Dear students and families, welcome back to Term 4! I hope you all had a wonderful break and are feeling ready for an exciting term ahead. This term we will embark on new adventures in our learning journey, exploring interesting topics and engaging in fun activities. Together, we will dive into  our lessons, work on projects, and continue to grow as learners.

In English, this week we learned –

• Poem: Daisy the Snail
• Heart Words: do, did, not
• Digraphs: /a/ (ai) & (ay)
• Blending Words (ai): tail, snail, rain, rail, pain, train, nail, main
• Blending Words (ay): play, pray, stay, may, way, day, say, spray
• Every day a lesson with a quick game of: rhyming, blending or initial/last sounds
• Reading

In Maths, we worked on learning about various items to compare (mass, capacity, length, height). We used paper strips, ribbon, pantry items, play materials, wooden blocks etc. Students were able to

– make connections to real life contexts

– learn topic specific language

– learn about direct comparisons

– make accurate comparisons

In Technology, students gained an understanding of what is meant by the term ‘structures’ by looking for them in our environment. They made different types of cylinders that all stand up.

In Science, we discussed about  what Science is and the role of Scientists.

Reminders

• Please ensure that your child brings a sun-safe hat for outdoor play during recess and lunch.
• Monday,  21st of October is a Pupil Free Day
• Reports will be emailed in week 9

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.

Reminder: Casual Day tomorrow, Friday 20/09/2024

Dress in football colours.

Please bring a brand new item to donate for hampers (ie. toiletries, kitchen, car, etc).

Splatacular Colour Run – Thursday 26th September.

There’s still time to win amazing prizes! Be sure to take the opportunity. Please follow the link below to complete your registration.

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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!

Set up Profile Page

-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

Dear RCC families and children, welcome to our weekly blog!

This week, in English

we learned Grapheme ‘ng’ and ‘wh’, and the spelling rule.

Children also practiced Blending and Segmenting the words with ‘ng’ and ‘wh’ in it- hang, wing, king, long, sing, thing, stung, string, strong, fishing, ending, when, whip, whisk, which, whizz, whips.

They practiced reading and writing all the heart words along with copying a sentence.

In reading workshop, the learners were engaged with a shared text, they used pointers to read.

It was ensured that the learners become familiar with text.

Intentional teaching focus during Shared reading:

• What is the title?
• Who are the characters?
• Do you like the story? -why
• Punctuation, capital letters
• Highlight – crafting techniques – for example speech bubbles, big and bold
• How does the story make you feel?
• What information is the book telling us?
• Predicting rhyme while reading.
• What happened in the story?
• Noticing the lay out of the book.

Phonological Awareness:

• Rhyme- singing and playing with nursery rhymes.
• Initial and end sounds
• Blending and segmenting
• Reviewed learnt letter names and sounds

In Bookmaking, children worked on organisation – Headings, titles. How are headings used in information books.

Page numbers – how this helps the reader to follow the book.

In Maths, we continued Part-Whole Operations. Children used ten frames, and different strategies to do addition, and subtraction.

In Health, we reviewed

• Identifying basic body parts and how every part of our body is important, and how it’s our job to take care of it.
• Understand the concept of personal boundaries and the body is private
• Demonstrating respect for others’ boundaries through discussions and activities.

In religion, we had Assessment – Understanding and Expressing a Bible Story through Artwork.

Hass: Drawing a birds eye view of log park that is accurate and names the features that already exist.

Design: Designing their own nature play area in log park and explaining their reasoning and design ideas.

Arts: Creating a 3D model from their 2D design of a re-imagined nature play area in log park.

Reminder to Students

As the weather is getting warmer, please remember to bring your hats to school. Wearing a hat will help protect you from the sun during outdoor activities, especially during recess and lunch. Let’s stay sun safe!

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

Dear families and children , welcome to our weekly blog !

What a fun filled week we had in our classroom!

In English, the children learned new digraphs -‘th’ and ‘ch’, they also read new books to gather information for writing their information books.

In Maths, we practiced addition and subtraction. we used number lines and number bond strategies to work out problems. We explored our outdoor environment to collect natural items to help with our number works.

In Health, we reviewed

1. Identifying different parts of the body.
2. Understanding the concept of personal boundaries and body safety
3. Recognizing safe and unsafe secrets and who to talk to when feeling uncomfortable.

In Religion, we learned about special celebrations in the Catholic faith, such as Christmas, Easter, and understand how the Bible helps us celebrate these events.

In HASS, the children created their drawing, a birds eye view of log park that is accurate and names the features that already exist.