Transcript Year One/Two Multi-age Classroom Parent Information Night

Year Two
Parent Information Night
Term One 2008
Early Childhood Teacher
Miss Rebecca Sullivan
• Experience and expertise
in teaching Early
Childhood students
• Enjoy drama and science
experiences
• See the advantages of
teaching differentiated
learning groups
• Have high expectations of
all students
Classroom Organisation
• Routines
• Classroom Expectations
• Behaviour Management
(blue stickers, lucky dip, house
points, signatures)
• Boys are seen as
independent learners
• Lunchtimes – eating
(nuts); social play;
sunscreen.
• Tool kits
• Books/Stationery
• Medical forms
Literacy
• Literacy Block –
whole class activities
• Literacy Groups
• Syllabus –
» Writing and
Shaping
» Reading and
Viewing
» Speaking and
Listening
• “Have a go”
Numeracy
• Maths Block
• Maths Groups
• Syllabus » Number
» Measurement
» Patterns and
Algebra
» Chance and Data
» Space
• Developing problem
solving skills
Integrated Studies
• Science
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Science and Society
Earth and Beyond
Energy and Change
Life and Living
Natural and Processed
Materials
• S.O.S.E.
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Time, Continuity and Change
Place and Space
Culture and identity
Systems, resources and
power
Drama and Design and Technology
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Expressing ourselves
Music and movement
Acting out roles
Acting our conflict/resolution
scenarios
• Building confidence in public
speaking
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Technology
• Technology practice – organising,
designing and using a procedure.
• Information – presenting
information.
• Materials – selecting appropriate
materials to met design needs.
• Systems – using programs
effectively.
You Can Do It
• Achieving SUCCESS
and giving our
PERSONAL BEST
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Confidence
Getting Along
Persistence
Organisation
Resilience
Specialist Lessons
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Music – Mr Hayden Dinse
Art – Ms Julianne De Lange
PE – Mr Bill Barnes
Religion – Mr Shane McCarthy
Library – Mrs Theresa Wyatt
Home Readers
• Two home readers will be sent home on
MONDAY and returned FRIDAY.
• Home readers do not need to be brought
to school each day unless your son would
like to change books.
• Reading levels will be monitored and
changed according to the boys progress.
Tips for great reading
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Code-breaking strategies
Text structure and features
Plot sequence
Character motivation
Literal and inferential meanings
How illustrations contribute to the meaning
Author’s purpose of the story
Language used
Homework
• Each Monday your son will receive a homework task sheet in their
homework folder.
• The task sheet will list the jobs to do:
– Reading home readers (5 minutes)
– Learn sight words using look, say, cover, write, check or your own
method (5 minutes every 2nd day)
– Literacy task (5 minutes)
– Math task (5 minutes)
• Don’t do all the homework in one night. It is better to do a bit each
day.
• Every child is different in the way they handle homework tasks at
home, please be patient. I want to know what they can do and how
they manage independently.
• Homework needs to be returned on Friday.
Folios and Interviews
• Student Folio
• Academic Folio
• Parent – Teacher Interviews (Term 1 and 3)
• Semester Reports (Term 2 and Term 4)
Parent Helpers
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Literacy groups
Maths groups
Support – a - reader
Swimming
Special events
At home help
Unit Themes
Term One: Black and White
Term Two: Forensics (police officer visit)
Term Three: Islands of Moreton Bay (Excursion)
Term Four: Numbers in our world
Contact
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Diary
Direct Classroom Phone Number: 3906 9407
Administration Phone Number: 3906 9444
School Newsletters sent home Tuesday