Hello RCC families and children, welcome to our week 9 blog.

this week in English, children reviewed all the phonemes & graphemes regularly. They revised the heart words,  and wrote down. They read a new poem – The Fat Cat. They orally constructed three sentences from the book ‘Where is the green sheep’ together. Children continued to practice writing letters and their names. They also learned new way to add words in their stories – Onomatopoeia.

In Maths, children created a pictorial diary to show the important events that happen on the various days of the week. They also sequenced the events from a story in the order in which they occurred using language like, “This happened first” then “This happened next”. For Duration and sequencing, children ordered cards into which takes longest and less time and then in order of sequence to display their understanding regarding the concept.  They also used paper cuts of different lengths to order from shortest to longest and glued onto page.

In Health, children were introduced to the Power Concept.

They discussed and discovered what they believe power is. They also discussed about what is fair/unfair, reflecting on last week’s learning. They developed the understanding that if someone is being unfair that it means they are having power over another person. We revisited the unfair/fair cards. The discussion continued with “how was power used in a fair way?”, “how was power used in an unfair way?”, “what might a young person do if they felt power was being used in an unfair way?” Finally, we created a mind map as a class with a focus on the word ‘power’.

In Religion, we discussed about prayer. Students developed an understanding about prayer, what prayer is and why do we pray.

In HASS, children learned about some special events of Aboriginal people which they celebrate. They watched the ‘Dreaming Information’ on a power point presentation and then watched the dreaming story of ‘The Rainbow Serpent’.

In The Arts, the students were supported to develop story telling skills by sharing and reflecting on real-life experiences. They enhanced their ability to narrate stories by drawing from their own personal experiences.

In Science, children understood that sliding is a form of movement. They predicted what objects would slide down a playground slide and tested the theory.

Hello RCC families and children, welcome to week 8 blog!

In English,

Students reviewed all phonemes & graphemes, we used books,  flash cards, writing on board. They enjoyed reading the  poem – I Have a Little Frog! We revised heart words and created sentences together with the heart words. (interactive writing on board). Children practiced writing the letters and heart words on their white boards, creating words with a range of materials and resources, continued to write their books.

In Maths, we started our New unit – measurement . We compared Length, height, worked on sequencing events and duration with real life experiences and objects.

In Health, students developed the  understanding of what is fair/unfair. They also discriminated fair/unfair situations.

In Religion, students learned about varying components of religions. they talked about the importance of religion and how it helps us to make decisions and live a life that follows our religion, as God would want. They also learned about a range of different religions and must allow people to talk about their God freely.

In Arts, the students learned the five parts of a retell.

1. Who – characters/ key figures.
2. What – conflict/ key event.
3. Where – setting.
4. When – setting.
5. Why – resolution/motives

They chose to retell a part/scene of the story – The Three Little Pigs.

In Technologies, the students built a house from the story – The Three Little Pigs. They used a range of materials depending on the type of house they wanted to build.

In Science, the students investigated to understand that the material an object is made from, affects it movement.

Hello REB families, welcome to our week 8 Blog.

This week in English we:

-Continued with our literacy stations where we engage with materials to deepen our skills in identify initial sounds, letter recognition and writing, and constructing sentences

-focussed on spacing between words in our interactive writing session

-explored creative ways Authors add text to their books and gave this a go in our own books

-played a ‘guess the letter’ game, deepening pour rhyming and initial sound skills

This week in Maths we introduced our new Unit on measurement which involved:

-comparing length and height and collecting data in our classroom and wider school environment

-learnt about how we can measure time and focussed on sequencing events and duration or activities.

In technologies and arts we:

-made the finishing touches to our houses and used them to re-tell the story ‘The Three little Pigs’

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In Health we:

-discussed the concept of fair vs unfair and represented our thinking through drawings

Hello RCC families and children, welcome to week 7 blog.

This week, in English – Children reviewed and wrote uppercase and lower case letters on  white boards. They also learned to add words in various ways such as big and bold texts, fancy writing, speech and thinking bubbles in their story writing.

In Maths, students enthusiastically explored what and how information from the environment is collected and used by First Nations Australians to predict weather events. They sat by the  billabongs and wrote down their data. They listened with interest and and discussed about which season we are in. Then they illustrated what they can observe in this season.

They collected data from each other in RCC classroom to know about the most favourite colour of the students and counted up their data at the end. They also identified which colour has the most ticks and least and what that might mean.

In Health,

Students discussed and discovered who they trust the most. They also drew/wrote who they trust the most in their lives.

In Religion, students were introduced to various religions. They also drew cross, Jesus from their imagination and about various other religions.

In Science,

Students explored and developed an understanding that bouncing is a form of movement and depends on the material that the object is made from.

In Technology, the students continued to build a house from the story The Three Little Pigs, with different materials such as wooden blocks, lego.

Hello REB families, welcome to our week 7 blog!

this week in English we:

-continued our literacy rotations, focussing on our heart words and segmenting sounds

-deepened our syllabification skills, using instruments

-practiced writing all the letters we have learnt so far

-Wrote a sentence and tried our best to leave spaces between words and use a capital letter at the beginning and a full stop at the end

-discovered creative ways to add text to our books and gave this a go ourselves

In maths we:

-explored what and how information for from the environment is collected and used by First Nations Australians to predict the weather. We used these skills to collect and represent data about the weather.

In Health we:

-discussed what it feels like to trust someone and how it is important to know who we trust in our own lives. We shared our thinking through drawings depicting our own trust networks

In Design and technologies we:

-use our designs developed last week to make our own house for the 3 little pigs. We thought about what the houses would need to ensure the wolf can’t get in.

In Religion we:

-focussed on Catholic symbols and what they mean. We also shared symbols from other religions as they may have special meaning to each of us.

REMINDERS/ANNOUNCMENTS

-Just a reminder to name all belongings. We have a jacket box near the door which is filling up quite quickly. Please have a look in case something belongs to you.

-Library is back to normal next week (Tuesday)

Hello RCC families and children. Welcome to our week 6 blog!

This week, in English we continued book making. The students added words to tell their reader more. Children used big and bold and fancy writing as well as speech and thinking bubbles in their writing.

We have regularly revised phonemes and graphemes, used the letters to learn new words, and recorded them on the white board.

The students also learnt to edit their books when it is almost finished.

In Maths,  we learned about Data, a new unit. Children learned the importance of collecting and using data in our lives. They developed the understanding of creating T Chart and Picture graph. Children went on a walk around the school and came up with three things they wanted to count and record (example: benches, tables, birds, flowers etc). Then, they counted how many are in each data group and decided which one has the most and which one has the least.

In Health, the children learned about Bullying. They also discovered different forms of bullying.

In HASS, children illustrated different celebrations of their choice, efficiently incorporating several distinctive features such as attires, decorations, and food.

In Arts, the students learned to retell a part/scene of the story – The Three Little Pigs. They also learned about the five parts of a retell:

1. Who – characters/ key figures.
2. What – conflict/ key event.
3. Where – setting.
4. When – setting.
5. Why – resolution/motive.

In Technology, the students used the design (Created in week 5) to build a house.

In Science, Students to completed Summative Assessment: Movement of Things.

Hello REB Families, welcome to our week 6 Blog.

We were so lucky today to have our buddies come to share their robots with us. It was so inspiring to learn about the process of making the robots and we were very excited to have the opportunity to drive them.

This week in English we:

-participated in literacy rotations where we engaged with playful activities focussing on heart words, segmenting sounds and blending words

-built sentences together and wrote and illustrated them in our books

-revised the phonemes and graphemes we have learnt throughout the term

-applied our comprehension skills and re-told scenes from various books through writing and drawing

-Added words to our word wall

In Maths we:

-introduced a new unit on ‘data’

-we discussed how collecting data is useful in our lives and explored different ways to represent and summarise the data (in picture and T Graphs).

In Technologies we:

-Read the ‘Three Little Pigs’ and discussed how we could make a house to keep the pigs safe

-applied new understandings as we designed our own houses, taking into consideration materials and size.

In Science we:

-concluded our unit on movement and sorted items into the catgories of slide, roll and bounce

In Health we:

-discussed what Bullying is and how we can take action when we feel like It us occurring to ourselves or others. We represented out ideas through drawings.

In Hass we:

-documented (through drawings) celebrations that are important to us and our families. We shared our ideas with eachother and justifyied why these events are special to us.

Hello RCC families and children, welcome to our weekly blog. What an eventful week this has been! Reconciliation week, Mission week and assembly brought so much excitement to our school. The students were thrilled to take part and learn about these special events.

In our everyday English learning, we

• revised all the heart words learnt so far
  
• all graphemes/phonemes have been learnt
  
• Poem for the week was – Hey Diddle Diddle
• interactive writing on board: creating a sentence with the heart word
• revisited checklist of what makes a book finished.
  

In Maths,

The students learned about

Part, whole, add, addition, subtraction, equation, equals, number bonds etc.

In Health, the students learned – Language Safety , developed an understanding about what non-blaming language is. 

In Religion, the students gained knowledge about the history of Jesus’ miracles. 

We watched videos and discussed about different significant events in different cultures in HASS lesson. 

Mission Week

Hello RCC families and children. Welcome to our weekly blog!

This week was very special for us. RCC participated in the assembly on Friday. The students’ enthusiasm and excitement were clearly visible in their preparations all week.

In Literacy lessons, we continued to work on different heart words, the letters Y and J. Students continued to write their stories and adapted some writing/drawing techniques which were inspired by the author Mo Willems, such as motion lines, big and bold, speech bubbles.

In Numeracy, we worked on part-whole and operations. Students enjoyed learning about the big words such as part, whole, add, addition, subtraction, equation, equals, number bonds etc.

Religion: Catholic History 

Students worked on catholic history after they watched a video – God’s story – Jesus. 

Children loved to listen to the story ‘Bowerbird Blues” written by Aura Parker at the hall for National Simultaneus story time.

Today was a very special day for REB as we presented our first Assembly!

A lot of work and practice went into this special event and it was so beautiful seeing each child’s confidence on the stage. A very big thank thank you to our buddies from 6EB who not only helped us prepare for our assembly, but also ensured that that it all ran smoothly!

For those of you that weren’t able to attend, please find some photos captured:

Other special learning that took place this week: