Just a reminder that next week we will be celebrating Harmony Week as a school community.
Harmony Day is a day to celebrate Australia’s diversity. It is a week of cultural respect for everyone who calls Australia home. The ongoing theme of Harmony Day is “everyone belongs”. By participating in Harmony Day activities, we can learn and understand how all Australians equally belong to this nation and enrich it. At Holy Family each class will be involved in activities leading up to and on Harmony Day.
All families are invited to a Harmony Day morning tea in the staff room on Tuesday 19 March at 9:00am. Please join us for a bite to eat and to get to know other families in a relaxed environment. For catering purposes please RSVP to emma.finos@holyfamily.catholic.edu.au
On Friday 22 March students are encouraged to wear traditional cultural clothing, orange or school uniform. Students will also be able to order a special Harmony Day lunch of Butter Chicken or Chickpea Curry and rice and an Orange Jelly for $6.50 through the canteen. The normal canteen menu for lunch orders will not be available on Harmony Day however the canteen will still be open at recess.
Welcome to Week 7. We have had another wonderful week of learning!
In technologies, we explored creating graphs to represent our favourite ‘everyday’ foods. The students chose 5 of their favourite everyday foods to eat, collected their own data using tally marks, added the tallies together to create a total and showed their findings on a bar graph.
This week our focus sounds in word study were ‘u, l and f‘. We also explored the sight word on. When exploring these sounds and words students take part in a range of activities. They have a go at playing sound/word games, have a go at writing on a whiteboard and then complete an activity in their books. Students also use their word detective skills to find our focus sounds in their library books.
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We started a new topic in Maths this week. We are now looking at how to skip count by 5s when counting a collection of objects. We have talked lots about why skip counting is a more efficient way of counting and also noticed a pattern being that each number ends in a 5 then a 0.
We read a the story Starry Fish which was all about starfish counting by 5s. We then had a go creating our own starfish out of play dough and gave them 5 legs using matchsticks. Have a look at our hard work.
I can skip count by 5s to 100. I can paste the missing number in order.
In HASS, we have been exploring how families have changed over time and how all of our families look different. This week we worked in pairs to discuss the similarities and differences between each others families. The students enjoyed talking about their own family and found it extremely interesting that their peers family homes looked a little different to theirs. Have a look at our drawings.
