Welcome to Week 2 everyone.  We have a wonderful week ahead and we hope this shows all of our amazing learners!

English and Phonics | letters v and y

Rumpus At the Vet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-c_M8iwBew

English | Word Study and Phonics

Reading

Congratulations Zachary on 50 nights of reading.

Health 

Shoes From Grandpa by Mem Fox

We used the book (above) to explore relationship circles. Relationship circles are used to explore people who are in a person’s life. Children used the relationship circle to help them identify different relationships in their lives and to establish people who they trust and who they can receive support from.

Maths

The children have been exploring shapes by naming and noticing them in the classroom and through the activities they have participated in.

Technology and paper folding (origami)

Today the children used paper and a great deal of persistence to make a paper fan.

Bookmaking

Students reading to each other showing all of the brilliant words that they have put in

Ecology

Students from RMN and RMP have begun preparing the garden beds outside the classroom for planting, watch this space.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Congratulations to Jordan P and Zachary for levelling up in their sight words. Jordan completed her Golden words and Zachary his Red, we’re so proud of all of the magnificent learning.

Drama and Dance 

Welcome to a brand new term and a new week.  We are very excited and eager to start all the wonderful learning with the children.

We encourage you to keep reading with your child at home as the children move into a new phase of learning the term.

English and Phonics

This week the children are learning and writing the letter sound w.

The children are also learning about sentences and using their letter sound knowledge to help them spell CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words. The children tried their skills at spelling cat and dog with a little nudge from the teacher.

Shared Reading

Here are a selection of books we have shared with the children this week.  You may have them at home or you can watch the stories below.

The Wonky Donkey went nicely with our letter w sound today!

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus had the children thinking about how they can add words to their books in their Book Making lessons. We discussed speech bubbles and big and bold writing.

Meg’s Car highlighted the use of speech bubbles and big and bold writing.

Home Reading

Congratulations to Jordan and Makai on 50 nights of reading. Great work, keep it up!

Religion

The children shared what they knew about ‘Church’ and described what it looks like. They then drew a picture of a building church.

Gabriella : is about God

Cedric: it is about getting blessed by Jesus

Manny: Church is a big tower

Lovenne: Church is all about learning about God

Jok: seeing God

Reyansh: about Jesus

Yom: where people talk about Jesus

Aiden: seeing God

Xander: God helps friends

Riley: Jesus is on a cross

Cyrus: Jesus helps everybody

Gabriella: there are lots of people there and it’s a good place to learn

Aiden: I saw Jesus, there were statues

Eliza: God lives on the cross

Jok: saw Jesus

Reyansh: I saw a statue of Jesus

Manny: 100 windows on the church tower

Charlotte: I’ve seen a statue and a window with a tower of a church

Maths 

The students have began exploring and investigating 2D shapes. They have been working on naming 2D shapes, drawing them and naming some features such as the corners and sides. They are creating a shapes book to share their understandings of 2D shapes.

Counting and number lines.  The children used their number lines to keep track of the numbers in a counting song.

Book Making

The children looked for how authors add words to their books and worked with a partner today to find speech bubbles, thinking bubbles and big and bold writing.

Friday Book Making

The children did an awesome job at adding words today.

English

Writing rhyming words and cvc words.

Our new term is about to begin and we can’t wait to see all of our friendly faces back in the classroom.  Mrs Papillo, Mrs Norris and Mrs Martin will be ready and waiting for you all on Tuesday, 3rd May at 8:50am.

Please remind your child to bring their Library Bag to school everyday with the normal contents within it: readers (3), picture books (2) and  sight word book.  Thank you for your cooperation.

Welcome to Week 11 everyone, we hope your week is happy and busy!

Congratulations to our wonderful readers this week…

Come Read With Me

English | Phonics | Handwriting

Health

We discussed what an emergency is and how to determine how big a problem is. Students reflected and recorded small, medium, and big problems.

Maths

The students have been focussing on sequencing. This week we looked at events that happen in our day. Students organised events in a day into morning, day and night.

English and Book Making

Today the children shared their books with a group of peers.  It was wonderful to see the children reading their books using their story telling voices.

Religion

This week we have been watching Holy Week presentations from all the classes in the school. Today we looked at Easter Sunday and the true meaning of Easter and the symbols associated with Easter. Students then chose one of the symbols of Easter and turned it into stained glass window artworks using oil pastels.

Play Investigations

We wish all families a very holy and happy Easter. 

Peace be with you all and we will see you next term!

Nexts term’s calendar is below:

Welcome to week 10 everyone and here is what we have been learning this week:

Calum celebrated his 5th birthday last week and here is Calum being wished a very happy birthday!

Art in Jackson Pollock style…

Last Friday the children loved the art activity planned by Mrs Martin.

Congratulations to Cedric, Riley, Mahtabjot and Aidan on achieving their 25 nights of reading award. Well done, keep it up!

English and phonics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV3R1xnDjuk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu5TL4CszuI

The children are learning the letters f and b this week.

The students also had fun creating frogs to reinforce the letter f and build on their fine motor skills.

Maths

The children have been learning to sing a days of the week song and recognise some of the words.  After reading one of our favourite’s. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, the children ordered the days and matched what the caterpillar ate on each day.

Maths Mini

The children created number flowers, showing the number and matching the petals.

Religion

The children have been preparing for Holy Week and Easter.  Today the children listened to how Jesus shared his last meal with his closest friends, the disciples. The children sequenced four main parts of the story into the correct order in preparation for our class to role play the story and present it to the whole school.

Health

This week we discussed trusted support networks, which is a group of people who they trust and can talk with if they have a problem. They are people who will listen to them, believe in them and will do something. It is also a group of people who they like to share good times with. Students thought about people who they could talk with when they get early warning signs.

Sport lesson with Mrs Cooymans

Each week the children participate in a specialist PE lesson with Mrs Cooymans. Today RMP were having a ball in the Hall.  Here a just a few photos from the end of the lesson.

Science and plants

The children visited the Mudla and Fish Farm today, observing the animals and plant life we have at HFCS. Upon returning to the classroom, the children discussed what plants need to live and they added more pictures and words to their plant diagram that was started last week.

Xander

Library

Book Making 

Art

The children used their fingerprints and ink to create some little critters.

Welcome to Week 9 everyone!

Congratulations to Emily, Jordan D and Makai on achieving their 25 nights of reading award. Well done, keep it up!

English | Phonics 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lmo5GZIWAw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUlTdCWNUN0

Handwriting

It is wonderful to see the children gaining a multitude of skills in this area. All of the children have gained better pencil grip (tripod grip), control of pencil and are forming letters with more accuracy. The lesson also gets the children thinking about words and objects that begin with the focus letter or as James said “The letter u is in the middle of the word sun.”

The children made a lady bug after learning the letter l sound.

Maths Mini

The children continue to learn their number formation and connecting numerals to amounts. The children in this group were adding two numbers and recording using the = sign.

Maths

The students have been exploring ten frames over the past couple of weeks. Today the children counted how many squares were coloured and how many were not!

The children used the laptops on Tuesday to build their counting skills and use the track pad to navigate the number game.

Technologies

The children used their cutting and folding skills this week to create a paper bag puppet and finger puppets, They had lots of fun in being creative.

Religion

Mrs Norris read the story about Palm Sunday. The time when Jesus rode a donkey into the city of Jerusalem and was welcomed as the King.

If I met a King I would…

Aidan:I would feel happy.

Yom: I would say good afternoon.

Imogen: I would be excited if I met a King!

The students reflected on the story and the reason why people waved Palm leaves, and laid cloaks along the road for Jesus, shouting words such as Hosanna! and Blessed is the King. The students then drew their representation of Palm Sunday.

Book Making

Lovenne made a book called All About My House.

Welcome to week 8 everyone and today is Harmony Day!  The children were very excited and it was lovely to see everyone celebrating the day.  Some children came in their school uniform, some in orange and some in traditional clothing indicating their individuality and belonging at the same time.

Here are some of the children showing their pictures about how they are different but belong to our wonderful classroom, school community and Australia.

Harmony Day lunch on the oval

English and phonics

The letters we are focusing on this week are g and o.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMcyHy1lRCM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIh9qOY22kM

Morning literacy activities

The children made octopuses for the letter o activity on Tuesday morning.

The children were asked to add 8 arms!

Maths and number 

English and Book making 

Science | Living things and plants

The children viewed and discussed what they find or cam see in a garden.  They drew their own gardens, considering the plants and animals that could possibly live in it.

Art

The children were inspired by the art of Kandinsky this afternoon.  Mrs Martin displayed their amazing efforts on the classroom wall.

Hi everyone,

Harmony Day is this Monday 21^st March. At Holy Family we always aim to foster inclusiveness, respect and the idea that people of all different cultures can make a valuable contribution to society. On Monday we will take time to celebrate the importance and value our cultural diversity at Holy Family and in general, Australia.

Below is a reminder of the whole school activities. 

• Students wear orange or cultural dress or casual clothes of choice (We will have ribbons and safety pins in the Think Tank available for those students who wear their school uniform and still want to support the day).

• A special canteen orange lunch – pumpkin soup, bread roll and orange for $5. A text message was sent out as a reminder to parents yesterday – the canteen will not be selling other lunch orders on this day. They will be open at recess and lunch per normal.

Thank you

Welcome to week 7 everyone and we hope you all had a lovely long weekend.

Reading at home…

A big thank you to all the parents out there for helping with reading at home.  Here are a few snaps of the children proudly showing their reading log books.

English and Phonics for week 7

Literacy activities

Maths

Patterning

Maths

This week the children have been investigating numbers. The intention has been  to explore what numbers are and how we count collections to find the total number.

Religion

Students listened to the parable of the Good Samaritan. The parable of the Good Samaritan explains that people should love everyone, including our enemies. Students illustrated a scenario at school showing how they can be a Good Samaritan.

Here are some photos from Friday’s Maths activity:

The children played games that develop number recognition and spatial awareness.

Science

RMP drew pictures of a guppy and can now tell which guppy looks like a girl and which looks like a boy guppy. The children checked out all the guppies in the class fish tank.

Wishing you all a restful and safe weekend. 

See you on Monday.

Welcome to week 6 everyone and here are some highlights from our week; please enjoy.

Shared Reading 

Here are a few of the stories we have shared this week with the class if you would like to share them again at home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FaRueaFPMk

At the end of each week the children revise the letter sounds and this week they wrote the letters r and h on their whiteboards.

English | Phonics

This week we are learning the letter sounds h and r.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCi5CpcmHWM

Students showed great resilience when creating origami houses in recognition of the letter h.

To reinforce the letter r students developed their fine motor skills and created shape robots. The robots are all different and amazing. Great work receptions.

Health and Safety 

Today we explored what safe and unsafe means and explored different scenarios that can make us feel certain ways.

We read the story ‘Franklin in the Dark’ and talked about some ways the characters made themselves feel safe.

Students then had the opportunity to draw and share when they feel safe.

Play Investigations

Maths and patterns

Maths mini

The children are developing their number writing formation and matching the numbers to amounts when using a dice.

Technologies 

The students used pipe cleaners today to practise and demonstrate their fine motor skills of twisting, turning and weaving pipe cleaners to create an object that they had planned. There were ice creams, bees, people and all kinds of wondrous things.

Have  great long weekend!