Hello REB Families, welcome to our week 4 blog.

Please note the following reminders/announcements:

-BOOK WEEK: week 5 (this coming week) is book week. We invite students to dress up as their favourite book character. A book week parade/assembly will take place on Thursday from 2:10pm.

-PUPIL FREE DAY: No school this Friday (22nd August)

-ASSEMBLY: REB will be hosting assembly with our yr 6 buddy class in week 6 (29th August 2025)

-MATERNITY LEAVE:  From week 7 Mrs Foster will be teaching Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Miss Pisani will be teaching Thursday and Friday.

Hello REB Families, welcome to our week 2 Blog.

This week in English we:

-focused on the our new letter/sound ‘b’. We used this sound to build and write words.

-participated in independent writing, where we wrote sentence independently, ensuring we had capital letters, full stops and spaces between words.

-learnt new tricky words ‘her’ and ‘his’

-read decodable books in our literacy groups

-read the poem ‘Beehive’ in our shared reading sessions

-learnt about/created diagrams for our information books.

This week in Maths we:

-created number lines (0-20)

-played games looking at what is 1 more than and one less than

-discovered patterns in 100 charts.

This week HASS/Art & technologies we began our artist study on ‘Jimmy Pike’ an Aboriginal artist. We researched the land that Jimmy Pike came from and learnt the significance of land and nature to Aboriginal people. We used Jimmy Pike’s work to inspire our self portraits.

TRY AT HOME:

-SET 1-5 tricky words in home reading diary. Read and write words.

-find things that start with the sound ‘b’

-can you sound out and write the words ‘bat’  ‘bop’  ‘bit’

Welcome back to Term 3!

This week in English we:

-focused on the letters/sounds ‘u’ and ‘k’, using these sounds in our reading and writing.

-became Brave Spellers. Doing ‘brave spelling’ will be a big focus this term. Students are encouraged to stretch out the word they are wanting to write and use their letter/sound knowledge and tricky words to write sentence. We are also adding capital letters and full stops to our sentences

-began writing our information texts.

-read decodable readers that feature our learnt sounds and tricky words

In maths we are revising numbers 0-20 (with a challenge to 100). We participated in group investigations and applied our knowledge to create number lines.

TRY AT HOME

-read and write the new tricky words ‘has’ and ‘were’ and say sentences with these words

-ask your child what words start with the sounds ‘u’ and ‘k’

-write and read the words  ‘kip’ ‘kid’  ‘kit’ ‘up’ ‘rug’ ‘tug’

Hello REB Families, welcome to our week 9 blog.

This week in English we:

-engaged with activities with a focus on the letter/sound ‘g’

-discussed what is a capital letter? and when do we use them?

-introduced the new tricky words ‘said’ and ‘you’.

-used the sounds and tricky words learnt so far to create sentences.

-played bingo bus in our literacy groups

This week in Maths we learnt about duration and how it measures time.

Some photos from Mission day…..

TRY AT HOME:

-reading/writing tricky words: they, that, said, are

-say a sentence with tricky words: they, that, said, are

-find/say some things that say start with the sound ‘g’

-ask your child to stretch out the sounds in the words: get    gap   fig   pig   (Challenge…write these words)

Hello REB families, welcome to our blog.

This week was very full with school events and activities for Mission Week. Thank you so much to the families that donated some food, which we learnt will be donated to people less fortunate than us.

This week in English we have:

-engaged with activities based on the letter/sound ‘e’

-focused on writing and reading sentences using the sounds and tricky words we have learnt so far

-introduced the tricky words ‘they’ and ‘that’

-participated in reading groups using decodable readers and our sounds and words books

This week in Maths we focused on measuring Mass. We engaged iwth lots of hands on investigations applying the skill of hefting and making comparisons between objects.

Throughout the term in Design and Technologies and art, we have been designing an oudoor courtyard. We were very proud to finish our Dioramas this week and share them with Mr Platten.

Try at home:

-Read and write set 1 and set 2 Tricky words (last page of home diary)

-what can you find that starts with sound ‘e’?

-can you tell me/write the sounds in   the words  ‘pet’.    ‘fed’     ‘hen’

Dear Families,

We will be participating in a variety 0f Mission Week activities next week, including our Mission Day markets. We are seeking some donations, with all proceeds going to charity. Please find more information below.

Some learning in Maths:

We begin our new unit on. measurement, so far focusing on length and capacity. We have participated in lots of class investigations, applying new topic specific language such as ‘longer, shorter’ and ‘holds more, holds less’.

Some learning in English:

-We have learnt about the letter h and the sound that is makes.

-We have begun writing and reading sentences

-Introduction of more tricky words.

Try at home:

-what starts with the sound ‘h’

-can you write the letter h? (You can look up letter school in youtube)

-what sounds are in the words:    cat,  hot, tip, tap, mat? can you say and write them?

Hello REB Families, welcome to our week 5 blog.

This week in English we:

-listened to words and identified/wrote their initial sounds

-used our knowledge of the letter sounds we have learnt so far to build and write words.

-focused on the letter and sound ‘c’ in initialit.

-engaged with story ‘Magic Beach’ in our story book lessons

-explored how Mo Willams uses Big and Bold writing to show big emotions

-began learning ‘tricky words’ (sight words). Including:  ‘the’ ‘I’  ‘my’ ‘a’  ‘is’

This week in Maths we continued learning about part part whole operations through hands on investigations.

We have been put lots of time and effort into our assembly preparations over the last couple of weeks.

TRY AT HOME

-What can you see that starts with the sound ‘c’/’k’

-can you write the letters: c, o , f , r, i, s, p, a,t?

-can you build/write and words with the above sounds?

-Read the SET 1 tricky words with your child (back of the home reading diary)

Hello REB Families, welcome to our week 3 Blog.

This week in English we:

-Focused on the letter/sound ‘o’ and discovered that it appears in the middle of lots of words

-engaged with the text ‘My Two Blankets’ in our Story book lessons

-added some crafting techniques to our texts  (speech bubbles and big and bold writing) like Mo Willams

-challenged ourselves in our handwriting sessions, using the sounds we have learnt to write words

This week in Maths we began our unit of ‘part-part whole’ operations. We worked with different materials throughout the week to discover the different ways that we can portion 10.

This week in Health we discussed ways that we show kindness to others

This week in Design and Technologies we continued being Engineers and began designing a solution/plan to make our outdoor courtyard more purposeful and inviting

NOTICES/REMINDERS

-REB & RFL will be presenting assembly next Friday at 2pm

TRY AT HOME

-Air Writing: watch ‘Letter School’ on youtube (Letters f, i , r , o) after watching children can write the letters.

-sound out words with the ‘o’ in the middle. For example: pop,  top,  cop,  bop,   sop. Ask your child where the sound ‘o’ is.

Hello REB Families, welcome to our week 2 Blog

This week in English we:

-focused on the letter/sound ‘f’ and ‘r’

-used our skills in letter/sound recognition to read and spell cvc words (such as mat, fat, fit, tap, tip, mit)

-Begun our spotlight study on the author ‘Mo Willams’ and revised what makes a book finished.

-engaged with the book ‘Super Worm’ in our story book lessons.

This week in Maths we concluded our unit on Teen Numbers. We applied our number knowledge to participate in Maths Rotations and complete Number Mats.

In Design and Arts we learnt about what engineers and how they design solutions for problems. We became engineers ourselves when we had to design a bridge for the 3 Billy Goats to make it safely home.

TRY AT HOME

– Ask your child: what can you find that starts with the sounds……. f   ,  r   ,  a   , p   ,  m , s  ,  t .            (You can write down these sounds and show them or simply say say the sound)

REMINDERS/NOTICES

– REB and RFL will be hosting Assembly in week 4 (Friday 23rd May)