In Literacy: During Reading, our Year 1’s and 2’s have been learning to ask questions that relate to the meaning of the text using the 5W’s; who, what, when, where, why and how.

We have been working hard on our spelling, building word family lists, using suffixes, learning words from our writing and learning the Oxford First 100 words and 200 words.

We have been creating persuasive pieces during Writing, learning to use positive and negative emotive language to strengthen our arguments and making our position clear. We are developing an understanding of how to use words to persuade a reader to side with our position.

Coming Up:Education Week Open Day– Tuesday 16th of May, 20172:00pm-3:00pm, 7:00pm-8:00pmCurriculum Day - Pupil Free Day – Wednesday 17th of May, 2017Arts Day – Thursday 18th of May, 2017Botanic Gardens Excursion – Friday 19th of May, 2017

Cooking:Parent Helpers Wanted!! If you are available to help out with any cooking on the Tuesday or Friday mornings please let your child’s teacher know.

Week 5 Raspberry Yoghurt MuffinsWeek 6 Veggie Sticks and Dip

In Maths:For the next few weeks we will be:

Asking a question, gathering data and making simple graphs; Choose simple questions and gather relevant data. Create displays of data using lists, tables and picture

graphs. Analyse and make generalisations/ observations about

data sets.

Ask your child about what they have been learning!

News fromthe 1/2’s

Notes To Return:Botanic Gardens – ASAP

Year 1/2 Cooking - ASAP

Special Event:During Education Week on Tuesday the 16th of May, we will be opening our classrooms to invite you to participate in an hour of ‘hands on maths’. Parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, brothers, sisters and family friends are all welcome to join in from 2:00pm – 3:00pm. We look forward to seeing you there.

In Integrated:In Integrated Studies this term, the Year 1/2’s are learning about Geography!

Recently in Integrated, we have started analysing and observing weather forecast predictions, looking at the changing temperature throughout the day.

We have been using weather charts to track and observe the ways in which weather patterns contrast, depending on the seasons.