Grade 6 WEEKLY PLANNING Weekending

PARENT INFORMATION BULLETIN – Term 1

Grades F/1/2– Weeks 8

Commencing – Monday5thJune2017 – Friday 9thJune 2017

Numeracy

/ Foundation
Use direct and indirect comparisons to decide which is longer, heavier or holds more, and explain reasoning in everyday language
Grade 1
Measure and compare the lengths, masses and capacities of pairs of objects using uniform informal units
Grade 2
Compare and order several shapes and objects based on length, area, volume and capacity using appropriate uniform informal units
Extension
Measure, order and compare objects using familiar metric units of length, area, mass and capacity
Literacy
Reading
Writing

Spelling

/ Literature and context
Recognise that texts are created by authors who tell stories and share experiences that may be similar or different to students’ own experiences (VCELT148)
Responding to literature
Draw connections between personal experiences and the worlds of texts, and share responses with others (VCELT251)
Develop criteria for establishing personal preferences for literature (VCELT252)
Persuasive text
Foundation-
Create short texts to explore, record and report ideas and events using familiar words and beginning writing knowledge (VCELY160)
Grade 1
Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements (VCELY194)
Grade 2
Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (VCELY230)
Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (VCELY266)
Fist to firstly, second to secondly, last to lastly etc
compound words
Foundation
Understand that spoken sounds and words can be written and know how to write some high-frequency words and other familiar words including their name (VCELA157)
Grade 1
Recognise and know how to use simple grammatical morphemes in word families (VCELA191)
Grade 2
Understand how to use digraphs, long vowels, blends, silent letters and syllabification to spell simple words including compound words (VCELA226)

Inquiry

Science, Technology, Humanities & Creative thinking

/ Inquiry Rotations – Exploring Space
Japanese
Rohan Buttenshaw / Foundation – Japanese Noh Theatre
1 & 2 – House. There is/are a ______.

Visual Arts

Wendy Dene

/ Foundation – “SEURAT” & “ORANGE” Dot painting/ Dough dotted mandala/ Sensory bead play
1 & 2 – “SEURAT” Dot painting & printing/ Use of the hole punch
Music
Ash Bourke / Instruments