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STATEMENT OF INTENT- TERM 2 WEEK 4

READING: (Fluency and Comprehension)

This week in Reading, we are continuing to explore comprehension strategies. Students will practise the strategy visualising. When reading aloud the text, students will think about what they might see, hear, taste, smell or feel, to help them make a picture in their mind.

Students will continue to build their reading fluency by reading and talking about a range of different texts. They are working towards becoming confident readers and reflective thinkers who can express their ideas clearly and convincingly.

In our Storybook lessons, we will explore the text 'Collecting Colour' by Kylie Dunstan, focusing on vocabulary, narrative elements and answering questions. Our feature vocabulary words for this text are: scan, pesky and occasionally

WRITING: (Narrative text- Storytelling)

This week students will create a new story that they will use to practise their storytelling. Students will create a Narrative, based on a choice of a range of picture prompts provided. First, they will go through the writing cycle, then once it is published they will practise sharing their own story aloud to others.

MATHS: (Addition/Subtraction and Measurement)

This week students will revisit addition and subtraction, and practise using various strategies. They will learn to calculate doubles facts, use near doubles facts to solve addition equation and learn to write and apply two-digit addition and subtraction fact families.

We will also continue our unit on Measurment, focusing on comparing and ordering the length of objects using informal units.

SPELLING and GRAMMAR

In Spelling this week, we will focus on:

-learning the double rule for adding ing

-reading words with suffix /ing/

-review nouns, base words, prefixes and suffixes.

We will be focusing on the tricky words: already, they, their, across

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 reviewing nouns, pronouns, adjectives, noun groups.

** Differentiated learning will be present in each class to cater for all students individual learning requirements.

Wellbeing

In Wellbeing this week, we will continue 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 in both our first wellbeing session, students will:

learn about respect from Aboriginal perspectives.
describe ways people can show respect for themselves, for people and for Country.

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