Dear Families,
As per NSW Health and NSW Department of Education Guidelines, we have moved into a remote learning phase. To support our students and their families throughout this period, your child’s class teacher has helped to develop and select structured learning tasks that will ensure your child is able to confidently progress with their learning during this period.
Below is a list of tasks that are vital to supporting your child to continue making progress in their learning. You could complete every task every day or create a roster for which days you will do each one. Reading daily is always essential.
- Read every day, picking out sounds that your child is struggling with and exploring other words that use the same spelling pattern – eg: shark – park – bark – ship – shop – shoe
- Work on your homework project- "Country of Study"
- Reading, writing and Counting numbers forwards and backwards
- Count by 2, 5 and 10
- Friends of Ten (20/30/100/1000) eg: 7+3=10; 17+3=20; 17+13=30; 70+30=100; 700+300=1000
- Addition and subtraction using cards and counters - or pasta, rice, biscuits, etc...
- Revise number facts. eg 8+2=10, 15+5=20,
- Revise doubles - 2 doubled is 4; 7 doubled is 14 etc..
- Make ‘groups of’ items and relate this to multiplication – 3 groups of 2 equals 6 in total.
- Count small collections of money
Additionally, there are rubrics of optional ‘can do’ activities that you may wish to include depending on your family’s capacity to complete the work. All tasks come with worksheets where required.
We understand that many of our parents will also be trying to work from home, or there may be other school-aged children in the house that also need support with their learning. Please attempt what you can, but also take the time to enjoy developing your child’s life skills and sharing some of your own strengths and experiences with your children; creating memories that they will treasure.
We will give you a call to check in over the coming days. Please remember we are only a phone call away and are always more than happy to answer a question or just be there to support you in sharing our teaching role. Completed tasks can be returned to school for marking at the end of learning from home.
We thank you for your patience and understanding as we face these challenges together and want to reassure you that we are always here to help and look forward to life returning back to normal face-to-face teaching as soon as we are able.
For a copy of resources please call 02 6792 2246 or email
