Dear Families,

We would like to take this opportunity to reflect on the amazing year we have shared together. Watching each of your children blossom throughout this year, not only academically but also as confident, brave and respectful people has been so special to us. We thank you for the trust that you have given us in teaching your children and wish you all a safe and happy holiday period shared with loved ones.

We spent our last day celebrating a fantastic year of reception together which involved lots of  laughter and dancing!

With Love,

Farah and Elle

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Hello REB Families, welcome to our week 6 Blog.

This week in English we:

-revised the diagraphs ‘ee’ ‘oi’ ‘oy’ ‘ay’ and ‘ai’. We used these sounds to build words together

-Read ‘Grandpa Grandpa’ in shared reading

-Finished off our surprise for our families. (Please keep any eye out on your letter boxes next week)

-engaged with word building rotations

This week in Maths we introduced our new unit on positioning where we:

-learnt lots of words to describe the position of ourselves and objects

-worked together to make pictorial maps, to use with beebots next week

This week in HASS we were very fortunate to have a special visitor- Trent Hill who is a is an Indigenous storyteller, educator and guide who has worked at Adelaide Botanic Garden for more than 10 years. . Trent shared traditional artefacts with us and even played some cultural music. We documented our new discoveries through drawings.

Dear Families,

This week in English we:

-engaged with word investigations with the focus on heart words: back, all, make, made and look

-read ‘Monster’s Party’ in shared ready

-learnt about prefixes and suffixes

-made our own rhyming book, influenced by Dr Suess

-Focused on the front cover of cards and began making Christmas cards for our loved ones.

-worked in groups for word building rotations

This week in Maths we:

-finished up our unit on measurement, focusing on duration and sequencing

In HASS we:

-Read ‘Billy Goats Gruff’ and designed and made a bridge that was free standing.

In Science we: continued our weather journals. We have noticed that the weather has been very unpredictable lately and have discovered that it can rain even when it’s hot!

In Religion we: discussed what makes Jesus special and how we can use his teachings in our daily life.

In Health we: learnt that it is ok to say no to people sometimes and acted out different scenarios where the word no could be used.

Hello REB families, welcome to our week 3 Blog.

A highlight this week was celebrating Diwali and participating in a Diwali workshop hosted by Miss Mounika.

This week in English we:

-discovered that the diagraphs ‘ee’ and ‘ea’ make the same sound

-worked with partners to piece together poem ‘Beehive’

-used our heart words ‘or’ ‘see’ and ‘saw’ to make and then write sentences

-practiced the process of ‘partner check’ when we finish our books.

-Read ‘The Jigaree’ together in shared reading

In Maths we measured and compared objects based on their Mass

In HASS we read the book ‘Welcome to Country’ and considered why land is so important and special to Indigenous Australians. We represented our thinking through drawings.

In Science we did our first entry in our weather journals. We all agreed that some key words to describe the weather on Tuesday were ‘Sunny’ and ‘warm’.

Hello REB Families, welcome to our week 2 Blog.

This week in English we:

-learnt the heart words day, play and from and constructed sentence using them

-engaged in word investigations with the focus on diagraphs ‘oi’ and ‘oy’

-used sound boards to build CVC words

-read the poem ‘The Coin’ in shared reading

-looked at ways to enhance and edit to our books and gave this a go in bookmaking

In Maths we focused on measuring and comparing the height of objects. This involved:

-comparing produce in the vegetable garden

-working in partners to build the tallest tower

-group investigations and sorting

In Science we discovered that we are scientist when we observe weather. We created our own weather journals which will be produced throughout the term.

In Religion we discussed how prayer can be when we want to share gratitude for something in our life. We prayed in gratitude for our natural world and used this as our inspiration for our paintings.

Dear God,   

Thank you for the trees, the flowers, and the skies so blue.   

Thank you for the animals, and the rivers that flow too.   

Help us to care for nature, to keep it clean and bright,   

So all your gifts can grow and shine, and fill our hearts with light.   

Amen.

In Health we re-visited the meaning of ‘trust’ and discussed the importance of having people in our life who we trust. We then drew our own trust networks.

REMINDERS/UPDATES

-Take home packs have been updated with some try at home work

-Hats are required for the remainder of the year.

Hello REB Families, Welcome back to our final term of the year together.

Just a couple of reminders:

-The Spring Fair is this weekend. Many stalls are accepting cash only and there will not be an ATM available

-Next Monday is a Pupil Free Day

-Reports will be emailed in week 9

This week in English we:

-Revisited Diagraphs learnt last term and investigated the digaraphs ‘ai’ and ‘ay’

-learnt about our new bookmaking spotlight ‘Stories from our lives’ and began crafting books based on our own personal experiences

-Focused on the heart words ‘do’ ‘did’ and ‘not’ and constructed sentence using them.

-read the poem ‘Abby Cat’ in our shared reading

-Learnt about CVC words and used sound graphs to build words together

This week in Maths we began our new unit on measurement where we:

-compared the length of various objects

-applied topic specific language such as ‘longer’ and ‘shorter’ rather than just big and small.

-collected data in our wider environment and shared our findings with each other

This week in science we wondered ‘What is a scientist?’. We discovered that they do more than mix potions and learnt about the concept of inventions.

In HASS we focused on First Nations Australians and considered what is important to them and why.

Dear Families.

The colour run was such a perfect way to end our term together. It was full of laughter, excitement and lots of energy!

As we draw a close to term 3, I would like to wish you all a safe and happy holiday period.

I look forward to another term filled with learning, fun and new discoveries in term 4!

Elle

Dear Families,

This Thursday is our Colour run.

Students are invited to wear causal clothes with a light coloured/white T shirt.

Please be mindful that the clothes and shoes will get messy.

Dear Families,

it is very hard to believe that we have almost reached the end of another term.

A couple of important events to take note:

-CASUAL DRESS DAY: Wear your footy colours tomorrow and please bring in donation of Bring a brand-new item to donate for hampers (eg. toiletries, kitchen, car, etc).

-COLOUR RUN: next Thursday. If you haven’t already, please consider registering your child (link below) for the chance to receive a prize!

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-LAST DAY OF TERM: next Thursday

This week in Maths it was all about shapes! we identified, compared and constructed various 2d shapes.

This week in English we:

-revised all the digraphs learnt so far this term

-produced some final edits for our books in bookmaking

-practiced using descriptive language and drew monsters using descriptive clues.

-engaged with interactive and independent writing

Hello Families and welcome to our week 8 Blog.

The Moon Lantern festival was our Speck of Gold this week.

In Maths we finished our unit on Part Whole Operations.

In English we focused on the digraphs ‘ng’ and ‘wh’ and engaged with bookmaking and writing workshop.

In science we experimented with materials that have magnetic properties