Literacy
Reading – Re-tell
During this unit, students will develop the ability to retell a story in sequence, both orally and with pictures. The focus questions will be:
- What was the setting?
- Who were the main characters?
- Was there a problem and if so, what did the main characters experience?
- What happened first, next, last?
- How did the story end?
By the end of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate a successful retell.
Letter and Sound Knowledge
During this unit, the students will be learning to recognise the letter symbols, name the letters and hear and say the most common sounds made by the following letters in both upper and lowercase:
– Yy, Rr, Ee, Qq, Zz, Jj, Uu, Kk, Xx, Ww
By the end of this unit, the students will be confident in recognising the symbol and using the sounds for each of these letters in their reading and writing experiences.
Writing
During this unit the students will be learning about the conventions of writing. They will be working on the following skills:
- Using uppercase letters for names and the start of sentences and lowercase for all other representations.
- Using finger spaces between the words they are writing.
- Using punctuation at the end of sentences.
- Representing each sound they can hear with a written symbol.
- Segmenting the words that they want to write and spelling them phonetically.
- Being able to read their own writing back to another person.
By the end of this unit the students will be able to produce a small piece of writing using the correct conventions so that the reader can read and understand what they have written.
Numeracy
Graphs
During this unit the students will be learning about graphs. They will be working on the following skills:
- Answering yes/no questions to collect information.
- Organising answers to yes/no questions to create a simple data display.
- Answering simple questions about the information collected and displayed on a graph.
By the end of this unit, the students will be skilled at understanding how a graph is used and able to answer simple questions about the information displayed.
Social-emotional Learning
During Term 3, students will continue to build on their understanding of how to develop friendships, understand other people’s emotions, celebrate their individuality and manage their own emotions as they develop independence and resilience.
Inquiry
Wild Animals
During this unit, the students will be learning about how animals have a variety of external features and live in different places where their basic needs including food, water and shelter are met. This unit involves:
- identifying common features of animals and describing particular body parts for specific purposes such as trunks and legs.
- connecting animal features with their classification.
- investigating the different habitats in which animals live such as on land or in water
By the end of this unit, the students will design and produce an animal enclosure for their chosen animal and a writing piece based on the information found.