Welcome to a fun week of learning in R MR and R PN

Reading Achievements

Congratulations Eva for achieving 100 nights of reading – well done

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

Congratulations Hainbal for achieving 50 nights of reading – well done

Congratulations to Mattia for achieving 75 nights of reading – well done.

Come Read with me – a wonderful way to start the day

Each morning we look for letters and words in our books, as well as reading with our friends or independently. The magnifying glasses make it lots of fun.

Word Study

This week we explored the letter ‘Qq’ and the blend ‘ch’.

The students also built upon their high frequency word knowledge by copying, reading and drawing a picture to represent a short sentence.

Letter ‘Qq’

Blend – ch

Book Making

During Book Making the students continue to be brave spellers by adding words to their books. The students add familiar words or strings of letters or letters that represent the sounds they hear in the word. All of these are important building blocks for our students to be confident independent writers. The books the students are creating include wonderful detailed illustrations. The students are beginning to include details such as the weather, time of day, movement lines and facial expressions.

National Simultaneous Story Time

On Wednesday we enjoyed a wonderful story with amazing illustrations in the hall with the whole school. This story was shared on Wednesday across Australia.

HASS

This week we shared the Cambodian folktake tale about ‘The Origin of the Tiger’

This story is a famous Cambodian folktale because it explains the origin of the tiger and also emphasizes the idea that people must cooperate together for the common good.

Together we found Australia using google earth and then ‘flew’ from School, Parafield Gardens to Cambodia.

https://earth.google.com

The students located Cambodia on a maps and then coloured in Cambodia and drew a mini tiger representing the story.

Then the students made a tiger from cardboard.

Art/Drama

This week we made puppets to represent the story Goldilocks and the Three Bear which the students then acted out.

Numeracy

This week we were learning about 3 Dimensional shapes. As we were building, drawing, sorting different shapes we were also learning about their properties. We also talked about objects in the real world that were cones, cubes, cylinders, rectangular prisms and spheres.