Hello everyone and welcome to Week 7, a shorter week than normal due to the Queen’s Birthday holiday.

 

Congratulations  to our awesome readers

Congratulations Jordan on reaching 100 nights of reading.

Shared Reading 

The Dreadful Fluff by Aaron Blabey

 

 

English and phonics

This week the children are learning the ff and ll sounds.  In these lessons the children are asked to show their understanding by reading and writing the list words and drawing a picture next to each to show their comprehension of the words. The children are involved in an interactive writing session by co- constructing the sentences that they will also write in their own workbooks. Pencil grip and fine motor skills are being developed each time they write and draw.  When the children have completed the activity they are asked to read their words and sentences to the teacher. There are many proud little smiles once their task has been completed.  Well done everyone, we are very proud of you!

Maths

The children built their own cities today using Lego or blocks.  Here are some bird’s eye views and side views of the cities.

Listening to and following directions

The children listened to the teacher and drew a picture as she used instructions using positional language.

Religion and Pentecost

The children worked on colouring the symbols of Pentecost and made a decoration with each of the elements for our classroom prayer space.

Science

The children located materials from the classroom and sorted them into 4 groups.

 

Maths

The children continued to work on their adding skills and recording their sums. Each child uses 2 dot dice and counts the the dots to find the total amount. There are many busy little minds working hard at counting, reasoning and recording in a format that may range from the drawing of dots only or writing the numbers and using symbols. Here is an image of our class learning intention.

Book Making

Today the children started an author study on a the known Pamela Allen.  She has authored a multitude of books and has delighted millions of children with her lovely books. Today, Mrs Papillo read My Cat Maisie.

 

Ecology around the school

RMN and RMP are finding little ways to help out around the school. We are currently using a Smart Cara composter in our classroom that will turn our food scraps in to dried “compost” for use in our garden beds.

On Thursdays we go to the Mudla and also we have an opportunity to garden in front of our classroom. Today we turned over the soil, next week we plant!

Turning our food scraps to compost (Watch this space for the transformation)

 

Turtles – Jordan and Hendrix being brave holding the little turtle, they have sharp claws!

Max the big turtle – Did you know that Mrs Martin raised this turtle from when it was as big as a 50c coin! She named the turtle Max as she was told that the turtle was a boy. We’ve since found out that Max is a girl but the name has stuck! Max is now about 10 years old…

 

Cleaning up the garden beds, making sure not to dig up the lettuces!

HASS

Today the children listened to the story of The Three Little Birds, a traditional story from Guinea, Africa.

The students made the 3 little birds from the story.