Hello Parents
Please find attached the registration QR code for the Crows afterschool Kickstart Program which is for Reception – year 2 students.
The free program is after school from 3:30 – 4:30 on Tuesdays.
Starts 7th May – 28th of May
Welcome to Term 2! We hope you all enjoyed the holiday break and ready for lots of fun and learning together this term. A few reminders to kick start the term…
Reading Achievements-
Congratulations to Jayden for achieving 25 and 50 nights of reading! Well done!
Congratulations to Julian for achieving 50 nights of reading! Well done!
Congratulations to Grace for achieving 75 nights of reading! Well done!
What a busy start to the term. On our very first day back we began a new topic for word study all about digraphs where two letters team up to make one sound. We practised the digraphs /ck/, /ff/ and /ss/
In order to remember to punctuate our work, we began learning about KUNG FU PUNCTUATION. You may like to have a go at home.
During Maths we started a new topic about PATTERNS. Here we are at work making patterns with different materials…
Religion- For the first few weeks during religion lessons, we will be learning about Mary. This week we watched the story of the Annunciation, where an angel came to Mary to tell her that she will have a son called Jesus, who will be the son of God.
During term 1 in WORD STUDY – we were learning to SPELL these sight words. Some words don’t follow their phonological sounds therefore some words we need to just learn by heart. We covered the SPELLING of these 15 words (below) in term 1. Today we will be checking on each children’s ability to recall the correct spelling of all 15 of these words below. If you think your child would benefit from some extra practice SPELLING these words we would love you to practice at home with them :). In term 2 we will be moving onto new words.
Play based investigations:
Our Science topic this term is weather and we’ve also looked at rights and responsibility of the child during Health. Phew… a very busy first week!
Reading Achievement- Congratulations to Mason who achieved 50 nights of reading! Well done!
On Wednesday, the 10th of April, we had our school Sports Day. Congratulations to St Vincent De Paul (cream) team who won the day.
Have a lovely holiday and we will see you in term 2.
As we come the the end of Easter, we are asking for families to send back their Project Compassion boxes with any money collected to school in the next few days.
Thank you for all your efforts and support for this project!
We began the week with our Palm Sunday celebrations. Mr Norris shared a prayer with us before our classes walked around the school viewing artwork displayed on each classroom door. Wow! What amazing displays. We particulaly liked the art by 2MR and 2NP who put so much detail into their drawings! On our return we watched the following song celebrating Jesus’ arrival into Jerusalem.
Our classes also explored the ‘Stations of the Cross’ by using iPads to find QR codes around the school. Each station shared a different reflection about Holy Week.
Our class has many skilled authors and illustrators! During book making we have watched one of our characters come to life using RakugakiAR. This app allows you to see your characters in 3D, feed them and play with them. It can spark a world of possibilities for book making!
During Technologies we explored traditional Kaurna food and recorded foods that were eaten in the past.
Health- For our health lesson this week, we spoke about places that we can go to, that we feel safe in. The students recorded some of these places and wrote why they feel safe there:
Mathematics- This week we have been counting by 10s. The students created their own rocket ships by counting by 10s up to 120.
EASTER FUN!
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!
Reminders
Thank you to those families who let us know of upcoming absences, it is much appreciated. Do be sure to cc in the following email so the office staff can input information regarding holidays and appointments etc into our class roll on SEQTA. Thanks again 🙂
absent@holyfamily.catholic.edu.au
Welcome to Harmony Week where we celebrated the amazing diversity of this community! We began the week sharing this beautiful song about belonging.
Our focus letters were f, b and l
Our focus words were she and it.
Mathematics- This week, we have been doing lots of learning to do with ‘counting by 5s’.
On Wednesday, the students worked with a partner to count by 5s. They used match sticks and labelled their learning:
HASS: We are learning how everyday life has changed from the past.
We viewed some videos from the 1900’s. We talked about how lots of the technology that we have today wasn’t around in the past and a lot of things had to be done by hand – making butter was one of those!!! we then worked together to make our own butter using just a jar, some cream and a lot of man power.
Success Criteria: I can share / draw how everyday life is different from past to present.
Congratulations to Julian who has achieved 25 nights of reading! Well done!
HARMONY DAY
Friday:
2MR and 2NP are presenting a special Harmony Day assembly
Cultural dress: Children are invited to wear their cultural dress or orange or school uniform.
Special canteen menu : Butter Chicken or Chickpea Curry and rice and orange jelly $6.50
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!
Welcome to Week 6, we also welcome in the new season of AUTUMN. Discussing months and seasons is a great way for students to learn about time, we begin each morning by looking at our monthly calendar and upcoming events.
This week we have focused on the sounds /d/ /g/ and /o/ and our focus has been writing on the lines and clear finger spaces. Just a reminder when discussing and encouraging writing at home… Before becoming a conventional speller (like you) there are specific stages that a child will progress through; all important, all valid! Each and every student is on their own writing journeys and will be in different stages of the writing continuum pictured below.
Mr Terminell0 came into our class on Wednesday to read us a lovely story called ‘The Golden Rule’ By Cooper Ilene. It had a lovely and very important message…
You may like to think about how to follow the golden rule at school and home. The Golden Rule encourages us to treat others as we would like to be treated. For instance, most people appreciate it when others treat them with respect, kindness, and love. Logically, then, we should “do the same way” to others.—Luke 6:31
Technologies- In food technologies this week, we spoke about everyday foods. The students had to come up with 5 everyday foods and surveyed the class about which one was their favourite. They then graphed their results:
HASS – This week in HASS we are learning about different types of families.
Success Criteria:
I can talk about different family structures
I can draw my own family structure
MATHS – This week we have been working on our understanding of tens and ones
Reminder – NO SCHOOL on Monday (11th March) for Adelaide cup