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STATEMENT OF INTENT- TERM 2 WEEK 8

READING: (Fluency and Comprehension)

This week in Reading, we are continuing to explore comprehension strategies. Students will begin to practise the strategy questioning. They will practise asking questions about the text before, during and after reading.

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 The Story of Rosy Dock by Jeannie Baker. We will focus on vocabulary, narrative elements and answering questions.

WRITING: (Poetry)

This week students will continue to explore poetry. So far we have explored cinquain poems, haiku poems and this week we will begin exploring colour poems.

Students will also have an opportunity for free choice writing.

MATHS: (Place Value-Renaming and Measurement)

In Maths this week, we are revisiting place value.

Students will record, partition, rename and count 3-digit numbers to at least 1000 using place value parts, using physical materials. Students will also explore standard and non-standard groupings using base 10 blocks.

We will also continue our unit on Measurement, focusing on learning to identify suitable informal units of measurement for mass.

SPELLING and GRAMMAR

In Spelling this week, we will focus on:

-learning about the diagraph /ph/ as in phone

-reviewing spelling words with the 'oy' and 'oi' spelling choices.

We will be focusing on the tricky words: tomorrow, school cousin

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 begin to learn about adverbs.

** 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 our wellbeing session, students will:

-learn about calming strategies and cheering strategies.

• they will explore the difference between calming and cheering coping strategies.

• they will identify times when they need to use calming or cheering coping strategies.

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