Week 2

Dear Parents,

It has been a busy week! On Monday we celebrated Valentines Day and we were visited by Mr. Morris Gleitzman. And on Thursday we celebrated Lantern Festival.

This week we covered the following work:

English

· Writing a friendly letter

· Looking at an envelope

· Telling a story about yourself

Reading

· Long u and Long o

· High Frequency Words – morning, found, shout, by, out, show, climb, go, home, woke, nose, whole, huge, use, tune, went, lift

Math

· Lesson 9.5 – Hands On: Activity Probability

· Lesson 9.6 – Problem Solving: Using a Picture

· Chapter Review/Test

Social Science

· Asking Why

· Count with Pictures

· Night Workers

Important Dates for this week

· Wednesday, 23 February – Sports Day practice; please ensure that your child wears closed shoes that they can run in as we will be going to the track. Please ensure that your child has a water bottle.

· Friday, 25 February – Spelling List 6 Test

· Friday, 25 February – Social Science Test

· Monday, 28 February – Peace Memorial Day, no school

· Tuesday, 1 March – Research Project due

Work for next week:

Spelling words – Test, 25 February

Tree, free, see, me, be, keep, deep, we, she, steep, greet, become

Dictation:

We walked up a steep hill to the cottage using crutches.

Words for sentences:

Concert, core, cottage, crane, crow, crutches, diet, drag

Music:

A reminder that Ms Faye has requested that each child brings in a shoe box for tomorrow’s music lesson

Regards,

Robyn Wood