Good evening Parents and Caregivers,
This Friday the Reception classes will be part of a mini – festival of fun!! Nature Play SA is visiting our school and will be conducting some great activities with the children.
Due to the incursion being held outdoors for 90 minutes we ask that your child attends school in their Sports uniform and hat on Friday 2nd December.
Thank you in advance,
Margot, Mai and Mel.
Welcome to week 6.
Happy Birthday to Cedric, Hendrix and Mahtabjot
Reading milestones
English | Phonics, handwriting and word study.
Phoneme ff
Mrs Norris read the story Giraffes Can’t Dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQMDaPRhA0I
Phoneme ll
Maths – subitising
The students have continued to consolidate their subtilising skills.
Technologies
This week the students enjoyed using their plans and designs to make their Christmas floats. They can’t wait to have a parade next week showing all their creativity, team work and hard work.
Welcome to our week of wonderful learning!
Happy Birthday to Jok who turned 6 years old!!
English | Phonics, handwriting and word study
Monday’s activity: Words with at in them.
Tuesday’s activity: Words with ng in them
Keeping Safe
Today the children revised their Trust Networks.
Maths
Today we worked on our subitising skills. Some children worked with a partner and played a board game by matching the dots and others worked in pairs on subitising dots and objects.
Subitising – looking at dot patterns for a short period of time. You might like to try this at home.
The children played subitising games.
Design and Technology
The children worked in small groups to share their ideas and design a Christmas Pageant float.
English and Rhyme Time
Today we read the book Tabby McTat and looked for rhyming words.
HASS and Toys (old and new)
The children played with some ‘old’ toys (and many that Mrs Martin brought from her home.)
Book making
Here are some page samples from our books, composed by our reception students.
A page from Vanessa’s book about a family holiday.
A page from Antonio’s book called Jordan D’s Birthday.
A page from Lovenne’s book.
Welcome to Week 4 everyone.
Happy 6th Birthday to Xander!
Well done to James for reaching 100 nights of reading!
English | Phonics and word study | sh and th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNtDhtnjPgA
English | Phonics, word study and handwriting
Maths
This week the children are investigating Australian money.
Design and Technology
The children constructed their robots today based on last week’s designs.
Book making in our classroom on Wednesday
The children each shared a page from their book today.
Maths and shopping.
Religion – Advent Wreaths
Advent is the time before Christmas. It begins four Sundays before Christmas Day and ends on Christmas Day. The Advent wreath is made from leaves which are twisted to form a circle. Candles are put into the wreath. A candle is lit each Sunday before Christmas Day. Students explored what each candle represented and then they created their own wreaths.
Friday morning Rhyme Time
This morning we read another story by Julia Donaldson called The Snail and the Whale and listened for the rhyming words.
The Catholic tradition of celebrating All Saints Day.
All Saints’ Day is a solemn holy day of the Catholic Church celebrated annually on November 1. The day is dedicated to the saints of the Church, that is, all those who have attained heaven. It should not be confused with All Souls’ Day, which is observed on November 2, and is dedicated to those who have died and not yet reached heaven.
Although millions, or even billions of people may already be saints, All Saints’ Day observances tend to focus on known saints –that is those recognized in the canon of the saints by the Catholic Church.
All Saints’ Day is also commemorated by members of the Eastern Orthodox Church as well as some protestant churches, such as Lutheran and Anglican churches.
COME READ WITH ME
English | Handwriting, Phonics and Word Study
This week the children are revisiting the digraphs and sounds ch and qu. The children have been asked to look for words in their readers that contain these sounds.
Mrs Norris read the book The Chilli Challenge.
Mrs Norris read the book The Very Quiet Cricket.
Health
Today the children made their own phones and learnt about the emergency phone number 000 and the school phone number.
Maths
The children searched for, identified, described and drew some of the patterns in the school environment today.
The next day the children made patterns using materials from the classroom.
Design and Technology
The children designed a robot today. They labelled it, showing what materials they will need to make it.
Book Making
The children are making books with the intention to write a story from their life.
Religion
Advent was the topic of conversation today and what it feels like to wait for something you are really looking forward to. We viewed a story about Mary waiting to give birth to baby Jesus.
Maths and Patterns
On Wednesday the children created movement patterns using stomps, claps, twirls, hops and so on.
Next, the children discussed the rangoli designs. Their aim was to look carefully at the shapes and colour them in repeating colours.
Maths Mini – domino more or less game.
HASS – My special place and how we look after it.
Art in the sunshine!
