We are working hard by building on our learning from Term 1.
We hope you all had a lovely Mother’s Day and were able to spend
time with family members.
Thank you to our wonderful P & C for holding the Mother’s Day stall.
Hopefully all the Mothers enjoyed their special gifts.
Literacy
Our news topics are
Week 5 17th May – 21st May |
Favourite sport |
Students
can bring in an item relating to their favourite sport. How is the sport
played? Where do you play the sport? What is the best thing about the sport? |
Week 6 24th May – 28th May |
Favourite book |
Bring
in your favourite book? What is the main idea in the book/what is the story
about? Who are the characters in the book? Why do you like the book? |
Week 7 31st May – 4th June |
WA places |
Bring
in a picture of a place in WA you have visited. Where is the place? Can you
point it out on a map? What did you see there? |
In Week 6 we will be assessing their news telling to see how much the
students have improved in their oral language skills.
Phonics
We are focusing on double consonants, ll, ff, ss, zz. Children learnt
that when we read a double consonant i.e. 'ss' we just make the one sound. I.e.
hiss h-i-ss. Then we will be moving onto reading initial blends, such as sl –
slip, slop. We continue to revise all golden and red words. Our focus
sight words are blue words.
Numeracy
Our focus in numeracy is addition and subtraction
number stories up to the value of 10. An example of this is, if I had 1 blue
pencil and 3 red pencils, how many pencils do I have altogether? Children can
then represent this number story by drawing and writing the numbers.
HASS
We are continuing to look at geography and our local community, the
features of a map and why we belong to different communities, for example
school, sport groups etc.
Science
We are finishing looking at the weather and seasons. We are beginning to
look at Biological Science, which is all about living things. We are going to
be creating pets and designing habitats for a pet we have researched.