Fun Friday – Week 5 – Term 1

Welcome to a fun Friday.

Snap shot of learning – following a sequence…

Following a sequence of dance steps

After assembly we had fun trying the ‘Macarena’ dance. We saw the dance up on the stage and many of the children were keen to have a try.  I wonder if you can have a go at home over the weekend.

Then we followed a paper folding sequence of steps to make a bug.

Questions to ask your child about their day:

What did you see on the stage at assembly?

Where did you play at recess?

Who did you play with during play investigations?

Did you build something during play investigations? What was it?

Tell me about your pattern you made during numeracy?

Can you sing me a song that you sung at the end of the day?

Find a small ball and show your parents the ball skills we were doing at the end of the day.

A few more snapshot of learning pictures:

Have a wonderful weekend.

See you on Monday

Michelle and Paul.

Thursday, Term 1, Week 5

Welcome to Thursday:

Snapshot of Learning:

Numeracy- Today we explored patterns and used objects in the classroom to make our own repeating patterns. We started with a group activity making a girl and boy pattern and then moved onto making our own patterns.

Technologies- Today we continued our work on puppets. The students made their own superhero stick puppets. They then made a background for their puppets using a paper plate. Here are their creations:

Have a great evening 🙂

Wednesday – Week 5 – Term 1

Welcome to Wednesday

Snapshot of learning

Science

Living and Non Living

Mr Norris took each class over to the Mudla to engage in a discussion about living and non things. After their discussion the students classified different pictures according to their understanding of living and Non living. Then the children explored the Mudla to discover other things that were living or Non living.

 

HASS

Today we continued our conversation about where we are from. We shared the information that families sent in a couple of weeks ago about cultural background. We played the  you tube clip below and found the countries our families are  connected with.

Where are we from?

Then we drew a picture in our learning journals of a place that is special to us. The children drew a range of places which included: countries, the beach, their bedroom.

Then we enjoyed the story: Whoever you are

Play Investigations

Some of our learning through play today included:

  • Paper folding – following directions, creativity, shape and their properties
  • Laptops – problem solving, numeracy, creativity, collaboration, trail and error
  • Lego – Team work, role play, communication
  • Collage – creativity, problem solving, collaboration

Have a wonderful evening – see you tomorrow.

Michelle and Paul

Tuesday, Term 1, Week 5

Welcome to Thursday.

Today’s Learning:

Word study: The letter Dd

Religion- Today, we listened to the story about when Jesus healed a blind man. We then had a conversation about the story:

Ideas about the story:

Anna D- Helping people is very nice

Harper- Helping people is kind and good to other people

Avelyn- Be kind and nice

Aria- He helped him

Rozy- Sharing with God

Kayden- Be respectful

Joel- The man did help God see

Esrom- God’s work is to heal people

Mason H- God made us

 

How can you be a helper at school?

Kayden- Sharing

Kevin- We share with other people

Clara- Looking and listening

Rozy- Helping is cleaning

Ruwan- Get them up when they fall over

The students then drew a picture of themselves helping others.

Numeracy- During numeracy, we looked at patterns. We spoke about different coloured patterned scarves.

We then created some of our own designs in our numeracy books.

See you tomorrow 🙂

Monday – Week 5 – Term 1

Welcome to Monday – Week 5

Our Calendar

Our Learning

Come Read with Me

Shared Text

Snapshot of Learning

Focus Letter: Mm

Handwriting – today we explored the formation of the letter Mm. The upper and lowercase letters.

Then the children moved into the next task:

Drawing our Mum and writing the words – my Mum.

Music

I wonder the children can teach you a song from music today.

Health

Today we explored different feelings.

We all have big feelings  – so it is important to identify what they are and what we do when we feel this way.

The children started recording different facial expressions that represent different feelings.

Reading

Remember to keep reading each night with your child – see how many ‘Mm’ words you can find in your books.

Have a lovely evening, see you tomorrow.

Michelle and Paul.

Creative Friday – Week 4 Term 1

Snapshot of learning  – Visual Arts

We finished off our week with some creativity.

Today we explore the medium of oil pastels on black paper. The children explored colour, space, perspective as they created their masterpieces. Some children also explored the technique of smudging with a tissue to create a different effect.

The art pieces we  took inspiration from today were:

 Image result for famous pictures done with oil pastels

Some Questions you may like to ask your child about today:

What did you see on the stage during assembly?

What happened during the assembly?

Where did you go after assembly?

What objects did you sort into groups during numeracy time?

Tell me about your group?

Did your Buddy go to the library?

What do you do when you go to library?

Who did you play with during play investigation?

Did you show someone kindness today? Or did someone show you an act of kindness?

Have a wonderful weekend – Thanks for a fun week of learning  and we will see you Monday.

Michelle and Paul

Thursday, Term 1, Week 4

Welcome to Thursday.

Calendar:

Daily Learning:

We also celebrated Krisha’s birthday:

Snapshot of learning:

Numeracy- We explored the number lines and counting up to 20. We then were able to make our own number lines to see how far we could go. Afterwards, we were able to explore the numeracy investigations:

Technologies- Today we made some finger puppets. Some of the students even made their own puppet plays.

Reminder- To bring in library books to return tomorrow, so we can borrow new ones.

 

Many thanks,

Paul and Michelle

 

Wednesday, Term 1, Week 4

Welcome to a wonderful – but very warm Wednesday

Come Read with Me

Challenge today – Can you find ‘s’ ‘a’ ‘p’ ‘t’ ‘I’ or ‘n’  in your book this morning. OR maybe the words  – in, is, it.

 

The Calendar:

Today we celebrated two special birthdays today.

Happy Birthday Aria

Happy Birthday Olivia

We hope you both had lots of fun celebrating your birthdays with us at school today. We look forward to hearing how you celebrated tonight at school tomorrow.

Our Learning Today

Book Making.

Today we looked at lots of books and they had different words and pictures on the pages to tell the story.

Our provocation today is:

How can we add words to our books?

These were our ideas:

  • Use letters you know
  • Use the alphabet chart

Then we  moved to find a super star writing place to start making our books.

 

Ash Wednesday Mass

Today was our whole school Mass for Ash Wednesday

This is a time for reflection: What are some choices we would like to change? What are some things that we wait for?

It is a time for new beginnings  and be thankful for all that is good. Our focus in the classroom continues around ‘kindness’ and what that looks and feels like to others.

After the Mass we finished making our crosses before we moved into play investigations

Play Investigations

Today we saw lots of collaboration, creativity, problem solving and persistence. These are all important learning dispositions for life long learners.

Have a wonderful night – stay  cool and we will see you tomorrow.

Tuesday, Term 1, Week 4

Welcome to Tuesday

Daily Learning:

What do you notice about the calendar?

Harper- There is a tick on Tuesday

Olivia- It’s 1 more sleep til my birthday

Aria- My birthday is February 17th

Rozy- I see balloons and they mean someone’s birthday

Mason- There was a birthday on Chinese New Year. My cousin’e birthday was not long ago.

Snapshot of Learning:

Word Study- Today, we looked at the letter N. We discussed the sound it makes and came up with some words beginning with the letter. We had a go at writing the letter n and even wrote some words beginning with n. Finally, we made a nest and drew something in the nest. Some people tried to write a sentence about their pictures.

Religion- Today we discussed who Jesus was in preparation for the season Lent, which begins tomorrow.

Who was Jesus?

Aman- he was a baby

Rozy- Jesus is God

Avelyn- Jesus is kind

Esrom- Jesus is the king

Jon- Jesus made water

Ellie- Jesus is God

Mason H- Jesus is heart, spirit and he can use everything around him

Kunal- He is the baby and we can pray to him

Anna D- Jesus is God who makes flowers

Lucas- Jesus swims in the water

Xavier- Jesus made the trees

Harper- Jesus makes clouds

Joel- Jesus makes the animals and the plants and the babies and the humans and the starts and the planets

Matilda- Jesus ia a superhero

 

When do you find it hard to make the right choices?

Esrom- Never, You don’t have to think to be good, you just be good

Sometimes we made the wrong choices when we feel angry and sad.

 

We also had a discussion about the meaning of Lent and the purpose of Shrove Tuesday and making pancakes.

 

During numeracy, we continued to sort different materials into groups.

Monday

Welcome to Monday – Week 4.

 

Our Learning today:

The Calendar:

Harper- Today is Monday

Olivia- Yesterday was Valentine’s Day

Kayden- Tomorrow will be Tuesday

Kunal- Tomorrow will be laptop day

 

Come Read with Me

A wonderful time to connect with family and friends through literacy.

Mr Norris read our shared text:

My cat likes to hid in boxes

Word Study

Focus: I i

The children wrote the letter ‘Ii’ in their books and then moved into ‘what is hiding in the box’ activity.

Music R PN

Numeracy R MR

Creating groups using different objects.

The children were exploring different attributes, classification and sorting objects into groups.The children were exploring concepts of :

  • same
  • different
  • classification
  • sorting

Health

Today we explored the questions:

What makes us fell happy?

What makes us feel sad?

The children recorded their ideas in their learning journal.

Have a wonderful night – see you tomorrow.