Dear Families,

Our Sports Day will be held next Wednesday (9th April). Please note that receptions will be taking part in events between 9-11am, which you are welcome to attend.

Please find further information about our day below.

SPORTS DAY PROGRAM

Click here if you are unsure which house your child is in:

SPORTS DAY HOUSES

SPORTS-DAY-HOUSES – RFL

Hello REB Families, welcome to our week 9 Blog.

This week in English we:

-Focused on the letter/sound ‘t’ in InitiaLit

-practiced breaking up words into parts (segmenting)

-played rhyme/initial sound games

-put sounds together to make words (blending)

-Focussed on the book ‘Cinderella’ in our storybook sessions.

This week in Maths we started a new unit on Patterns. We discussed what is a pattern is and engaged with hands on inquiry making patterns of our own.

This week in Science we collected data on the growth of our bean plants. We share our noticings together and discussed why some plants haven’t grown.

This week in HASS we discussed how we are all unique and created identity maps. This involved drawing some of our likes and dislikes.

INFORMATION/REMINDER

-Market day is this Wednesday. Students are invited to purchase items from our year 5/6 students stalls (ranging from $1-$10).

-Sports Day is the follow Wednesday (9th April). More information to come.

Hello REB Families, welcome to our week 8 blog.

This week in English we:

-Focused on the letter/sound ‘s’ in InitiaLit. We practiced writing the letter s and discovered many words that begin with its sound

-Revised the letter M

-engaged with segmenting and blending games

-focused on setting and backgrounds in bo0kmaking. We discovered ways to show the weather/ time of day and gave this a go in our own books.

This week in Maths we continued our unit on shapes. We engaged with rotations where we made shapes and identified shapes by their attributes.

Reminders/Notices

-if you are not seeing photos of your child on the blog, they do not have photo permission. Please let me know if you would like this changed.

-SPORTS DAY will be on the 9th April. There will be more information coming soon.

Hello REB Families, welcome to our week 7 blog.

This week in English we:

-introduced the letter ‘M’ and explored the sound it makes. We discovered words that start with this sound together and practiced writing it.

-revised onset and rime, rhyme and syllable in Initialit

-Used the text ‘Thunderstorm dancing’ in our story book lessons.

-explored more authors that include crafting devices (such as movement lines and emotions). We continued to add these devices to our own books as we edited them

In Maths we introduced a new unit on Shape. We discussed what a shape is and practiced the the skill of categorising objects based on their attributes.

In Science we looked at the data (photos) collected at the MUDLA in previous weeks and used this to document a living being and its needs for survival.

Hello REB Families, welcome to our week 6 blog.

This week in English we:

-revised syllables and rhyme through initalit activities and learnt about ‘Onset & Rime’

-Read ‘Bogtrotter’ and engaged with activities based on the text

-participated in a variety of writing experiences, including letter formation, name writing and writing headings on our work

-Introduced a new spotlight for our book making.. ‘Illustrations’. We looked at how authors use movement lines to show that characters are moving. We gave this a go in our own books.

In Maths this week we introduced a new unit on ‘equal sharing. We had many discussions around what ‘equal’ means and practiced sharing objects equally through many hands on investigations.

This week in science we practiced the skills of observing, documenting and summarising as we drew and labelled our bean plants.

In Religion we held a class liturgy, where we learnt about Lent and received ashes.

In Health we learnt about ‘body signals’ and how different parts of our body can feel different, when we are feeling different emotions.

Reminders/Announcements

Parent/Teacher Interviews: Bookings for interviews are now open. If you are unable to make this in person, feel free to request a phone call.

Hello REB Families, welcome to our week 5 blog.

This week in English we:

-focused on rhyme and syllabification in our InitiaLit sessions

-engaged with the text ‘Grandpa and Thomas’ in our story book lessons

-finished our current books in bookmaking and read them to each other

-continued deepening our fine-motor skills and letter formation in handwriting activities.

This week in Maths we focused on subitising where we:

-participated in partner and class games

-made number books, representing numbers and quantities.

This week in science we were very excited to see our beans had begun to grow. We shared our observations verbally and through drawings in our bean diaries and made predictions as to what will happen next. We also visited the MUDLA, focussing on the different needs of the living beings and reading ‘Gus’ Written by Mr McArthy.

In HASS we engaged in discussions around how things change over time and looked at a variety of pictures of things from the past vs the present.

In Health we demonstrated our understanding of what are safe vs unsafe actions.

Announcements/Reminders

-Please note that if your child is not featured in the Blog it is because they do not have permission. Please let me know if you would like this to be changed.

Hello REB Families, welcome to our week 4 blog.

This week we have welcomed Claudia Pisani to REB on Fridays. REB students have Miss Pisani as their PE teacher on Tuesdays and seemed thrilled that they would be learning with her now on Fridays too.

This week in English we:

-continued with our bookmaking, making sure that we had followed all the steps to finish our books

-focused on words and rhyming in our InitaLit sessions

-focused on the book ‘How to catch a Star’ in our story book sessions

This week in Maths we focused on number positioning and engaged in lots of number line activities.

This week in science we planted our beans. We discussed what our beans will need to survive and documented our observations in our Bean Diaries.

Hello REB Families, welcome to our week 3 Blog!

This week in English we:

-Continued to strengthen our writing muscles in a variety of writing and drawing tasks

-Focused on the story ‘The Very Hungry Bear in our Story book lessons. This eventuated to making homes for animals.

-engaged in literacy rotations and rhyme games

-read lots of books together and independently. We are learning that we can read simply by making meaning through illustrations

-continued with our bookmaking, focusing on sticking to a topic and consistent characters

This week in Maths we focused on conservation. We:

-made pasta plates and used STEM sentences to explain how many we had

-Read the text ‘One Fish, Two Fish’ by Dr Sues and made our own numbered fish bowl

-used subsisting strategies to play a dice game

-applied counting strategies, numeral writing and cardinality to complete the ‘flip it’ task

This week in Health we discussed how feelings are normal and ok and how we can work through them. We used role-play to talk through scenarios and then shared our ideas through drawings.

This week in Science we began crafting our ‘bean diaries’ We discussed the life cycle of plants and what they need to survive, We are very much looking forward to planting our own beans next week.

REMINDERS/ANNOUNCEMENTS

-If you were unable to attend the information night, the documents shared are on last weeks blog

-Library is on Monday, please bring in your child’s library bag on this day. They will be borrowing readers from this week (5 books in total)

-A slight change in our morning routine: From this week, we will be starting morning reading or a writing task on arrival. Our morning group time will be starting at 9:10.

Hello REB Families, welcome to our week 2 blog.

We have had another amazing week together and it is very evident that students are adjusting to and understanding our routines and forming relationships within our community.

This week in English we:

-continued with bookmaking, focusing on adding text to pages and completing our front covers

-played Rhyme and syllabification games

-participated in literacy rotations, exploring the shape of letters

-continue to engage in name writing and building activities

-completed a comprehension task from the book ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’

This week in Maths we:

-learnt about and practiced counting strategies

-participated in numeracy rotations where we practiced writing numerals, created number lines and counted collections

-made a number-line caterpillar

This week in Science/Technologies we:

-Spent time in the MUDLA, taking our own photos of living beings that we found. We even had the opportunity to touch/hold the Bearded Dragon!

This week in HASS we:

-discussed how families can be different and similar and shared who are in our families. We then represented this through drawings

Other Learning this week:

Religion: Who is Jesus?

Health: Safe Choices

Arts: Water painting

Notices/Reminders

-Our Parent information night will be held next Monday at 6pm. Don’t worry if you can’t make it, all information/power point slides are attached below.

Parent Information

Reception-Term-1-Overview

Parent-Carer Information

Dear Families,

It has been so lovely meeting you and your wonderful children throughout the week and I look forward to getting to know each of you more over the next few weeks.

We have had such an amazing start to our year and have spent lots of time connecting with and learning about each other through group games and playful inquiry.Each child has shown so much resilience in adjusting to our school routine and expectations.

Some experiences this week included:

-Rainbow names craft

-creating locker tags

-Self-Portraits

-syllabification games

-letter games and number games and songs

-Bookmaking

-A nature walk, searching for living-beings.

Some Notices and Reminders:

• Library is on Monday. Please Return library bags each Monday Morning.
• P.E is on Tuesday. Please ensure your child is dressed in their sports uniform
• Spanish is on Tuesday and Music is on Thursday.
• Please find the ‘Information Letter’ and ‘About me’ documents below, which were emailed last week.
•   Welcome Letter
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