Wow – It is week 11.

What a fantastic term of learning in R MR and R PN.

We have seen children make friends, try new things, explore a new school, be brave, ask questions, discover new thinking, share stories, laugh and have fun.

It has been a  busy term where the children have established the important positive social and emotional foundation necessary for learning. They have learnt what it is like to be a part of a learning community and we are excited to see what term 2 brings.

Celebrating Reading

Congratulations to Ayush for completing 25 nights of reading – well done.

Congratulations to Agam for completing 25 nights of reading – well done

Congratulations to Riley for completing 50 nights of reading – well done.

 

Congratulations to Allison for completing 50 nights of reading – well done.

Reading in the mornings

Reading in the holidays

Here are some links for some holiday reading.

https://www.littlefox.com/en/readers/contents_list/DP000475

Sight words song

It would be great to learn some new sight words in the holidays.

You might like to sign up to Reading Eggs for a free trial 🙂

https://readingeggs.com.au/schools/

Oxford Reading Tree have books online like the links below – you can also google some more title – Oxford reading tree – read with highlighted words – level 1

Word Study

Letter ‘Ff’

We explored writing the letter Ff, thinking of words that begin with the letter ‘Ff’ and  making a rainbow fish.

The Rainbow Fish

The other letter we learnt this week was the letter ‘Ll’.

Ladybug paper folding – Then the students created a garden for their ladybug.

Book Making

The children have been amazing authors of their own books this term. The children have been brave 4/5 year old spellers by adding words to their books and increasing the details in their illustrations to tell a story.

Easter crafts

Easter Cards and Easter Baskets.

Play Investigations

Building upon important learning dispositions for life long learning:

• Collaboration
• Problem solving
• Creativity
• Persistence
• Leadership
• Zest

We wish everyone a happy and safe holiday and we look forward to see all your smiling faces next term.

Michelle and Paul

Another fantastic week of learning in RPN and RMR.

Reading Achievements-

Congratulations to Anthony who achieved 25 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Sofia, Ceara and Rubi for achieving 50 nights of reading! Well done!

 

Reading- Each morning, the students have continued their reading in class. We have seen their reading stamina growing throughout the term.

Word Study-

Hh-

 

After the students completed their writing, the students made their own house.

Bb-

After students completed their writing, the students made their own Bb books.

Mathematics- This week, learning has centered around the topic of time. We learnt about the months of the year, days of the week and seasons of the year. On Tuesday, we listened to the story of,  ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. The students recorded the different things the caterpillar ate through on each day.

 

Science- The students have enjoyed doing their science learning in the MUDLA this term. This week, we again spoke about how plants are living things, and discussed the different fruit and vegetables the students know of. They then drew and labelled different fruits and vegetables in their books.

Technologies-Over the past three weeks, the students have been making different types of puppets. This week we made some superhero stick puppets.

Rhyme Time-

 

Today we sang the song, “1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Once I caught a Fish Alive”. We asked the students if they could think of any words that rhyme with the word bite.

Here is what some of the students came up with:

Elden- right

Sofia- night

Wyatt- kite

Mattia- flight

Anyar- light

Ayush- white

The students then created a visual representation of the song.

 

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

Paul and Michelle

What a glorious week of learning in RPN and RMR.

Reading Achievements-

Congratulations to Mason for achieving 25 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Eva, Mattia, Hudson and Kabir for achieving 50 nights of reading! Well done!

English-

The Letter Uu-

This week the students did some learning around the letter Uu. They practised writing the letter and words beginning with the u sound. After they had finished this, they made their own unicorns.

 

The Letter Rr-

Students also learnt about the letter Rr. Students created their own pictures of a robot, after they finished practising writing the letter and writing words beginning with the sound.

Bookmaking- This week during book making sessions, we spoke about the use of speech bubbles. We read the stories, ‘The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?’ and “Can I Play Too?”, which gave the students some inspiration to have a go at adding speech bubbles to their own books.

 

Mathematics- During this week, the students have been practising their number skills. On Thursday, the students explored some number provocations. Here are the students showing off their number skills:

Technologies- This week during technologies, the students made finger puppets. Some students also made their own puppet plays after making their creations.

Religion- On Sunday, the 10th of April, it will be Palm Sunday. Today, the students learnt about the story of Palm Sunday. Each student created a picture depicting what happened on Palm Sunday.

 

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

Paul and Michelle