CONNECT WITH YEAR 1/2
Term 4 2015
Welcome back to Term 4 from your (hopefully) relaxing holidays. It is great seeing everyone back, excited and ready to go for another action-packed term. Welcome back to Noela Unwin who has returned from her wonderful overseas trip. I'm sure everyone is excited to have Noela back and to hear all about her adventures. Special thanks to Rachael Barratt for stepping in for 1/2U and doing a fantastic job.
Learning and Teaching
Welcome back to Term 4 from your (hopefully) relaxing holidays. It is great seeing everyone back, excited and ready to go for another action-packed term. Welcome back to Noela Unwin who has returned from her wonderful overseas trip. I'm sure everyone is excited to have Noela back and to hear all about her adventures. Special thanks to Rachael Barratt for stepping in for 1/2U and doing a fantastic job.
Learning and Teaching
In year 1/2 We Are Learning To (WALT)....
READING
Visualising - WALT create pictures in our head to enhance our understanding of the story.
Visualising - WALT create pictures in our head to enhance our understanding of the story.
SPELLING
Grade 1 - wh and oo
Grade 2 - ow and ur
WRITING
Narrative - WALT write a creative narrative with interesting characters, settings and events.
UNIT OF STUDY
This Term our Unit of Study aims to develop childrens' critical thinking skills using 'Wonderland' as an exploratory base. You may have noticed the teachers dressed up as characters from Alice in Wonderland and doorways with some decorations to spark creativity.
We have discussed what Wonderland means to each person and have begun designs to decorate our rooms to create our own Wonderlands.
Art Show - Wednesday 14th October 6-8pm
Grade 1 - wh and oo
Grade 2 - ow and ur
WRITING
Narrative - WALT write a creative narrative with interesting characters, settings and events.
MATHS
Counting and Place Value
1- Develop confidence with
number sequences to and from 100 by ones from any starting point. Skip count by
twos, fives and tens starting from 0. Recognise, model, read, write and order
numbers to at least 100, locate these numbers on a number line
2- Investigate number sequences,
initially those increasing and decreasing by two, three, five and ten from
any starting point, then moving to other sequences. Recognise, model, read,
write and order numbers to at least 1000
UNIT OF STUDYThis Term our Unit of Study aims to develop childrens' critical thinking skills using 'Wonderland' as an exploratory base. You may have noticed the teachers dressed up as characters from Alice in Wonderland and doorways with some decorations to spark creativity.
We have discussed what Wonderland means to each person and have begun designs to decorate our rooms to create our own Wonderlands.
REMINDERS
Art Show - Wednesday 14th October 6-8pm
If you require a meeting with your child's teacher please don't hesitate to make an appointment with us.
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