Upcoming
Events:
21
August - Book Week Dress Up Day
26-29
August - Student Led Conferences
Friday
30 August - Fathers’ Day Breakfast
9-20
September - Aquasafe Swimming Lessons
13-14
September - Art Show
Readers’
Workshop:
Students
will continue to engage in daily reading activities where they will learn and
utilise decoding and comprehension strategies. Some strategies that we will be
focusing on in greater detail include analysing pictures to gain more meaning
from texts, making connections and chunking.
Work
on Writing:
This
term we will continue to develop our literacy practices by exploring and
creating texts with a range of features. During regular writing opportunities
students will continue to use the writing process to ‘bump up’ their writing,
with an emphasis on self correcting and editing to improve writing pieces. This
term students will have opportunities to create non fiction texts and
poetry.
Word
Work:
Spelling is integrated into all English lessons and is a particular focus
during Word Work sessions.
Talk
Time:
Students
will have fortnightly opportunities to deliver their Talk Time presentations to
the class. Further information regarding the topics and structure of Talk Time
this term will be sent home during week 1. Talk Time will begin Monday of week
2.
Mathematics
will continue to be structured into Mighty Maths and Maths Extra lessons to
cover numeracy content three times a week and other Mathematics topics twice a
week.
Mighty
Maths
-
Students will engage in explicit teaching, games and mental computation
activities regarding fractions, skip counting, addition and subtraction and
place value.
Maths
Extra -
This term we will cover the concepts of
- Time - reading calendars and identifying months of the relevant seasons and reading time on analogue and digital clocks to the quarter hour.
- Money - learning to recognise the value of coins and identify the sum of a collection coins.
- 3D objects - Students will explore the features of three dimensional objects. They will have opportunities to identify pyramids and prisms and describe the faces, corners and edges of familiar 3D objects.
Fundamental
Motor Skills (FMS) - We will focus on the following skills throughout
the semester:
- Running
- Catching
- Jumping
These
skills are specifically taught and practised through a variety of games and
activities.
SEL - Our Social and
Emotional Lessons this term will focus on Social Awareness. Students will discuss
the importance of friends, skills that assist in being a good friend, asking to
play, meeting new people and strategies to deal with friendship problems.
History
Inquiry -
Starting this week we will begin our new Inquiry 'Transportation'. Through this
inquiry students will develop their knowledge of how transport has changed over
time and the impact this has on our lives. Students will practise sequencing
different forms of transport into time order of when it was first used.
Students will then be encouraged to identify how and why changes may have
occurred.
Science
Inquiry
- In the second
half of the term students will be completing a science unit called 'Water
Works’. During this inquiry students will be provided with opportunities to
develop an understanding of, and appreciation for, a precious natural resource.
Through investigations, students will explore how water is used, where water
comes from and how to use it responsibly.
Wonderful Wednesdays - a range of other skills and content is addressed during our Wednesday rotations with specialist teachers. Our rotations include:
- FMS
- Library (remember Library bags for borrowing)
- Japanese
- Performing Arts
