IEC Term 3 Overview 2022
Term overview
Welcome
Welcome back! We trust everyone had a fabulous holiday and that your child is ready for an exciting second half of the year in the IEC class. Individual student timetables have been sent home via email/communication books. If you would like to discuss your child’s timetable please email/phone to request a meeting time. If your child will be absent please ensure you let the office know by texting (SMS) 0428 621 921.
Arrivals
IEC students spend the first 30 mins of the day in their roll class. This allows for them to greet their classroom teacher and peers, and be included in morning well-being routines. Class rolls need to be marked by 9:05am each morning, if you are arriving after 9:05am please ensure that you get a late slip for your child from the office as teachers are unable to change their roll once it’s marked. Students transition much smother to and from classes when they are on time. If you could please arrive at your child’s roll class at 8:55am in order for classes to begin right on 9am! IEC staff will arrive to support IEC children at these classes at 9am.
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 schools attendance target is 95%
Reading / Spelling
This year our school implemented a systematic synthetic phonics approach that has a teaching sequence for reading and spelling which goes across the entire school. Promoting Literacy Development or PLD for short, provides teachers with an innovative, evidence-based approach to literacy and advocates that children’s literacy and learning outcomes are maximized when the areas of literacy, oral language and movement & motor skills are simultaneously targeted. With this change, we have been working with decodable texts instead of predictable texts in the teaching of reading.
Our IEC students (see picure below) have been working hard to decode their spelling and high frequency words!
English
This term students will be engaging with simple forms of rhyming poetry. Throughout this unit students will be developing their reading and writing and speaking and listening skills.
Students will be sequencing pictures and words to make simple sentences relating to the poems they have engaged with. They will be using pictorial sequences and illustrations to retell the story or message in known poems. Students will continue to engage in activities such as playdough, threading, pegging, painting, cutting, sticking, tracing and puzzles to build upon their pre-writing skills. Pre-writing skills are the fundamental fine motor skills that children need to develop before they begin to write They will continue to develop text production skills through the use of technology such as IPADS, computers and SMART boards.
Students will be expressing their likes and dislikes relating to familiar poems, sequencing key words to describe a favourite poem and making requests and giving reasons for their requests/choices. Students will listen for, identify and predict rhyme, and will sequence two key ideas from familiar poems. They will be responding to questions to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of familiar poems.
Maths
Number
Students will be sorting and describing groups of objects, they will be identifying and sequencing 2digit numbers, and recognising number sequences in everyday life.
Measurement , Data and Calendar
Students will be identifying and describing the basic characteristics of a range of objects, they will be following schedules and using a calendar to plot events and special occasions.
Money and Financial Mathematics
Students will identify money and what it is used for. They will engage in hands on practical activities such as cashier/shopping role play, banking and purchasing at the Trinity Dollar shop and tuckshop visits.
Science
Students will be identifying properties of living things, they will be matching familiar animals to the environment they live in and will use pictures and words to make observations of the life cycle of living things. Students will design and create their own diorama animal habitat to show their understanding of how a habitat meets the needs of a living thing.
HPE
In PE, students will explore a range of dancers from around the world. In Health, students will recognise how they are growing and changing and will identify actions that help them be healthy.
Music
In this unit, students will appreciate and analyse the music of Saint-Saens. They will consolidate their knowledge of rhythmical elements – Ta, Ti-ti and Za and learn tika-tika (semiquavers). Students will create and perform different rhythmical patterns using known rhythmical elements. They will learn about tuned and un-tuned percussion instruments and use these to produce rhythmical ostinatos. Students will be introduced to the musical forms of the canon, A form and AB form by singing different songs. They will consolidate their knowledge of the pentatonic scale.
Technology
The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program is a fun, hands-on learning program delivering pleasurable food education. With strong curriculum integration and a focus on student wellbeing, collaboration and leadership, students learn to grow, harvest, prepare and share fresh, seasonal, delicious food – forming positive food habits for life.
Contact information
Contact your childs teacher via email:
Caroline Houston - cahou1@eq.edu.au