Montessori 1/2 Term 3 2024 Curriculum Overview

Welcome & General Information

English

Persuasive Oral

Our students will form and give an opinion orally on a selected topic and will listen to the responses of others. Our year 2 students with extend their opinions with supporting reasons. Students will also display a range of speaking skills during their persuasive speech. Speaking skills to be developed will include suitable eye contact, volume, pitch, facial expression, tone and gesture to enable a clear and persuasive speech. This unit of work will lay the foundation for the skills required in Term 4 for a Persuasive Writing Text. 

Maths

Number, location (year 1 and 2), fractions and time (year 2 only)

Students will match and connect number names, numerals and quantities. For year 1 students this includes numbers to 120 and year 2 student to 1000. Students also need to be able partition either 2- or 3-digit numbers. For the study of location, students will learn to give, follow directions, locate and identify positions of features in 2D representations. For year 2 students, this includes being able to use grid references. Year 2 children will also learn to identify and represent part/whole relationships of halves, quarters and eighths in measurement contexts. This fraction knowledge will then provide a foundational basis to go onto learning how to tell the time to the hour, half hour and quarter hours on an analogue clock and use calendars to determine days between events. The use of specialised Montessori Maths materials will be used, throughout the term to help introduce and consolidate these concepts, in a hands on and enjoyable way.

Science

Cosmic Science

This term our students will continue to explore science strands that peak student interest from the Second of Montessori’s Great Stories.  Last term, our children spent many enjoyable hours engrossed in the study of Physical Geography, creating their own world continent maps and exploring land and water forms. This term, the study of Botany will include an in-depth focus on plants, their parts and functions. Students will use botanical sketchbooks to help record this new and fascinating learning.  This will be link closely into our continued study of Zoology from semester one.

Science

Next term students will continue this study of Zoology as they participate in a Science Unit re Living Animal Habitats and Lifecycles. This unit will culminate with an excursion to the Cattana Wetlands to participate in the Great Aussie Bird Count.

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Humanities & Social Sciences (HASS)

Australia Past and Present

Students will explain how technology has shaped their daily lives. The year 1’s will reflect on how they’ve changed personally over time and describe important historical dates in their own lives.  The year 1’s and 2’s will compare objects from the past and present, to investigate changes over time. The year 2’s will also pose and answer questions related to these objects from the past and present and write a short historical narrative. The year 2’s will then participate in further research re these historical objects via a school incursion ‘History on the Move’ in term 4.

Health & Physical education (HPE)

Year One Health and Physical Education Term Three Overview

In PE, students in year one will explore a range of dancers from around the world. In Health, students will identify personal hygiene habits and actions that help keep them healthy. Students will examine the 'Australian Guide to Healthy Eating' to make healthy food choices and will identify ways to keep their bodies physically active.

Year Two Health and Physical Education Term Three Overview

In PE, students in year two will demonstrate fundamental movement skills of rolling, balancing and jumping. They will perform gymnastic skills as a continuous movement sequence that incorporates the elements of movement: body awareness, effort (flow) and space awareness. In Health, students explore what shapes their own, their family and classroom's identity. They will examine strengths and achievements in individual and groups and ways to include others to make them feel they belong. Students will explore the importance of celebrating who they are and respecting each other's differences.

Music

During Term Three, the Year 1 students will focus on solfa notes and reinforce knowledge about rhythm and beat. They will listen and analyse musical pieces and learn a number of songs and musical games.

During Term Three, the Year 2 students will reinforce knowledge of the rhythmic elements – crotchet, quavers and minim. They will learn about strong and weak beats, rhythmic ostinato and percussion instruments.

Technology

Year 1 Students will explore how plants and animals are grown for food, clothing and shelter and how food is selected and prepared for healthy eating. They will design solutions for a farm to enable successful food and fibre production.

Year 2 Students will explore a range of familiar services and identify how each services meets a particular need within the community.

Assessment Schedule

Reading & Spelling

Our school continues to embed a whole school approach to reading and spelling across Prep to Year 6. This involves teaching the reading and spelling demands of the Australian Curriculum, providing students with a systematic synthetic phonics approach and unpacking the Big 6/Science of Reading through engaging and meaningful lessons. Students engage with decodable texts when learning to read and rich authentic texts when reading to learn and continue to use the PLD approach for their spelling and sound focus.

Homework

Homework will focus on reading practice but some number work may also be included. Home readers most often contain key sounds and list word which cannot easily be decoded (heart words or irregular high frequency words) the children will require for reading the text. They generally also list ideas for before, during, after reading and sometimes ideas for comprehension questions. Please encourage your child to attempt to read their text several times during the week so they can develop fluency.

Attendance

How to report an absence: 

• Email attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au or
• Call the school's absence line on 4057 1444, then press #1 and don't forget to leave a reason why your child/children are away, or
• Send a note to the classroom teacher on their return

Our school’s attendance target is 95% 

QParents

QP is an online portal helping the school move toward a cashless and paper friendly school. 

• The QP portal allows Parents and Carers to grant participation consent online for activities such as swimming and excursions which reduces our need to print out paper consent forms
• Also, the QP portal enables Parents and Carers to make payment online for school activities and viewing unpaid invoices payment history.

Thank you to all those parents who have registered for QParents. This means every registered parent now has the opportunity to access to their children’s student records at their fingertips, anytime, anywhere. Haven’t received an invitation from us yet? There’s still time! Please let us know immediately. Or if you are simply looking for further information, videos and FAQs on QParents, visit https://qparents.qld.edu.au

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