Dear Families,

Welcome back to term 2. I hope you managed to spend some quality time with your family over the Easter break.

We have wasted no time in re-connecting with each other and diving straight into our learning.

The outline for this term is as follows:

English

Students read, view and comprehend texts. They identify the language features of texts including connections between print and images. They name the letters of the English alphabet and know and use the most common sounds (phonemes) represented by these letters (graphs). They read words including consonant–vowel–consonant words and some high-frequency words.

Mathematics

Number

Students compare the size of collections to at least 20. They partition and combine collections up to 10 in different ways, representing these with numbers. Students represent practical situations that involve quantifying, equal sharing, adding to and taking away from collections.

Measurement

Students identify the attributes of mass, capacity, length and duration, and use direct comparison strategies to compare objects and events.

HASS

Students recognise the features of familiar places, why some places are special to people and the ways they can care for them.

Science

They identify factors that influence the movement of objects.Students pose questions and make predictions based on their experiences.

Technologies

They create a designed solution for a school-selected context. Students create, communicate and choose design ideas. They follow steps and use materials and equipment to safely make a designed solution.

Arts

Students use play, imagination, arts knowledge, processes and/or skills to create and share arts works in different forms.

NOTICES/REMINDERS

Reading Diaries: Can be kept in children’s bags. These are optional and used as a way to encourage students to read regularly and reflect on the books that they read. You will be notified when to start the focus words at the back of the book.

Hello REB Families,

Please find a quick video of the fun we shared together at sports day this week.

Wishing you all a wonderful and safe Easter! I look forward to seeing you all next term.

Take care,

Elle

https://youtu.be/mCBqj6paqgY

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.