This week students will be learning and practising a new reading comprehension strategy- finding the main idea of a passage. Students will also continue to practise reading fluently when they read aloud various texts.
This week students will continue to explore the purpose, features and language used in persuasive texts. Students will practise writing about their own opinion and use evidence to support their ideas.
This week students will continue to practise multiplication with one-digit numbers, using repeated addition. We will focus on skip-counting (or pattern counting) by tens.
In Spelling this week, we will be focusing on the following:
Spelling choices, rules and skills:
-Spelling words with 'c' saying /s/ (celebrate, circus, cylinder)
-Spelling words with 'g' saying /j/ (gentle, giraffe, gymnastics)
Tricky words : remember, other, another
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.
We will also be focusing on the words remember, other, another
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, we will be focusing on verb choices.
** Differentiated learning will be present in each class to cater for all students individual learning requirements.
In wellbeing this week, we will continue our Respectful Relationship lessons. Our goals for this week are to:
• think of possible actions to solve problems.
• list the possible good and bad outcomes of different choices.
We will be looking at different scenarios and ask the following questions:
• Who has a problem?
• What is the problem?
• How might the problem be making them feel?
• What might happen if they don’t find a way to deal with this problem?