Welcome to Tuesday

Today it is Owen’s birthday – we hope you had a super, fun day celebrating with your friends.

As always, we began our day with a song, a book and a reflection about the weather and feelings.

Rocket Writing

Focus: Using the joining words to build a sentence.

• so
• then
• because
• and

Children were set the challenge – How many sentences can you write?

Some of the children worked independently, others worked collaboratively with me on the mat to create sentences to copy.

Fitness – stick collections for tasks later in the week.

Numeracy

Today we revisited money investigations. The tasks we explored were:

Setting up a shop

Making amounts

Ordering in value

Counting by 5’s and 10’s

Spanish

Play Investigations

• Painting
• Collage
• Paper Folding
• Lego Challenge
• Shops
• Box Construction
• Mixing Colours
• Blocks
• Lego
• Small World play

Learning through play  is only limited by your imagination.

Have a good night – See you tomorrow

Welcome to Monday – Last week of Term 2

Adum was busy on the weekend drawing the class – Fantastic work Adum 🙂

What is happening on the calendar?

Adum – We are going to have one more week at school and then it is school holidays.

Jed – Tomorrow is Owen’s birthday.

Emily – It is Monday.

Jordan – After Owen’s birthday it is Felipe’s birthday.

Alexa – In 6 more days it is Mrs Rodgers birthday.

Ishpreet – It is laptop day.

Come Read with Me

Shared Text – Stick Man

A wonderful, fun story which combines beautiful illustrations, repetition and rhyme.

Writer’s Workshop

Before we started writing today we explored a different way of starting a story-

Focus – Story starters:  In a big tree there lived a….

(We are setting the scene and also introducing the characters)

We also talked about our stories having a beginning, middle and end.

Creating a Book Cover

Combining Literature and Art

The children were encouraged to use two different types of mediums to create a cover for their book.

• Textas
• Crayon
• Paint
• Collage
• Pencils

We talked about including the title, the character and their name (as the author).

Numeracy

Laptop Games

Roll dice Addition

Shape Pictures

Learning through Collaboration

Other tasks included movie making.

While engaging in laptop tasks the children are building upon important learning dispositions essential for life long learning.

• Communication – discussion, questioning, negotiation
• Collaboration
• Persistence
• Creativity
• Literacy skills – reading, comprehension, oral language
• Problem Solving

We finished the day with one of our favourite songs.

Have a good night – see tomorrow

Catholic Identity Day

We begin our day with a story from the Bible and a song or. two.

Lessons From Zacchaeus in the Bible

The story of Zacchaeus in the Bible. The truth that if you want God to change your life, He can, and will. Zacchaeus knew what he was. He knew what people thought about him. But he wanted Jesus. He wanted to change.

Zacchaeus wanted to see Jesus, no matter what it took. He put aside his pride to climb the tree to catch a peek. Zacchaeus was excited to see Jesus and he wanted to change.

Imagine how Zacchaeus felt when Jesus called to him.

• Jesus sees value in every person. While the crowds were grumbling, Jesus was welcoming. Jesus knew Zacchaeus mattered. Jesus knew Zacchaeus. And when Zacchaeus saw the Jesus that knew him, he changed.
• Jesus wanted to be part of Zacchaeus’s life just like he wants to be part of your life.

We shared Father Shibu’s welcome to Catholic Identity Day.

Part of his message included  – Education of heart is at the heart of education and the importance of celebrating and recognising difference. This links to our discussion after this mornings story and heart drawings about ‘Opening our heart’ to others and celebrating diversity.

Buddy Rotations – Exploring Catholic Identity

• We are all a part of the same team – Collaboration Games – Mr Stamare
• Mudla – All creatures great and small – Mrs Stam
• Cross Book marks – Symbol of Hope – Mrs Rodgers

End of the day reflections:

Harper – I enjoyed playing and helping people if they fall over.

Annabelle – I love the team work.

Elnathan – Jesus did team work with his disciples to spread the word of God. I liked everything, it was a fun day for me.

Eann – I love colouring the Cross because it is fun.

Bibi – I liked making the crosses

Laura – I liked going to the Fish Farm and I touches the turtle.

Jed – I liked doing the Cross.

Kalil – I liked colouring the Crosses.

At the end of the day we also watched a video about the learning across the school in relation to Catholic Identity and Father Shibu’s farewell message.

Reflection upon the day:

Education of heart is the heart of education.   Father Shibu

We celebrate difference and accepting everyone for who they are.

We open our hearts to everyone and be kind and helpful as Jesus did.

We are grateful for all  – our friends and family and all the creatures on earth.

Have a wonderful weekend – see you on Monday.

A busy, but fun Thursday in R1 MR

Journal and Come Read with me

Our day starts with a song and conversation.

The children are doing a great job setting up their journal and recording their reflection about the weather and feelings.

Shared Text – ‘or’ digraph

Literacy Rotations

• ‘or’ words – List words – To understand the meaning of the word the children were then asked to write a sentence using the word.
• Design your own monster and then describe it

PE

Practise – Lock Down Drill

Today we had a practise Lock Down Drill – the children were in PE/Sports during this time.

We talked this morning about the practise. We have a lockdown if there is something outside that is dangerous and the safest place for us is inside. When talked about the importance if the siren sounds we need to listen to the teacher to find out what we need to do and where we need to go.

Mrs Cooymans said everyone was amazing at listening and were very caring during the drill.

Numeracy Investigations

• Coin rubbings – Investigating the pictures and numbers on the coins
• Sorting coins in order of value – recognising and identifying
• Making amounts – How many ways can we make different amounts?
• Counting amounts – How much money in the piggy bank?
• Going shopping – Exchanging money and exploring value

Our Rights and Responsibilities – Discussion

Rights

Everyone has the right to be safe, go to school and to be health.

Responsibilities

Elnathan – To take care of people

Adum – A responsibilities it when you look after something because it is your so it is your responsibility.

Jordan – Is when you be kind to someone and they be kind to you back.

Harper – Responsibility means you have look after your sister or brother if your parents need to go out and do somethings.

Annabelle – Is like when you listen to your parents and look after them.

Tina – Listening to the teacher.

Jordan – Your responsibility in your class is when you look after everyone.

Felipe – To take care of the things in the class

In our class it is our responsibilities to keep ourselves and others safe, happy so we can be fun and learn

When we play soccer on the oval – who has the right to play.

Everyone has the right to play.

Who is responsible for people playing soccer – to be safe and have fun?

It is everyone responsibility when we play, to play safely and to help each other have fun.

We will continue to use these words ‘rights’ and ‘responsibilities’  in our classroom during the day to reinforce expectations.

Have a wonderful night – see you tomorrow.

Wonderful Wednesday

Come Read with Me

Finding ‘oo’ words in the books

Shared Text – Short ‘oo’ sound

Literacy Rotations

• Speech Bubbles – What did the gruffalo say to the mouse?

Introduction to speech bubbles – the children thought about what the two characters could say to each other.

• Mini Books – Look in my book

The children explored making a book. The children were encouraged to make an information book about animals.

Play Investigations

Religion

What is the message from the story?

Abraham – You should help one another.

Alexa – You should someone if they are hurt, doesn’t walk past them.

Mya – If you walk past them you have to be kind.

Tina – When someone get hurts you help them.

Jordan – The man (Good Samaritan)  helped the other man.

Elnathan – So if someone gets hurt you don’t just go and do what you want,  you can’t just leave them hurt, you have to hurt them.

What does the Bible say about our neighbours –

“The Lord Our God, The Lord is One; Thou shalt love thyLord, thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind”, before also referring to a second commandment, “And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self.”

The children were encouraged to retell the story using words and pictures.

Welcome to a terrific Tuesday full of learning.

Today we shared books with our friends during come read with me. The children are encouraged to be leaders during this time and support the younger children in our class to build their confidence as readers.

Time for a little brain break – sight word rap before sharing our text.

Shared Text – The Gruffalo

Before moving into rocket writing we talked about words that help us build a sentence.

We picked some words from the middle of the circle and helped each other build a sentence.

Abraham: We went to the shop and after that we went home.

Adum: I went to the pool so I could swim

Jerry: It was a hot day and we relaxed at the beach.

Elnathan: One day my friend and I went to the beach but my friend wanted to go to the park.

Alexa: I was last in the race.

Kalil: Finally it was my turn on the slide.

Annabelle: Then I was on the aeroplane.

The children were encouraged to use this words during their rocket writing. We will continue this learning next week during rocket writing.

100 Languages of learning

Below  are some of the ideas to challenge and inspire the children’s thinking about exploring the text using 100 languages.

The children’s creativity lead to this learning:

What is Numeracy on the laptop?

Adum –  I am going on to the game when you share out the cookies on to the same number.

Elnathan – Draw maths questions – addition or subtraction

Ishpreet – I would play the game when you put the number in the same order.

Bibi – I would go on the game.

Alexa – Draw somethings (you could use shapes)

The children were encouraged to explore the different tools and resources on the Laptop before engaging with the numeracy games.

Have a wonderful evening – see you tomorrow

Welcome to Marvellous Monday

Come Read with Me

This is always a wonderful way to start the day. During this time some children have been asked to support the younger children – here I observe kindness, leadership and collaboration.

Shared Text – This book was requested for this week. I fun story, full of repetition and rhyme.

Writer’s Workshop – Soooo many photos because everyone is writing so much!! I am so proud of everyone.

Dining Hall

What a delicious lunch we had – Fish, chips, garlic bread, cake and custard. Thank you to the canteen ladies for the delicious lunch we really enjoyed it.

Play investigations

While the children engaged in play investigations, Mrs Rodgers listened to reading.

Play Investigations – building upon our learning dispositions of leadership, collaboration, creativity and sense making while engaging in the following tasks.

• Role PLay
• Blocks
• Lego
• Bey Blades
• Hama Beads
• Beading
• Games

Have a good night see you tomorrow.

Welcome to our fun Friday

(A friendly reminder  – our next Dining Hall is on Monday – please bring a plate, fork and spoon)

This morning we went to view the ‘Refugee Week’ Art Exhibition in the centre. The children were amazed at the creativity, specifically the use of colour, shapes and images. Well done to all those who entered.

Numeracy

Data collections

What colour do you like?

Today the children used tallying to collect data about favourite colours. The children picked 4 different colours to set up their tallying sheet.

Together we did one as a class first and then the children collected their own data.

This data was then transferred into a graph format.

But first we planned a graph as a group and then the children had a go.

After recess we revisited our learning and drew another graph as a group. The children then went on to finish their our recordings.

Play Investigations  and Game Time (and eating oranges)

Some of our activities included:

• Block area – Oral language and role play
• Hama Beads – Building persistence and resilience
• Marble run – Sense making and Collaboration
• Drawing – Imagination and creativity
• Uno – leadership and zest

Have a great Weekend – Don’t forget Dining Hall on Monday

What a beautiful, sunny Thursday !

Shared Text – ‘oo’ digraph

Literacy rotations

• Building a sentence  – The green frog was happy. Why? using the word ‘because’
• ‘oo’ words, write, draw and put in a sentence

• Cauldron – make up a magic potion – using words and pictures
• Oral Language – using puppets to recreate the story OR play a game

PE

Science/Literacy – Information Text

Revisiting our learning from the Mudla.

Our task was to use our observations and research to construct an information text.

The children were encouraged to draw and label the creature they choose to research from the Mudla.

First the children drew a small picture of their creature which the children would then label.

We looked at the information text below for some ideas that we could transfer to our own page. For example a title and labels.

The children were then encouraged to write a sentence about their creature.

What words do we need for our labels:

Eyes              head

feet                 leg

shell              body

spiky back         neck

tail        mouth

toes        nose

ears        claw

Season Reflection

What do we wear in different season? why?

The children were asked to reflect upon why we wear different clothing at different times of the year. As a group we talked about wearing different items ‘because’. For example we wear a hat in summer to protect us from the sun.

The children were encouraged to write and draw their understandings.

Have a nice night – see you tomorrow

A snapshot of our learning today

Our shared text: Room on a broom

The witch and her cat are happily flying through the sky on a broomstick when the wind picks up and blows away the witch’s hat, then her bow, and then her wand!  Luckily, three helpful animals find the missing items, and all they want in return is a ride on the broom.  But is there room on the broom for so many friends?  And when disaster strikes, will they be able to save the witch from a hungry dragon?

This a fun story with wonderful rhyme and repetition.

One of the tasks today was exploring our shared text (Room on a broom) with our 100 languages of learning.

The children demonstrated

• Collaboration as they shared ideas, space and resources
• Persistence as they created all the characters that sat on the broom.
• Perseverance   as they drew the characters on activinspire
• Problem solving as they recreated the story
• Oral Languages as they retold the story using photo booth
• Independence as they directed their learning into engaging tasks.
• Leadership as they helped others
• Creativity as they came up with new ideas.
• Sense making as they put their ideas together.
• Fine motor coordination as they added details and cut out shapes.
• Curiosity as they explored new ideas.

It is wonderful to observe these learning dispositions flourish as the children develop essential life skills.

The children also displayed kindness, leadership and collaboration as we welcomed and engaged with the new reception children this morning during their 2nd transition visit.

Have a wonderful night and we will see you tomorrow.