The day starts with the students unpacking their bags, calling of the roll and their designated jobs.

The Read, write inc. is a comprehensive program at the beginning of the day, that provides spelling, sight words, writing and reading at the level each student is learning. Students are divided into small groups and go to different locations to do their learning. They then return to the junior primary class as a whole group and continue learning in areas of genre writing, grammar, handwriting, book studies, word investigations, phonological awareness and oral language.

In Maths, the class will be continuing familiarity with number sequences both backwards and forwards and sequences resulting from skip counting. We will also be exploring addition and subtraction strategies, 2 dimensional shapes, 3 dimensional shapes and time. During the last half of the term the focus will be on measurement.

In Science, we will be investigating the physical forces of motion and energy. This will include exploration of how things move, effects of size and shape and how our senses react to light and sound. 

In History, we will be researching the past and present of ourselves, our families and community.

The class also has subjects by other teachers, such as:

Design and Technology with Mr O’Neill

Digital Technology with Mrs Green

Health and Physical Education with Ms Sharon

Polish with Mrs Schlezak

Music with Kate Retelsdorf.

Library is on Fridays and students can borrow books at this time if they have returned previous books.

Each child will have a communication book for communication between you as a parent or care giver and the teacher.  

Please make sure your child’s hat is clearly labelled so it is easily identified by your child and not mistaken by another child.

All parents or carers are welcome to discussions with me about their child if needed, as working together works best for you, the child and us as teachers.