Level 1

Welcome to Term 4.

We are looking forward to a fun filled term together.

Reading

This term Level 1 students will continue to strengthen their understanding of comprehension strategies such as solving unknown words, identifying facts and opinions as well as summarising. We will further develop the students’ confidence in reading both independently and with others. Students will focus on reading text with greater fluency and using expressions when they encounter question/exclamation marks. Through reading and performing plays students will experiment with using character voices when identifying spoken words in quotation (talking) marks. We will continue to provide opportunities for students to revise and practise using their reading strategies to understand and make sense of more challenging texts.

Questions you could ask you kids while reading:

How can you tell if this is a fact or an opinion?
How are these two characters/settings/ storylines similar? What is different?
What reading strategy can you use to work out a tricky word?
What information does this picture give you?
How is the character feeling? How do you know?

Reading Weekly Focus:

Week 1: Analysing - Fact and Opinion

Week 2: Analysing - Fact and Opinion

Week 3: Analysing - Fact and Opinion

Week 4: Solving Words

Week 5: Solving Words

Week 6: Solving Words

Week 7: Summarising

Week 8: Summarising

Week 9: Summarising

Week 10: Revision

Week 11: Revision

Writing

Writing:

This term we will continue students’ exposure to different text types focusing on information reports and poetry. Students’ will further develop their knowledge of the 6+1 traits organisation and word choice through understanding how information texts and poems are structured and the language used to create such texts. We will provide opportunities for students to engage with, plan and write information reports and poems of their own.

Questions you could ask your kids while reading:

What text type is this book?
What is the purpose of the punctuation?
Can you sum up the story in 1-2 sentences?
What is the meaning of the story?

Writing Weekly Focus:

Week 1: Information Reports

Week 2: Information Reports

Week 3: Information Reports

Week 4: Information Reports

Week 5: Information Reports

Week 6: Information Reports

Week 7: Poetry

Week 8:Poetry

Week 9: Poetry

Week 10: Poetry

Week 11: Revision

Spelling

Spelling: This term we will continue to follow the Jolly Phonics Spelling and Grammar Program. We will have a strong focus on vowel digraphs (spelling sounds made from two letters) and activities like look/say/cover/write/check and dictation to further cement new spelling patterns. We will continue to build on student knowledge and use of adjectives, nouns and verbs and introduce adverbs, antonyms and plural words.

Questions you could ask you kids while reading

Can you find an adjective on this page?
What adjectives would you use to describe this noun?
What verbs can you find on this page?
What is another word for that noun/adjective/verb?
How can you describe the action using an adverb?

Jolly Phonics Weekly Focus:

Week 1: ou and final blends

Week 2: ow and alphabetical order

Week 3: oi and adverbs

Week 4: oy and adverbs

Week 5: or and plurals

Week 6: al and antonyms

Week 7: nk and alphabetical order

Week 8: er and speech marks

Week 9: ir and word webs

Week 10: Revision

Week 11: Revision

Maths

We will be providing lots of hands-on and engaging activities in the classroom this term.

Our focus in Number will be moving on from multiplication to division and fractions. We will explore money and then return to revise place value later in the term.

In Measurement and Geometry the students will explore the features and classification of two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes. With the warmer weather we aim to teach some open-ended activities outside, using water to demonstrate concepts like capacity and mass. Students will practise giving and following directions to/from different locations using their positional language.

Statistics and Probability this term will have the students explore the chance of familiar events happening and the language used to describe the outcomes.

We look forward to our students improving their problem-solving skills, with a focus on patterns, through open-ended lessons where they will enjoy the opportunity to collaborate with their classmates.

Continue to explore maths at home with your child around;

Telling the time (analogue and digital)
Skip Counting by 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10
Equal groups for sharing and multiplying
Australian notes and coins

Maths Weekly Focus:

Week 1: Division / Shape

Week 2: Division / Shape

Week 3: Division / Shape

Week 4: Division / Shape

Week 5: Fractions / Probability

Week 6: Fractions / Probability

Week 7: Australian Coins / Patterns

Week 8: Place value / Location

Week 9: Place value / Mass and Capacity

Week 10: Place value / Mass and Capacity

Week 11: Revision

Inquiry - Tip Toe Through the World

This term, students will be learning about all things sustainable. They will participate in a variety of experiments, be exposed to the terms “REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE” and how we can do this in our daily lives. Students will have the opportunity to work independently and with small groups, to present their ideas to other year levels and set goals for their future action to ensure they are leaving a light “environmental footprint”.

Questions you could ask your kids:

What are some items that we can recycle?
How could we reuse items around the house?
What can we do at home to be more sustainable?
What ways can we help reduce the amount of water we use?
What happens when we dirty the water?
Also a good opportunity to get them to start taking the rubbish out to the bins to ensure it goes in the correct bin.