Montessori 1/2 - Term 3 Curriculum Overview

Term 3

English

Oral retell of a narrative

Students listen to, view, and retell orally a familiar fairy-tale displaying a range of speaking skills.  These skills include using appropriate volume, eye-contact, appropriate pace and tone and consideration of stance and gestures. Students will respond to texts by expressing opinions of retold fairy-tale by answering reflection questions. Next term, students will extend this knowledge into writing their own narratives. 

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 number to 120 and year 2 student to 1000. Students also need to be able partition either 2 or 3 digit numbers. Give and follow directions and 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. Year 2 students will learn to tell the time to the hour, half hour and quarter hours on an analogue clock and use calendars to determine days between events.

HASS

Year 1 My Changing World

What are the features of my local places and how have they changed?

In this unit, students: investigate a local place to identify and describe its features (natural, managed and constructed), the activities that occur there, how the place changes and ways to care for it. Students will represent places using pictorial maps and describe local places using the language of direction and location.

Year 2 Impacts of Technology Over Time

Students conduct an inquiry to answer the question: How and why have changes in road transport affected the lives of people over time?

In this unit, students:  will investigate continuity and change in technology, compare and contrast objects from the past and present, sequence key developments, pose questions and describe the impacts of changes in technology. 

HPE

In PE, students in Year 1 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.  

Students in Year 2 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 will 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 3, 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.

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:

In Technologies, 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. Students will investigate how food and fibre are grown to meet human needs.

YEAR 2:

In this unit, students will explore the characteristics and properties of materials and components that are used to produce designed solutions. They will design and make a spinning toy .

Assessment Schedule

Social Emotional Learning/Self-Regulation

The Pause Program will commence in week 6 of this term. Why the Pause approach?

• Pause teaches students the importance of recognising the signals in their body that their brain sends them.
• Pause teaches students the three key parts of the brain that are responsible for thinking, emotions and long term memory.
• Pause empowers students to self-regulate their own behaviour by taking notice and acting on the signals they receive from their brain in a positive way.
• Wellbeiing underpins the way children feel about themselves and how they relate to others.
• Pause improves children’s wellbeing by teaching them about Neuroscience and Mindfulness.

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: 

Either:

• Text (SMS)* 0428 621 921 (preferred method) *SMS line does not take calls & no emoji’s please SMS any time, with student name, reason for absence and duration.

• Call the absence Line: 4057 1444 (press #1) only available after 8:30 am Leave student name and reason for absence.
• Email: attendance@trinitybeachss.eq.edu.au before 9:30am.

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

Tuckshop

Tuckshop operates daily during the two breaks. Orders can be placed online via FlexiSchools or at the tuckshop on a paper bag. Tuckshop orders are placed in class tuckshop basket before 9am. Miscellaneous items can be purchased over the counter.  Please talk to your child about not giving money away or sharing food.

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