Year 1/2 Report

Welcome back everyone to Term 3! The Grade 1/2 teachers have been busy preparing engaging activities for you all.  We have an exciting and jam-packed Term organised for our students which include... 

Science Week activities 

Grade 2 Sleep Over 

Grade 1 Stay Late 

Book Week activities and parade

Numeracy  

During Term 3 in Numeracy, students will continue investigations in place value and counting patterns through games and activities. This will support the consolidation of their addition and subtraction skills and number facts. The emphasis during numeracy sessions will be to develop sound understandings using concrete materials and being able to explain strategies used and explore alternative methods to problem solve. With guidance by their teachers, students will continue to use the RekenReks to develop their knowledge of the different ways we can make numbers from one to twenty. 

We will also explore the topics of 2 Dimensional and 3 Dimensional Shapes and Statistics and Probability, as well as measurement through practical activities.  

Literacy  

During Term 3 in Literacy, students will be exposed to Indigenous Australian dreamtime stories, learning about their origins and purpose. Students will be analysing the structure of poems and identify the patterns within poems. Students will focus on the comprehension strategies of persuading and point of view and inferring.

Students will continue to create written recounts of their experiences. Students will also learn how to write a dreamtime story by listening to and retelling a dreamtime story. They will learn how to take up a point of view on a relatable topic, write about their point of view and give reasons for their point of view, using emotive language as a persuasive technique. Students will also learn how to use the structure and patterns within poems to write their own original poems. Using the knowledge taught during the term, students will work through the 5 stages of writing, Planning, Drafting, Revising, Editing and Publishing to produce their own writing pieces. Students will celebrate their writing successes by sharing their published pieces with an audience. 

Inquiry  

During Term Three in Inquiry, students will be exploring a unit titled ‘Celebrating Differences’. Students will explore the different communities celebrate their culture, identifying how some are the same and some are the different. Students will learn about Indigenous Australian culture and NAIDOC week. They will participate in a range of experiences including using clapping sticks and Aboriginal symbols to learn an Indigenous Australian song and create visual stories. Students will also participate in a rotation of cultural activities, such as learning different cultural dances and songs and making Honey Joys and Diwali Lantern Crafts.

REMINDERS   

School starts at 8:50 and finishes at 3:10 - please make sure you are on time.   

Please provide, drink bottle, fruit snack, lunch and recess snack each day. 

Term 3 means colder weather so please send a NAMED jacket and/or coat.   

Use the SENTRAL app to notify the school of any absences.

Students and adult helpers are to practice reading their books and oxford words nightly.

Red folders are to be returned to school each day for notes, home readers, oxford words and diaries.

The Grade 1/2 Team  

 Emily Routley, Mark Turner, Kirsty Peffers, Belinda Perera and Carla Asta.