Welcome to Week 7. With only 4 days this week, we sure packed a lot in!

Our focus letters were /u/ and /l/
Our focus words were ‘her’ and ‘his’

Tuesday morning began with literacy investigations; reading and writing our way into the day.

Then we continued to work on our tens and ones during Mathematics. We also began our new topic about skip counting. Here’s a catchy tune to help you remember.

Our focus for Drama this week was role play. On Wednesday, we became possums inspired by the book ‘Possum Magic’ written by Mem Fox. Students made a possum mask to help become the characters of Poss and Hush. Role play involves acting out these roles, using imagination and creativity to bring the characters to life using their bodies, voices and actions. We have some great actors and actresses amongst our classes!

HASS

Our Learning Intention: We are learning how family structures have changed over time.

Success Criteria: I can share how family structures have changed from past to present. I can share things that are the same about my family and my friends family.

We discussed that across time, families have always looked different to each other, however in the past they tended to be more similar than our wide variety of families today. We noticed that in the past, families all had similar structure and often were quiet large. We noticed that today we can have families such as nuclear families, one-child families, families that live in 2 different houses, step parents, step siblings, extended families and kinship groups etc.

Religion- The past two weeks we have been looking at the Project Compassion campaign, and where the money goes when we raise it. Thank you so much to the families that have raised money for this cause, so far. This week, we viewed a video about Leaia and her family from Samoa. The students had to compare their life to Leaia’s life,  finding similarities and differences.

https://www.caritas.org.au/project-compassion/primary-student-zone

Friday –

Today we were strengthening our blending skills:

Blending is the process of joining one or more sounds together in order to read a word. Sometimes it helps to say the separate sounds several times over so that children can begin to hear the word you are blending. For example: d/o/g, d/o/g, d/o/g = dog!

 

Reading Achievements- Congratulations to Grace who achieved 25 nights of reading! Well done!