Welcome to term 4 EAL Families,
In term 4 the students became familiar with the structure and purpose of a narrative. They were able to identify that a narrative has characters, setting, problem and a solution. We read fairy tales such as Goldilocks, Little Red Riding hood and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Children enjoyed writing a narrative and illustrated a story for our Foundation friends.
For reading in semester 2 we focused on learning letter names and sounds. We also focused on digraphs looking at the one sound two letters make. We completed comprehension questions that were answered in the text directly and indirectly. We used the Colourful Semantics program to develop our understanding of a sentence structure. We used the terms who, what, what doing and what like to make interesting sentences with a joining word such as and, but or because.
Numeracy
In semester two students played various number games to improve number fluency. Students have been exposed to the language of time, fractions, 2D shapes, 3D objects and money. In Number and Algebra students have been looking at different strategies to add and subtract with and without renaming, multiply and divide. They used strategies such as count on, count back, doubles and the split strategy to support their understanding. We also focussed on recognising Australian notes and coins.
Inquiry
In semester 2 our inquiry topics were linked to our writing topics so that EAL students could recycle the language during the remote learning period. We focused on Australian animals and learnt how to research facts about Australian animals using multi modal devices.
In term 4 we focused on fairy tales where we watched and listened to traditional tales from around the world and looked for messages in the stories we read and linked them to own lives.
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