IECL 6 Class Newsletter Term2

Dear Families,

Welcome to term 2. We hope you have had a relaxing break. It’s great to see our students are excited to start term 2 and have settled well into class routine.

This term the children will be learning about: Transportation Within the Intensive English Program, English language skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening are taught across all the areas of the curriculum.

Literacy

We will focus on the Procedure text type, a procedure gives instructions on how to make or do something.

Oral and written Recounts – telling about events that have happened Recognising and naming letters of the alphabet both upper and lower case. Spelling – Jolly Phonics and word study activities concentrating on initial sounds and

word patterns. Blending sounds and letter patterns to read and write words Daily reading and guided reading activities Build up their Sight words recognition Retelling and comprehension –understanding a text Labelling vocabulary development

Mathematics

Number:

counting forward and backwards from any starting points number patterns -skip counting by twos ,fives and tens Understanding place value( Hundreds, Tens and Ones) to count and group collections Use range of strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems

Measurement and Geometry- Shape

Sort ,describe and name 2D shapes Recognise and draw 2D shapes Sort ,describe and name 3D Recognise and describe features of 3D shapes

Location and Transformation

Describe position and movement of an object Follow directions to familiar location using everyday language such as left, right,

forward, backwards ,next to Give directions to familiar locations

Science & Health- With Ms Lakra. Health - Hygiene and Road safety Chemical Science- materials and their properties, what Chemical Science is, how it is

used in daily lives and understand that objects are made of materials that have.

Physical Education with Mrs Jane Glasson Understanding and learning through movement, Cooperative Learning, Teamwork,

Basketball and Australian Rules football.

Please note a few reminders for this term:

Homework: Your child will bring home their reading folder each night for homework. Please practise their sights words with them every night.

Reading books will be changed each Monday and Thursday. Please help them read and discuss their book with them. Ask your child

Who was in the story? Tell me what happened from the beginning? What is the book mainly about?

Our library day is on Thursday. The children will need to return and borrow their library books on this day.

It is great to see the children bringing healthy food for recess and lunch, as we encourage healthy eating in our class.

We like to celebrate birthdays in the classroom, but due to severe allergies please do not send a birthday cake or food to school. We are happy to celebrate in other ways with party hats or balloons.

For children to focus and keep them healthy and happy, it is important that they have 10 – 12 hours of sleep every night.

Kind regards,

Mariantha Rizopoulos

Reading diary & sight words book