Come Read with Me
We began the morning by reading our books during Come Read with Me.
At home tip: You can read for 20 minutes with your library books or the books you have at home. You can read to you or a sibling, you can even read to your favourite teddy! Remember to use the pictures to help tell the story and to look for words and letters that you know.
For families that speak another language at home, you can access some stories online in your own language via this website; https://worldstories.org.uk/library
We encourage children to learn many languages and think that is is beneficial for you to speak and share language in a language that you may have learned as a child
Shared Reading
We read our Shared Reading book and tried to spot our word of the week “love”, every time we saw our word of the week we clapped. This gives us a chance to identify the word quickly in a text.
At home tip; you can access this text from home via YouTube; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4vEj8TMkW4
Can you find the word “love” in the text?
Literacy Learning Experiences
We explored our Literacy Learning Experiences.
At home tip; Have a look at our blog from Monday to see our literacy focuses for this week and to see ideas of how you can access this learning at home: https://blogs.holyfamily.catholic.edu.au/r1gtr1ma2020/2020/03/30/monday-30th-march-2020/
Prayer
Zac; Thank you God for the food on this planet and that you for the farmers that grow the food, Amen
Emily: Dear God, Thank you for all my friends in the school, Amen
Bodhi; Thank you God for this world we live in and for the food that we can eat, Amen
Campbell; thank you God for my lovely class, Amen
Nahom; Dear God, Thank you for the wonderful people and the countries and for all the money and everything people get to have, Amen
Will; Thank you God for making Celina and Emily so then I can play what’s the time mr wolf on the oval with them, Amen
Massa; Dear God, Thank you for the lovely class we have and let Jesus grow the flowers so we can be happy, Amen
Nyok; Dear God, Thank you for all the schools and all the lovely choices and all the stuff they can play with, Amen
Celina; Dear God, Thank you for being happy and the rainbows, Amen
Sports
We went to sport with Mrs Cooymans.
At home tip; There is a weekly challenge for at home posted on the sports blog. Can you give it a go? Here is the link; http://blogs.holyfamily.catholic.edu.au/pe/
“Love is” reflection
Following on from our Shared Reading Book “Koala Lou” we reflected on what love means…
We watched a YouTube clip to begin with.
What is love?
Emily; When you love something or someone
Zac; You can love your friends, your family, your cousins or anyone that you’d like to love
Nahom; Love is that someone gives you a present and you love it and you love them for giving you a present
Nyok: Like when you really do love someone
Zac; You love somebody in your life that you like and you share things. Sharing love around and giving love to the people and friends and family and you can love other people
Massa; love means when it’s your birthday they give you a surprise or present and you love them so much
Nahom; If you love someone you can share something with your friends and you can give them something and if you love them you can be friends with them
Bodhi; My brother gave me Lego and I bought him an apple watch, that’s love because we all have to share
We reflected in our learning journals about what love is…
At home tip; reflect on what love means to you? can you record it on a piece of paper or in a book? We started by writing “Love is” at the top of our page, some of us finished the sentence and other reflected through drawing…
Numeracy
We explored our Number based Numeracy Investigations.
At home tip; Have a look at our blog from Monday to see our numeracy focuses for this week and to see ideas of how you can access this learning at home: https://blogs.holyfamily.catholic.edu.au/r1gtr1ma2020/2020/03/30/monday-30th-march-2020/
There are also some resources on last Wednesday’s blog; https://blogs.holyfamily.catholic.edu.au/r1gtr1ma2020/2020/03/25/wednesday-25th-march-2020/
Mindfulness
At home tip; Spend some time to slow down and calm your body. You can calm your body through guided meditations, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KF4rWQE8HU
Investigations
At home tip; This is a time for you to explore your interests through play. Think about what you can use at home. If mum lets you, you could even do some cooking or help out with other things we do around the house. Remember that no matter what were doing we are always learning. You could use Lego to make and build. You could draw pictures. You could even teach a sibling or your favourite teddy something new! What are your ideas for Investigations at home?
Please have a read of this week’s newsletter. You can access the newsletter at the Holy Family Catholic School website or via this link; http://www.holyfamily.catholic.edu.au/newsletters/