Prep

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN PREP

Term 2 Weeks 7, 8 and 9

LITERACY:

Week 7: Jj -Jack Jellyfish and Uu – Uncle Upton

Week 8: Kk -Kylie Koala and Xx – Max Fox

Week 9: Ww – Wilbur Whale

We will continue to revise the sounds and Heart Words previously taught. Students will continue to practice segmenting and blending words. They continue to learn to identify the difference between letters, words and sentences. Students will begin identifying capital letters and full stops. We will continue recalling events from a familiar story and begin introducing different types of punctuation. In Writing, we will continue writing recounts of our weekends and special events at school. We will be focusing on writing about one idea and drawing detailed illustrations.

MATH:

Week 7: Addition – Count All/Counting On and Time - sequencing events

Week 8: Numbers to 20 – Place Value and number formation and Time - sequencing events

Week 9: Numbers to 20 – Place Value and number formation and Time - sequencing events

INQUIRY: Past, Present and Future

Week 7 – Olden Day Dress Up Day, Olden Day games Open Afternoon (Friday 9th June)

Week 8 – How to Make food without technology – Making Butter (Could all students please bring a small container that can tightly seal liquid and not leak when shaken. Please bring the container to school by 13th of June.)

Week 9 – Comparing the Past, Present and Future using a timeline.

WELLBEING:

Wellbeing Lessons in Weeks 7, 8 and 9 will cover how to in a positive way when things go wrong. Students will be involved in a football clinic over Weeks 7 and 8.

HOMEWORK: Please read with your child each day. Continue practicing sounds and Heart Words each day. Continue to sound out and blend words. Reading Eggs can be completed as an extra activity if your child wishes. Their login code is already inside their Homework book.

REMINDERS:

Olden Day Dress Up Day Friday June 9th – Dress like a child or adult from the olden days. (See above pictures for ideas)
Open Afternoon Friday June 9th at 2.30pm – Come and play some olden day games with your child.
Making Butter - Could all students please bring a small container that can tightly seal liquid and not seal when shaken. Please bring the container to school by 13th of June.
Kings Birthday Public Holiday – June 12th
Last Day of Term June 23rd Pink Day – Dress in pink and bring a gold coin donation please– 2.30pm finish.

Thank you for your support 😊

Kristy Lund, Ebony Gruar, Anne Goodman and Felicity Elliott

Year 1

Year 2

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN YEAR 2

Term 2 Weeks 6 & 7

LITERACY:

Reading - When reading texts we are focusing on making connections from what we already know as well as how to summarize texts.

Writing - We are continuing to focus on information reports this term. We are looking at what needs to be included in information reports as well as focusing on sequencing events and important points in a logical order.

MATH: Our focus remains on money, making collections of Australian notes and coins that are equivalent. We are also looking at time and focusing on half past, quarter past and quarter to.

INQUIRY: We are looking at building a tower and creating a plan, diagram and list of materials needed. We are working in groups and designing and testing our towers.

WELLBEING: This term's focus is on help seeking. This fortnight the students look at identifying the people in their lives whom they can seek help from.

HOMEWORK: Homework expectations are that students are completing home reading (at least every school night) and filling out their reading diary. Remember each student is aiming to get 200 nights of reading across the year to get a ticket to the Pizza Party!

Our Mascots

Our Mascots are heading to your homes again during term 2. Bessy is going home with the children in 2MD and Bob is going home with the children in 2W. They will come home on a Wednesday and are expected to be returned on the following Monday. We have loved seeing what the mascots have been up to with the children so far and have seen some amazing handwriting from the children that they have then read and shared with their classes.

REMINDERS:

Craftpower incursion Monday 5th June.
Year 2 sport Tuesday afternoons.

CONTACT: Please feel free to get in contact with your child’s classroom teacher/s via their emails below.

Kate McEvoy – Monday – Wednesday - kate.mcevoy@education.vic.gov.au,

Mel Dowdle – Thursday & Friday - melissa.dowdle@education.vic.gov.au,

Bec Whittingham rebecca.whittingham@education.vic.gov.au

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5/6

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN YEAR 5/6

Term 2 Week 6 and 7

READING: We are learning to use the text to find implied information. This is information that is not directly stated in the text but we can use the clues in the text to guess what is happening. This will help improve our comprehension skills and make us better readers. We are also learning to identify text features in an information text.

WRITING: We are learning to edit and publish our information text. We have been researching our chosen topic for our information text and slowly drafting our text. We are beginning to edit and publish our information report so it can be displayed in the classroom.

MATHS: We are learning to complete vertical subtraction problems. We are also learning to use formal units of measurement for capacity, volume and mass. These will be our last mathematics topics for the term.

INQUIRY: We are learning to research information on our designated country. Students have been given a country in either North America, Asia or Europe and have begun to research information about their designated country for the upcoming SPS Travel Expo. This week we are focusing on our country's cultural food and comparing our country to Australia.

HOMEWORK: Students are expected to complete 5 nights of a minimum 20 minutes of reading each week as well as 3 Mathletics tasks. We ask for these to be completed by Monday of each week. Students will receive reward time if both tasks are completed.

OUR YEAR AT A GLANCE:Term 2: Geography – The World Around Us SPS Travel Expo (Details and date TBC)

Term 3: Design and Technology – Food design, product and safe handling Tour of Patties or Inghams (Details and date TBC) Masterchef challenge or Somerville Primary cookbook design

Term 4: Economics and Business – Small businesses Senior School Market (Date TBC)

REMINDERS:

Winter Lightning Premiership- Friday the 2nd of June
Body Education Parent information night via Zoom- Tuesday the 13th of June at 6:30pm
Body Education Incursion- Wednesday the 14th of June and Friday the 16th of June

FoSP

Friends of Somerville PS