Year 1 Parent Information term 2
Term Two Newsletter - Year 1
Welcome We are very excited to welcome you back to school this term and we hope that you had a wonderful break. This newsletter will provide you with an overview of the subjects for Term Two, along with important dates for your diary. | Reminders
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English READING Across this term we will be continuing with the structured literacy approach in our classrooms. As previously mentioned, there are five essential and interdependent components of effective, evidence-based reading instruction that we follow at St Joseph’s in Prep, Year One and Two. Each morning between 9-9:30am we begin the day with explicit phonics and spelling instruction through MSL. Some students attend Spelling Mastery in other classrooms at this time. These 5 components are taught consistently through the weekly lessons.
Additionally, the students work with the teacher in guided reading groups at their level to develop their decoding, fluency, and comprehension skills. WRITING Writing is taught explicitly and sequentially in the lessons. It begins at the basic sentence level and builds to construction of recounts and narratives. Students are also taught the accompanying grammar and punctuation when writing sentences. We focus on learning how to construct a variety of genres such as narrative, procedural and information reports. HOME READERS Your child will bring home a text to read aloud to you every night. Please enter the title and sign the diary each night and place it back into the blue book bag. The majority of the books are decodable texts and you can encourage your child to sound out each phoneme (single sounds) as they encounter more difficult words. If there is time, ask your child a couple of key questions about the text as this helps them to develop their comprehension (understanding) of the text that they are reading.
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Mathematics Throughout Term Two we will cover the following topics:
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Topic Australia and Beyond - Exploring our Land Learning ideas: Australia and its neighbours Geography “Places and Our Connection to Them” Key Questions: What are places like? How and why are people connected to their place and other places? What makes a place special? How can we care for places? Curriculum Links: Geography In this unit students will learn about how we define place and identify. They will learn how to describe features of places and changes in these, at a local scale. They will also learn how people are connected to different places and explain the value of places to people. Additionally, they will be able to describe different ways that places can be cared for. | Religion Knowledge and Understanding - explain the concepts of beauty and goodness in relation to God as Creator Reasoning and Responding - interpret the world through a lens of relationship with the sacred Personal and Communal Engagement - reflect on relationships with God, self, others and creation |
Term Two Dates | |
| Date | Event |
| Tuesday 3rd May | P-2 Melbourne Museum Excursion |
| Wednesday 4th May | School Photos |
| Thursday 9th & Friday 10th June | Staff Conference (No school) |
| Monday 13th June | Queen’s Birthday |
| Tuesday 21st June | P-2 CERES Excursion |
| Friday 24th June | Term Two Ends 3.30pm - Reports available online Friendship Fair Day |
Teacher Contact Details 1W: Celia Williamson-celia.williamson@sjmalvern.catholic.edu.au 1D: Donnella DeVisse-donnella.devisser@sjmalvern.catholic.edu.au St Joseph’s School Office: 9597 6300 | |