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Dear Parents,

Welcome to Term 3! I am extremely proud of the progress students are making in all areas of the curriculum especially reading and writing. Thank you for all your support at home too.

It’s going to be a very busy and exciting term, as we have our “100 Days of School” celebration coming up on 7th August, which the students have been enthusiastically counting down. They have also started the gymnastics program which will run for 7 weeks until 3rd September. Here is also a brief outline of our focus in the different curriculum areas during this term.

Reading

• focussing on text and fluency when reading
• reading on to the end of the sentence, then rereading to decode unknown text
• comprehension and enjoyment when reading
• recognition of high frequency words. These high frequency words make up the majority of words we read and write. Please remember to practise words sent with your child every night

Spelling focus:

• saying, writing and recognising all 26 letter-sounds
• using initial letter-sounds, final letter-sounds in words and medial vowels
• writing common high frequency words such as can, this, said, play, went

Writing focus:

• recounts of shared experiences
• diary recounts of weekend activities
• using capital letters, full stops and spacing between words in sentences
• Developing skills to:
  - List
  - Provide simple instructions visually and/or in sentence form.

Our handwriting focus will be on:

• correct pencil grip
• posture
• using the correct starting point when writing letters
• letter shape and size
• neatness

Maths focus:

During Term 3 we will focus on:

• Introducing counting by 2’s, 5’s & 10’s (number patterns)
• Counting up to 50 plus
• Counting all in a group and counting on from a given number.
• Numbers before, after and between.
• Simple addition using number stories and concrete materials such as icypole sticks, unifix and counters.
• Location: Describing the position of objects or people
• Develop positional language (map)
• Weight (mass) – heavy and light
• Collecting own data and displaying data using simple pictographs and bar graphs.

I look forward to another successful and rewarding term.