Level1

Literacy

Reading: This term Level 1 students will continue to develop their reading and comprehension skills. We will revise all the reading strategies (ie, Chunky Monkey, Stretchy Snake, Flippy dolphin) to help decipher unknown vocabulary. Students will also further develop their comprehension skills with a particular focus on Making Connections (text to self and text to text), Identifying the Main Idea and Analysing the text.

Weekly focus:

Week 1: Making connections (text to self) & Chunky Monkey

Week 2: Making connections (text to self) & Eagle Eye

Week 3: Main Idea & Skippy Frog

Week 4: Main Idea & Lips the Fish

Week 5: Main Idea & Stretchy Snake

Week 6: Analysing & Flipping Dolphin

Week 7: Analysing & Tryin' Lion

Week 8: Analysing

Week 9: Making Connections (text to text)

Week 10: Making Connections (text to text)

Writing: In Term 2 students will continue to develop their understanding and use of different types of punctuation marks.

Students will create short imaginative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation. They will also learn how to retell common stories.

Weekly focus:

Week 1: Retell

Week 2: Retell

Week 3: Retell

Week 4: Retell

Week 5: Retell

Week 6: Narrative

Week 7: Narrative

Week 8: Narrative

Week 9: Narrative

Week 10: Narrative

Spelling: In Term 2, Level 1 students will continue working through the Jolly Phonics and Grammar Program. During spelling, we will pay particular attention to short and long vowels and double letter digraphs. Our grammar focus will be nouns and verbs and how they are used in writing.

Weekly focus:

Week 1: ar as in star and Proper nouns

Week 2: ff as in cliff and a or an

Week 3: zz as in buzz and Pronouns

Week 4: ck as is duck and Initial Blends

Week 5: y as in silly and Verbs

Week 6: Short Vowels and Verbs

Week 7: Long Vowels and Past Tense

Week 8: Long Vowels and Doubling

Week 9: Long Vowels

Week 10: Long Vowels

Thinking questions

What are you learning about at school?
Can you retell me the story we just read?
Who is the main character?
What happened in the beginning, middle and end of the story?
How do these characters feel?

Numeracy

This term we delve into Addition and Subtraction.

Students will be able to use the addition/subtraction strategies such as counting on, counting back, 10’s facts, using doubles/near doubles, skip counting and partitioning to solve simple addition/subtraction problems.

We will make models, write number sentences and read worded problems.

Our other focus will be Probability and Chance. Students will describe familiar events using everyday language such as ‘will happen’, ‘won’t happen’ or ‘might happen’.

Weekly focus:

Week 1: Revision of Place Value

Week 2: Addition strategies (counting on)

Week 3: Addition strategies (partitioning and tens facts)

Week 4: Addition strategies (doubles and near doubles)

Week 5: Addition strategies (build to ten)

Week 6: Linking addition and subtraction

Week 7: Subtraction

Week 8: Subtraction

Week 9: Subtraction

Week 10: Subtraction

Thinking Question

What numbers come before and after __?
How many tens and ones in this number?
How likely is it to ______ ?
What strategies are you learning about at school?
What strategy did you use to solve this problem?

Inquiry - Minibeasts

Our Inquiry topic this term is Minibeasts.

The skills we are focussing on are:

researching, investigating, sorting and finding relevant information to answer specific questions. We are aiming to develop our understandings and knowledge of minibeasts and develop our research skills.