Literacy
Reading
During this unit, students are continuing to develop their reading skills, in particular, focusing on their reading fluency and comprehension. The focus skills are:
- to understand how to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships, and blending and segmenting to read and use more complex words with less common consonant and vowel clusters
- to use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning
- to read aloud with fluency and expression, using the punctuation to guide them
- to identify the main idea and discuss the traits of the main character/s.
By the end of this unit, students will be able to read aloud with fluency, and demonstrate their comprehension of that text by answering literal and inferential questions about it.
Writing
Drafting a Descriptive Writing Piece
During this unit, students will be learning how to draft a writing piece using descriptive language. This includes lessons on:
- describing a character and setting
- describing emotions
- using paragraphs
- organising the events in writing
- having a theme or message in writing
- different ways to begin and end a writing piece.
By the end of this unit, students will have drafted a writing piece using descriptive language.
Numeracy
Place Value
During this unit, students will be consolidating their understanding of how our number system works. This will include lessons on:
- the place and value of numbers
- regrouping and partitioning numbers
- using number lines
- the purpose of zero
- odd and even numbers
- problem solving
- naming large numbers
By the end of this unit, students will show their understanding of place value through an open ended, problem solving task and online assessment
Data
During this unit, students will be learning about data. This will include lessons on:
- language of data
- analysing graphs, tables and data
- creating tables and graphs
- data in everyday situations
At the end of this unit, students will be able to show their understanding of data by undertaking surveys to gather, interpret and display data in relations to a question of interest.
Inquiry
Emotional Regulation
During this unit, students will be learning about emotional regulation. This will include lessons on:
– the four zones of regulation and the feelings associated with them
– what each emotion looks like and feels like and what they feel like in our bodies
– strategies to manage emotional responses.
By the end of this unit, students will be able complete an emotional regulation plan to assist them controlling their emotions.