This week students will practise using a variety of comprehension strategies to make sense of various texts. We will also be practising answering NAPLAN questions, based on the texts we read. Students will continue to practise their reading fluency.
This week students will focus on writing exclamation, command and statement sentences. They will also have time for free choice writing.
This week students will be exploring different ways to make 100. They will also be sorting polygons based on their features.
In Spelling this week, we will be reflecting on the year and revisit previous spelling choices.
Tricky words: women, woman (revisiting both these words)
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 revisit verbs, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions.
** Differentiated learning will be present in each class to cater for all students individual learning requirements.
In Wellbeing this week, we will be focusing on more Respectful Relationship lessons.
Our goal will be:
We will identify types of violence and the feelings that might be had around violence.
In this lesson:
• Students will name different types of violence, including hurting people’s feelings, hurting people’s bodies or damaging their possessions on purpose.
• Students will name some emotions people can have when they see violence or when it happens to them.
• Students will name some bodily sensations people can feel when they see violence or when it happens to them.
• Students will name some kinds of violence that are also gender-unfair.
We will be going through a few examples, such as the one below:
Amira was playing on the swing. Lucas yelled to her to get off because he wanted a turn. He grabbed the swing and stood over Amira yelling, ‘Girls have to get off or I will push them off!’