- 0393541611
- pascoe.vale.ps@education.vic.gov.au
Important Dates:
Community Walk – Friday 10th May
Last Day of Term 2 – Friday 23rd June
In Reading students will be:
– involved in ‘shared book’ experiences designed to build their confidence as readers
– participating in guided reading groups with the teacher focusing on different reading skills
– involved in learning opportunities to retell stories by identifying the characters, setting, problem and solution
-continuing to use reading strategies including, looking at the picture and making the first sound with their mouth and checking what they are reading makes sense
– continuing to identify and read high frequency words in books they read
In Writing students will be:
– encouraged to have a go at recording the sounds they hear in words
– encouraged to write sentences using finger spaces, capital letters and full stops
– continuing practising and learning correct letter formation, posture and pencil grip
– learning about the difference between lower and upper case letters
– participating in fine motor tasks such as cutting and pasting
In Mathematics students will be:
– connecting number names, numerals and quantities
– able to explain what more and less means using numbers and materials
– able to identify number combinations of numbers up to 10
– making quantities up to 20
– practising to automatically name how many in the collection of dots without counting (subitising)
– using direct and indirect comparisons to measure the length of objects
– answering yes/no questions to collect information and organising them into simple displays
In Inquiry students will be:
– able to explain what a community is and what is in our local community
– discussing how we can improve our school community
– planning and collaborating how we can change our school community
In Social Emotional Learning (SEL) students will be:
-using the The Resilience Project to focus on emotional literacy, gratitude, empathy and mindfulness.
Suggestions to help at home:
– read at home each night, books from both school and the library
– practise automatically reading ‘Coloured Sight Word lists’ that will be sent home
– discuss and read numbers and words, and encourage them to count out loud whenever the opportunity arises, focusing on touching or moving away each object as it is counted
– provide opportunities for drawing and writing in play situations
Foundation Team
Jenny James, Amanda Larizza, Munuse Osman.