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STATEMENT OF INTENT- TERM 2 WEEK 5

READING: (Fluency and Comprehension)

This week in Reading, we are continuing to explore comprehension strategies. Students will continue to 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 continue to explore the text called Chooks in Dinner Suits by Diane Jackson Hil. We will focus on vocabulary, narrative elements and answering questions. Our feature vocabulary words for this text are: trample, rummage, loyal

WRITING: (Poetry)

This week students will be beginning their Poetry unit. We will start by exploring and creating Cinquain Poems.

MATHS: (Addition/Subtraction and Measurement)

In Maths this week, we are learning to write and apply two-digit addition and subtraction fact families, and practise using mental calculation strategies for addition and subtraction (partitioning into tens and ones).

We will also continue our unit on Measurment, focusing on learning to estimate the length of objects and measure with informal units to check.

SPELLING and GRAMMAR

In Spelling this week, we will focus on:

-learning to read and spell words with the suffix /ful/.

- learning to read and spell words with the suffix /ful/.

- practising spelling words with the sound /ir/ and explore the different spelling choices (ir, ur, er)

We will be focusing on the tricky words: helpful, lose

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 revising concepts of a verb.

** 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 what it means to ask for consent.

• learn what it means to give or refuse consent.

This week in both our second wellbeing session, students will:

• practise strategies they can use when they need to seek, give or refuse consent.

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