Wow – Week 8

Celebrating Reading

Congratulations Emily for achieving 125 nights of reading – well done.

Word Study

• Exploring letter sounds
• Constructing sentences

Literacy Games and Activities

Starting our day with literacy activities and conversations.

Design and Technology

• Design an object
• Creating it from boxes and other materials using the plan.

Religion

• Three Wise Men
• Story reflection and art work

Have a lovely weekend. See you on Monday.

Michelle and Paul

Reading Achievements-

Congratulations to Matilda for achieving 75 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Soliana for achieving 175 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Rubi for achieving 200 nights of reading! Well done!

Word Study-

Technologies- The children did a wonderful job collaborating to make a Christmas float. On Monday, we paraded the floats to whole school. The students were so proud of their creations and enjoyed showing them off.

Science- Creating a Venn diagram about push and pull toys.

Nature Play Incursion:

Have a great weekend and we will see you on Monday.

Paul and Michelle

Celebrating our learning in Week 6

Celebrating Reading

Congratulations Annika for achieving 200 nights of reading – well done.

Congratulations Riya for achieving 200 nights of reading – well done.

Congratulations Kimying for achieving 75 and 100 nights of reading – well done.

(we forgot to post the 75 nights photo)

Word Study

• Extending our knowledge of sounds
• Blending letter sounds
• Constructing a sentence
• Extending our knowledge of writing conventions

Rhyme Time

‘un’ word family

We made a list of words – fun, bun, sun, spun, run

Then we created sentences using the words.

Art

This week we started our Christmas Art activities.

Art – Constructing our Christmas Pageant Floats

Numeracy

This week we have been learning about probability and chance.

Have a great weekend – see you on Monday

Michelle and Paul

A great week of learning in RPN and RMR 🙂

Reading Achievements-

Congratulations to Allison for completing 150 nights of reading! Well done!

Word Study-

Mathematics- This week we have been learning about money. For this task the students had to create a piggy bank with money in it. They had to write how much money they have in their piggy bank:

Book Making- Creating and Sharing.

Art- This week, we spoke about perspective used in art work. Each child created a cat, choosing their own perspective.

Have a great weekend and we will see you on Monday.

Paul and Michelle

Learning Highlights for Week 4

Celebrating Reading

Congratulations Annika for achieving  175 nights of reading – well done.

Congratulations Sebastian for achieving 25 nights of reading – well done.

Congratulations Anthony for achieving 100 nights of reading – well done.

Congratulations Ojasvi for achieving 125 nights of reading – well done.

Word Study

• Letter formation
• Blending sounds
• Building words
• Constructing a sentence

Technology

This week we constructed our robots (which we planned last week)

Numeracy

Exploring capacity

• Exploring the descriptive language and concept of full, half full and empty.
• Filling, counting, comparing, ordering

Who sank the boat – capacity exploration

Art

Designing an object to make from play dough – then constructing the object.

1. Plan
2. Create
3. Reflect

Religion

Christmas and Advent are special times in the Church year. Today we made advent wreaths

Have a lovely weekend – see you on Monday

Michelle and Paul

Reading Achievements-

Congratulations to Leonardo for achieving 100 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Soliana for achieving 150 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Rubi for achieving 175 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Ayush for achieving 200 nights of reading! Well done!

Word Study- Displaying independent writing skills:

Mathematics- This week the students have been making their own patterns. They even labelled their patterns with letters:

Art- In art, the students designed their own object on paper and made it using play dough:

Science- Sliding:

Technologies- We designed our robots, which we will make next week:

Have a great weekend and we will see you Monday.

Paul and Michelle

Welcome to Week 2

Snapshot of our learning this week.

Word study

• Letter recognition
• Sound association
• Word Building
• Copying a sentence
• Constructing a sentence
• Text comprehension  – illustrations

Book Making

Spotlight study: Stories from our lives

Numeracy – (This week)

• Ordering numbers
• Counting on
• Addition
• Number problem solving tasks

Diwali Celebrations this week

• What a wonderful week of Diwali celebrations (including making Diya, Assembly presentation, colouring rangoli and paper folding activities.

Technology

• Planning a superhero
• Labeling the plan
• Creating the superhero from the plan (using a spoon, paper, stickers and pop sticks)

Have a wonderful weekend.

See you on Monday

Michelle and Paul

Welcome back to Term 4. The students were very excited to see each other and talked lots about what they did in the holidays.

Reading achievements-

Congratulations to Ayush for completing 175 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Eva for completing 200 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Hainbal for completing 200 nights of reading! Well done!

Reading-

Word Study- This term, we will be encouraging the students to continue to be brave spellers during our word study time. We have seen such growth with the students’ writing skills since the start of the year.

Bookmaking- This week, we started the topic, “Stories From Our Lives”. We had discussions about activities the students did in the holidays, and activities they have done in the past. This is what they could base their books on.

Story Play- The students being creative and communicating through story play.

Mathematics-This task was a problem solving task. The students had to create their own zoo with animals with legs that added up to 20 in total. Here is the students’ learning:

Science- This term, we are looking at the concept of forces and the way objects move. Today, we talked about how some objects can move by rolling. We created a class book about objects that can roll.

Technologies-Here are the designs of the superheroes that the students will be making next week.

Have a great weekend and we hope to see you at the Spring Fair on Sunday!

Paul and Michelle

Hello All,

This weekend, Holy Family Catholic School will present the 2022 Spring Fair.

This is the 20th Spring Fair, subsuming our 40th Birthday as a school having been established in 1981.

When you come to the Fair you will see parents, staff and leaders working side by side. You will see the diversity and talent of our people in action.

The purpose of the Spring Fair is to demonstrate to our children that our community can achieve anything it puts its mind to. Our children are capable and talented. 

FOOD, RIDES, STALLS, PERFORMANCES, AUCTIONS & THE FIREWORKS EXTRAVAGANZA will all FEATURE IN THE CELEBRATIONS OF THE DAY.

If YOU can spare an hour to help set up come to the school on Saturday morning at 9.30am.

Bring the kids!

Free BBQ at 11am.

If you can help on Sunday simply turn up to a stall at any time between 11am and 8pm and offer to help.

We would love to see you there!

Paul and Michelle