We have had many celebrations this week namely, Feast of St Joseph, World Down Syndrome Day and Harmony Day. St Joseph was a wonderful, patient man who was the earthly Father of Jesus and the loving husband of Mary. Many children wore their colourful odd socks for World Down Syndrome Day to raise awareness. Chromosomes are shaped like socks, so people wear colourful mismatched socks to support such a great cause. Harmony Week 2024’s theme is ‘Everyone Belongs’. It’s a celebration that recognises and embraces the country’s cultural diversity. It coincides with the United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Next week is Holy Week (the week leading up to Easter). Our class, together with 2NP will be hosting. The liturgy will be held on Thursday 28th March at 9am in the Hall. Families are invited to attend.
We spent time this week with our buddy class 5KH to decorate paper palm leaves to display on our classroom door for Palm Sunday. All classroom doors will have a similar display and families will be able to view these next Monday.
In Literacy, we have continued our work in Bookmaking focusing on our Illustration Study. In phonology, we are continuing to review our previous graphemes/phonemes taught and using these letters to blend sounds to make words. Our phonological awareness focus this week is on matching and producing rhyming words and identifying first sounds in familiar words.
In Numeracy, we have explored spotting shapes in familiar objects both inside and outside the classroom. The children are starting to create pictures using shapes and they enjoyed the ‘shape stations’ which encouraged them to create different shapes and think about each shape’s properties.
In Religion, we sang songs about Jesus and God to help us learn to pray and celebrate. We have also started looking at ‘The Last Supper’ story in preparation for our liturgy next week.
In Science, we have continued to look after our grass seed plans and discuss the different things that plants need to survive. Our key questions include; what makes a plant living, what do plants need to survive? And how can we care for plants?
In Technology, the children are continuing to familarise themselves with the different software on an IPAD (draw and tell, quick math jr and letter write).
In Art, we created a collaborative Harmony Day poster using children’s handprints. We used paint for children to create their handprint and we displayed all our individual handprints on one piece of card to unite us all and promote the message that ‘Everyone Belongs’.
We explored Harmony Day during HASS and discussed the many different cultures which make up our beautiful world. The message that ‘Everyone Belongs’ is reinforced with the importance of inclusiveness to all Australians.
In Health, we continued our work around safe/unsafe behaviours with a focus on risk taking. We walked around the school yard to explore what my constitute an unsafe situation versus a risky one.
