Term 2 Update

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.