Week Five

We have had a busy year learning the sounds of all letters (uppercase and lowercase). We have learnt 20 golden words and are learning CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words. The children have been listening carefully and identifying the initial, middle and end sound. We have also been busy counting, subitising and using new mathematical language. We are so proud of what they are achieving in literacy and numeracy!

Literacy

We will be reviewing our sounds, golden words and CVC words.

Speaking and listening continue to be a focus. We are enjoying listening to the celebrations that you have in your homes.

Numeracy

We are reviewing numbers 1 to 19. We will continue to identify missing numbers and count on from different starting points.

During week 5, we will be making patterns with fruit. When we have created our pattern we will be having a picnic under the trees (weather permitting). We would appreciate it if you could please share one piece of fruit with our class (the brighter the better!). These we will be washed and cut in the morning ready for our numeracy activities.

Dancing

Dancing resumes Monday afternoon and will continue until the end of the term.

Blue Group Assembly

Our assembly item will be held on Thursday morning during week 7. We have begun rehearsals with Room 4. Each child will have a speaking part. A note will go home outlining what your child will be saying, to practise at home. As it is a Christmas Theme, we ask that on the day your child wears Christmas colours and a Santa Hat (if you have one).

Week Four

Thank you to parents for supporting your child with their Celebrations retell task at school last week. The students did a great job drawing a picture of their family celebration, and writing about what was happening in the picture.  It is so wonderful to see students listening carefully to words and writing down the sounds they hear. It was lovely to see such a variety of family events, including fireworks shows, Easter, Diwali, birthday’s, Christmas and Chinese New Year. If any parents would like to come in and talk any special family traditions with the class this term, you would be most welcome.

Literacy

We have reached the end of the alphabet! This week we are learning about the letter Q. Q as in quilt, queen and quick. We will be learning that Q and U stick together like glue, meaning the letter q is always followed by a letter u, and together they make the qu sound.

Your continued support with revising letter sounds and sight words at home will support your child to learn and apply this knowledge as we apply this knowledge to reading and writing.

Numeracy

Our number of the week is number 19.

On Wednesdays students have been learning about the concept of heavy and light. This includes hefting with our bodies to feel the difference in weight of objects. An important skill is for students to use language to describe their observations, e.g. the rockmelon is heavier than the banana.

Health

This term our focus is on Protective Behaviours. So far this term we have explored the concept of public (e.g. restaurant, shops) and private places (e.g. our bedroom, toilet at school) and are beginning to talk about how our body feels when we feel scared or unsafe. 

Have a wonderful week.

Fun with Science

We used our wiggly fingers to help the magic happen!