NAIDOC WEEK

This term we have celebrated NAIDOC week. As a class, Room 9 completed numerous activities designed to teach students about the Aboriginal culture. On the Friday, we attended a whole school assembly where there were some special visitors. We sang a song called "Wanjoo" for the special guests. They were very impressed with us all.

Damper Making
 
 
 
 

Boomerang painting using traditional Aboriginal symbols and dots
 
 

School language detective walk and mapping skills
 
 

Term 3 Learning

This term we have already been quite busy with learning new skills and concepts in Literacy and Mathematics. Our focus for the term is as follows;

YEAR 1

LITERACY

• Bossy 'e' rule revision "Bossy 'e' bosses the vowel to say its name"
• Phonics sounds "ai", "ay", "aw", "ie", "ea - long and short", "ee" - We are learning the rule "when 2 vowels go walking the first one does the talking and says its name"
•  Blends spelling (moving into final blends)
• Homophones and homographs
• Suffixes and prefixes
• Reading strategies; predicting, questioning and connecting

NUMERACY

• Place Value: Breaking numbers into tens and ones
• Addition using place value
• Subtraction using place value
• Comparing numbers
• Graphing
• Money
• Fractions

PRE PRIMARY

LITERACY

• Blends revision
• Writing simple words with blends e.g. crab
• Blending and segmenting words  into sounds e.g. f-r-o-g    
• Adding and deleting sounds in words e.g. p-i-n-k take away the k is pin
• Spelling: sight words
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NUMERACY

• Continuing with counting on
• Partitioning to 10 
• Odd and even numbers within scope
• Ordering numbers
• Doubles facts