This week in Reading, we are continuing to explore comprehension strategies. Students will practise making connections between two different texts (text to text connections).
Students are continuing to build their reading fluency by reading and talking about a range of different texts. We are working towards becoming confident readers and reflective thinkers who can express our ideas clearly and convincingly.
In our Storybook lessons, we will continue to explore the text 'The Stone Lion' by Margaret Wild, focusing on vocabulary, narrative elements and answering questions. Our feature vocabulary words for this text are: generous, stumble, pace.
This week students will continue to practise Storytelling through the text, 'Tiddalick: The Frog who caused a Flood' (A Dreamtime Story). Students will be using this text to create their own version of the text, by changing parts of the text (e.g. the setting or the character) to support their retell.
Students will also have an opportunity to work on free choice writing.
This week students will continue to practise estimating and placing numbers on open number lines and round numbers to the nearest 10/100/1000. We will also continue our unit on Measurment, focusing on measuring the lengths of objects and shapes using informal units
In Spelling this week, we will focus on:
-Split digraph (bossy 'e') words + ing
-reading and spelling words with the r- controlled vowel - 'ar' (star)
We will be focusing on the tricky words: bought, thought, work, alright
At home, you can support your child by doing the following activities:
Child writes the word, saying each sound as he/she writes.
Draw child’s attention to the target phonic pattern.
Help child choose the correct spelling pattern if there are options.
At home, you can support your child by doing the following activities:
Child writes the word several times, saying each letter name as he/she writes.
Child writes a sentence using the target word.
In Grammar this week, students will be focusing on adjectives (describing words).
** Differentiated learning will be present in each class to cater for all students individual learning requirements.
In Wellbeing this week, we will begin our Respectful Relationships lessons.
The Resilience, rights and respectful relationships (RRRR) teaching and learning resource has been designed to support primary teachers to provide social and emotional learning and respectful relationships education.
This week, the students will focus on:
-naming some emotions that they can experience at school.
-learning about emotion 'triggers'
e.g.
‘I felt excited when it was my birthday’,
‘I felt angry when my friend took my ball’
‘I felt sad when no one played with me in the playground.’