Dear Families of 1SA,

This term, we are excited to present our assembly with our wonderful Year 3 buddy class, 3CJ. The theme of our assembly is “Growing.”

We have been exploring various aspects of growth, including how plants grow, the differences between living and non-living things, and conducted science experiments and height-measuring activities with our buddies.

We began practicing for the assembly in Week 2, and it will take place in the Hall this Friday, August 9th, starting at 9:00 a.m. Please ensure that your child arrives by 8:50 a.m. We will head straight to the hall at this time so if you can not see us in class please make your way to the hall and send your child through the stage door on the left hand side of stage.

At the end of the assembly, we encourage you to say goodbye to your child. Please wait until the other classes have left the hall, and we will send the children to you.

Thank you for your support. We look forward to seeing you this Friday morning.

Kind regards,

Mrs Sharman & Mrs Altschwager 🙂

Welcome to Week 2. This week both classes were busy with their assembly preparation. We still managed to fit in lots of learning.

1PN and 3MA Assembly- Thank you to all the parents and families for coming to the assembly and supporting the children. They have been working hard the last two weeks to present their assembly about International Friendship Day.

HASS

During Word Study we have continued to look at digraphs recapping ee, oo, oi, ou, ai and ea. See if your clever children have remembered the digraphs from below. Knowing these helps with our reading and spelling of words!

Mathematics- This week, we continued learning about equal sharing. The students had to share 20 objects equally between 2 groups, 4 groups and 5 groups.

Welcome to Term 3! We hope you all enjoyed the two week break and ready for a fun term ahead! We are kick starting the term with back to back assemblies, with 1PN hosting on Friday, Week 2 and 1SA hosting in Week 3. If your child brings home a reading part we encourage you to practise as much as possible to build confidence and readiness for the big day!

Reading Achievement-

Congratulations to Julian for completing 100 nights of reading! Well done!

For word study we are revisiting our digraph sounds and practising our sentence structure. We are making sure we use capital letters and full stops. Check out Elaynah and Saskia’s amazing work below.

Our new topic for Writer’s Workshop is NON-FICTION books. We have noticed that they often include a contents page, index and glossary. Some student have already begun to add labelled pictures in their own book making. Well done authors.

During Mathematics, we have started learning about equal groups; where students count out a total number of objects, then share them into equal groups. We watched the video below and practised sharing using unifix cubes and jelly beans!

HASS

Religion- This week in religion, we spoke about the word belonging and what it feels like to belong. We then discussed different groups that we belong to. The students created a web diagram of the groups that they belong to. They also wrote about what belonging means to them.

Welcome to the final week of Term 2. What a wonderful term it has been with so much growth and development along the way. We can’t wait to see how much learning we can fit into the next 6 months, before we have YEAR 2’s on our hands!

Science

This week we continued our learning on Living Things  where we ventured over to the MUDLA to explore animals, their habitats and how their needs are met.

English: Book Making

1SA and 1PN have also been busy during Writer’s Workshop investigating how Jez Alborough plans and creates his picture books. We investigated how Jez adds rhyming words to his books which makes it so much fun to read. We also noticed how much detail he adds to his illustrations and we can do that too!

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Learning Intention:

We are learning about colours and how they are used to make artwork. We are looking at artwork to apply our learning.

Success criteria:

I can use warm and cool colours to create a mars landscape 

Religion- This week the students created a poster showing what forgiveness means to them:

Technologies- Last week, the students designed their own cubby house showing the front on view and a bird’s eye view. This week, they created their cubby houses out of a box, coloured paper and markers:

FRIDAY FUN DAY

You should have now received your child’s report through email, please contact the school if you have not yet received a Semester One report. Students and parents are provided with Mid-Year and End of Year Summative Reports at Holy Family. These detail a student’s progress in Key Learning Areas and include a level of achievement, learning engagement and a core curriculum comment for English, Mathematics and Religion.

We hope you all have a lovely holiday break with lots of special family time, recharging the batteries from a busy term of learning!

Welcome to week 9! This week students have continued their investigations into living things. We discussed the needs of animals and shared this catchy tune…

Then it was time to create an animal and their shelter using play dough. The students enjoyed creating nests, burrows, birds and wombats. Check out some of their creations below…

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Learning Intention:

 We are learning about Primary and Secondary colours and how they are used to make artwork

Success criteria:

I can identify the 3 primary colours.

I can mix the primary colours together to make secondary colours.

Technologies- This week, the students designed a cubby house by drawing the front on view and the bird’s eye view of it. They will be making them next week.

Congratulations to Jayden for achieving 100 nights of reading! Well done!

Welcome to Week 8.

This week we finished out Maths topic about addition. During our adding dice games, it was wonderful to see so many students using the counting on from largest strategy! Then we began our new topic… SUBTRACTION!

During Science we explored how human needs can change based on their environment. We considered astronauts on the moon and people who work on submarines in the ocean. Their needs change based on their environment. Lots of scientific thinking happening this week!

A big congratulations to our MINI LIT MASTERS who have successfully completed Part A of the Minilit program!

Religion- This week, we listened to the story from John’s Gospel about the good shepherd. We heard about Jesus being the good shepherd to us and all people. The students had to write about how they can be a good shepherd in their lives.

Hope you have a great weekend!

Welcome to week 6!

This week we began our new spotlight study for Writer’s Workshop, all about the author Jez Alborough. You can check out some of his amazing picture books at his website https://jezalborough.com/

To get ourselves immersed in his writing we explored a huge stack of books where he is the author and illustrator and shared our findings.

During Mathematics, we continued our work on addition and began trying out doubling as well! Here we are playing the domino game with a partner. We had to subitise and add the domino dots together (always counting on from the largest number), whoever had the higher total got to keep the domino!

Technologies- For technologies this week, we continued to talk about looking at objects from a bird’s eye view. The students created a picture of a snowman from a bird’s eye perspective:

Have a great weekend! See you on Wednesday! (There is a pupil free day on Tuesday).

This week marked National Reconciliation Week, a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements. In honour of this, our classes had a liturgy on Monday morning, sharing our thoughts on forgiveness and saying sorry. Here are some clips that were viewed this week. Our school bell was also changed for the week to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists.

Our classes were also busy this week creating sensory bottles to sell on Mission Day to raise money for St Vincent de Paul, Catherine House and Catholic Charities.

To finish our inquiry into the weather, students created their own pinwheels to investigate wind and created a weather report to showcase their scientific knowledge. Our new topic in Science next week will be all about LIVING THINGS!

Religion- This week, we discussed the story of Jesus’ Baptism from the Gospel of Matthew. The students then drew and wrote something about the story, or drew and wrote something about a baptism they had been to:

Mission day:

Thank you for all your support for our Mission day, we had lots of food cans donated and tokens purchased where all the money raised goes to several Charities.

There were so many amazing stalls:

sensory bottles

playdough

braclets

disco

bean bag toss

bubbles

Guess the teachers school photos as kids

lucky dip

boomarks

cards of kindness

Welcome to week 4. This week we worked on the digraphs /ch/, /ng/ and /wh/. We are very proud of the improvements we are seeing in the student’s handwriting and stamina with work completion. Check out these three examples of the progress made from term 1 to term 2! Amazing effort to all!

Some great reading is happening at home too. We know that regular reading at home can…

• Build concentration
• Improve memory
• Teach children about the world
• Develop empathy
• Expand vocabulary
• Boost critical thinking
• Help build positive self-image
• Enhance performance in school

Congratulations to Grace for reaching 100 nights of reading!

This week we also continued our learning about rights and responsibilities. We viewed the story ‘Willy and High’ by Anthony Browne and had a great discussion about respectful relationships. You may like to view and discuss the book at home too (watch in link below)! The students then drew a picture of a positive relationship they have and the rights and responsibilities that are integral to the relationship.

Technologies- This week for technologies, the students created the masks that they designed last week. Here is what they came up with:

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Today we used what we have been learning about LINES, to create crazy hair pictures of Mr Norris and Mrs A

Reminders…

• Parents are welcome to attend the Mission Day Mass on Friday May 30th at 11:30am, and later the activities commencing at 1.30pm. (Please sign in at the front office on arrival)
• MISSION DAY LUNCH: Students will be able to pre-order a MissionDay lunch of Pasta Bake and water/fruit box through the canteen or QKR! App.  The normal canteen menu for lunch orders will not be available on Mission Day, however, the canteen will still be open at Recess.
• The purchase of tokens will be available on Friday 31 May from the class teachers or by pre-purchasing the tokens through the QKR! App. All money raised for Mission Week will go to St Vincent de Paul, Catherine House and Catholic Charities.