteer to cut up our fresh fruit. They also visited some classrooms to say hello and chat about their basketball. Students enjoyed the opportunity to ask questions such as How many goals you have shot, How often do you train and Can you dunk?
This term we will complete many science experiments as part of our unit on 'Stimulating Science'. This week students have begun testing a hypothesis - by predicting and then finding out, how quickly different objects fall over a metre.
Learning in Weeks 3 & 4
Mathematics: Week 3 in Mathematics will see our students complete a series of lessons focused on data. Students will have the opportunity to choose a question that they want to investigate further and gather data on. They will then use this data to create a graph and then use the graph to interpret their results.
In week 4 students will begin to explore the concept of time looking at days of the week, months and seasons, before moving into telling the time using analogue and digital clocks. In grade 1 it is important for students to be able to read o'clock times and also half past, whilst also understanding the different parts of a clock and how they contribute to the telling of time. Grade 2 students, they need to be able to tell the time to the quarter hour, using the language 'past' and 'to'.
Time is a great concept to be practising often at home, looking at the time you go to bed, the time you wake up, play sport or do after school activities and also recognising that time is a measurement e.g. there is 10 minutes until your favourite t.v. show is on.
English: During Reading lessons students will be using the strategies 'Recognise literary elements' (genre, plot, character, setting, problem/resolution) and also 'Use prior knowledge to predict and connect with the text.
In week 3, students will be learn more about the phoneme 'or' and the most common spelling choices (or, ore, a, aw, au) and will be practising high frequency words saw, more and before.
In week 4, students will practise the 'ir' sound and most common spelling choices (ir, ur and er). They will use this knowledge to support them in learning and practising the high frequency words girl, first and her.
Our Writing lessons will begin to focus on persuasive writing. Students will learn about the structure of a persuasive piece of writing and will practise forming opinions on different topics.
Topic: Over the next fortnight we will look at the Biology strand of science. Students will explore language related to biology, look at the characteristics of living and non-living things and the features of plants.