Curriculum News

Literacy

In Literacy this term, we will be continuing our SMART Foundation program, learning about more complex sounds in digraphs and trigraphs. We will be recommencing our differentiated reading groups in which students will be working within their group to learn about reading strategies, genres and grammar conventions. In writing, students will begin to practise writing using lined paper in preparation for Year 1. We will also be focussing on writing to entertain with the students writing a historical personal memoir.

Maths

In Numeracy, we will be starting the term by learning more about Number including place value, addition and subtraction. We will focus on statistics and data, consolidating on our learning of collecting and interpreting simple data sets. The students will begin to learn about division and how to share numbers equally. We will then learn about mass and capacity using hands-on learning materials and then end the term by learning about fractions in preparation for Year 1.

Inquiry/RE

Inquiry 

In Inquiry this term, students will be learning about family and community. They will be sharing experiences of their own family lives and listening to others’ experiences of their families. Students will be exploring where they are from, where they were born, how they are related to people in their family and how their stories are shared. 

RE

Religion will be intertwined with Inquiry this term as we will be exploring Jesus’  family.  We will be learning about scripture stories about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. We will also be reflecting on ways Jesus shows us how to live in right relationships.

As we move to the end of the year, we will be focussing on Advent and the Jesse Tree then the Christmas story and the birth of Jesus.