Term 1 - Week 7 & 8 🍂🍁

Good afternoon parents,

I hope you had a lovely long weekend last week and enjoyed this weekend. Can you believe we are already going into Week 7? Time clearly flies by when you are having so much fun!

Homework

On Monday we will be sending home the Year Two fluency grid with this fortnights focus sounds and tricky words. Have a look at our blog post titled 'Week 4 Information' which shows you how you can use this at home to increase your child's reading fluency. We have also included all of the spelling lists for your information on the back of the fluency grid. The pink list 💓 is the target for Year Two from our InitiaLit program. Please feel free to use these lists at home to increase your child's spelling abilities. Have a look at our Fluency grids and spelling lists below to see our focus sounds 🤓




Learning Intentions

English: 

This week we are learning the spelling sounds 'soft c' as in cent, 'soft g' as in giraffe, '_dge' as in bridge  and the tricky words for this fortnight are - walk, another, other, water, talk, great

We have now finished our unit of work on the text genre recount and will be completing a 'Hot Task'. This is where the children are given a topic, 10 minutes to complete a planner that will help them to structure their recount and then a further 30 minutes to write their recount. This is completed independently, with no adult support, to showcase what each child has learnt throughout our unit of recount. 

We will now be starting to focus on the text genre of narrative. The children will complete a 'Cold Task' which is completed the same way as the 'Hot Task' but is used to inform our teaching so we are able to cater for each individual needs. We will also be looking at different images and how we can use a range of adjectives to describe a setting and character. This will help us to add more detail into our writing and to engage the reader. 

Maths:

This week, we will be finishing up our focus on addition and subtraction and commencing looking at skip counting and number patterns. We will be learning to:

Describe patterns with numbers and identify missing elements (ACMNA035)
  • describing a pattern created by skip counting and representing the pattern on a number line'
  • investigating features of number patterns resulting from adding twos, threes, fives or 10s

Parent Teacher Meeting 
We are very lucky that on Friday 22nd March the students have a student free day. This allows us as teachers to be able to conduct interviews with each and everyone of you to discuss your child's growth over the term. Each block is for 15 minutes, however, interviews are approximately 10 - 12 minutes long. This allows me a couple of minutes to get ready for the next interview.  Please contact me via email if you would like a longer meeting to discuss any complex issues. 

Please keep an eye on the blog for more information regarding the upcoming interviews.

Project Compassion Colouring Competition 

We are running a voluntary colouring competition to raise money for Project Compassion. There is a $2 entry fee and all monies are to be placed in our class Project Compassion boxes to be collected. 

Important Dates
Sunday 17th March -Sacrament of First Eucharist 
Thursday 21st March - Harmony Day
Friday 22nd March - Parent Teacher Interviews (Student Free Day)
Sunday 24th March - Palm Sunday
Thursday 28th March - Last Day of Term 1 
Friday 29th March - Good Friday

Sunday 31st March - Easter Sunday


Thanks for your ongoing support!

Kaya,

Miss Matthews

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