Health & Physical Education

Movement & Physical Activity:

• Organised Tabloid sports
• Predict how exercise will affect the body
• Identify four things that happen to our body during exercise
• Daily running program

Health Knowledge & Promotion:

• Nutrition & healthy eating
• Dental & general cleanliness
• Promote safe behaviours (road safety, drug education, stranger danger)
• Self-esteem

Interpersonal Development:

Working in Teams:

• Develop skills in working in a group
• Contribute & reflect on learning as part of a team
• Sharing & caring for equipment & resources

Building Social Relationships:

• Begin to develop positive social relations with a range of people across the school (ie. Principal, office staff, canteen manager etc)
• Use role plays to act out different social situations with an emphasis on honesty & resilience
• Understand & resolve conflict

English

Early Years Literacy Program

Reading :

• Read aloud simple texts
• High-frequency words
• Fluency, comprehension & use of strategies are encouraged
• Use context & information about words, letters, combinations of letters & the sounds associated with them to make meaning

Writing:

• Correct formation of letters & numerals
• Encourage correct posture & pencil grip
• Phonics: e, i, o, u, j, k, w, b, p, v
• Isolating sounds & blending simple words
• Attempts at writing own sentences with an awareness of spacing & punctuation
• Students write personal recounts & simple texts about familiar topics to convey ideas or messages
• Progression to lined paper

Speaking & Listening:

• Contribute relevant ideas during class or group discussion
• Sequence main events & ideas coherently in speech
• Speak at an appropriate volume and pace for listener's needs
• Self-correct by rephrasing a statement or question when meaning is not clear
• Develop the conventions of everyday communication, group discussion & formal presentations

Communication

Listening Viewing & Responding:

• Being attentive listeners
• Facing the speaker
• Taking turns
• Listen without interrupting

Presenting:

• Share their playground with the class & explain the process & the materials used to construct it

Personal Learning

The Individual Learner:

• Develop greater awareness of their own personal characteristics and capabilities
• Develop self assessment skills

Managing personal learning:

• Develop skills in time management & task achievement
• Develop strategies to manage their emotions and develop positive attitudes to learning

Civics & Citizenship

• Value: Honesty & Resilience

Civic Knowledge & Understanding:

• Emphasise the importance of honesty in the classroom & wider community

Community Engagement:

• Follow family sport and game rules.

Maths

Early Years Numeracy Program

Refer to Term 3 Mathematics Planner

Humanities

• Explore how and why natural factors such as changes in the weather and human activities affect their lives

Design, Creativity & Technology

Investigating & Designing:

• Create a design brief for their playground

Producing:

• Produce a playground using plasticine, sticks and pipe cleaners
• Develop skills in the safe use of basic everyday tools

Anlaysing & Evaluating:

• Evaluate their playground and that of their peers

Information & Communications Technology (ICT)

ICT for Visualising Thinking:

• Kidspiration: Healthy and Unhealthy foods
• Venn diagram

ICT for Creating:

• Create a PowerPoint presentation (typing text, slide designing, adding graphics & backgrounds)
• Create a Publisher brochure

ICT for Communicating

• Sharing their Publisher brochure
• Sharing their PowerPoint presentation

Science

Science Knowledge & Understanding:

• Use the senses to observe & describe the world around them

Science at Work:

• Sorting & classifying foods

Thinking Processes

Reasoning, Processing & Inquiring:

Graphic organisers

• Venn diagram: Sorting things that are safe/unsafe to put in our mouths
• T-Chart: Road safety. Examine the picture cards & identify the problem & the solution
• Class concept map

Creativity:

Thinker's Keys

• Reverse Key: Name a food you wouldn't see growing in the ground?
• What if: we didn't exercise?

De Bono's thinking hats

• Yellow/black hat activity. Place healthy food on one body cut out and unhealthy food on the other. Make a fruit person. Brainstorm healthy snacks for lunchboxes
• Red hat: Flower activity

Reflection, Evaluation & Metacognition:

Blooms

• Evaluating: Evaluate their playground and that of their peers