We welcomed the students back to school for term 3, on Monday. The students, after a well deserved break, came back to school, ‘ready to learn’.

Important dates-

RPN and 5/6 NB Buddy Assembly- Friday 5th August, 9am in the Hall.

RMR and 5/6NA Buddy Assembly- Friday 12th August, 9am in the Hall.

 

 

Reading achievements-

Congratulations to Ava for completing 25 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Hainbal for completing 100 nights of reading! Well done!

 

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

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

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

Word Study- This term, we are focusing on becoming more independent writers and encouraging the students to be brave spellers. The students will have more opportunities to create their own sentences during our word study time. We also are reinforcing the names and sounds of the letters of the alphabet.

Book Making- This week, we looked at different published books and the way that they are organsied. Some were organised by colour, some were organised by topic and others organised by lists.

Mathematics- The students used flip tiles and a 10 frame grid to make additions that equals 10. They then recorded these in their books.

 

Science- The learning this term will be centered around the weather. We had discussions about what the students already know about the weather, and they displayed their knowledge on a piece of paper.

Technologies- This term, our learning will be to do with foods. For this activity, we discussed foods that we like and foods that we don’t like. The students recorded some of these in columns.

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

Paul and Michelle.

 

 

Wow  – Our last blog for Term 2.

What a fantastic term of learning. We are very proud of all the children – their persistence, kindness and growth.

Reading achievements

Congratulations Ojasvi for achieving 50 nights of reading – well done.

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

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

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

Congratulations Harry for achieving 75 nights of reading – well done.

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

Congratulations Hudson for achieving 150 nights of reading – well done.

 

The children have made incredible progress with their independent reading this term. Remember to keep reading over the holidays and also enjoy watching some YouTube alphabet or sight word videos 🙂

Word Study – Literacy focus

• Formation of letters
• Exploring the structure of a sentence (capital letters, spaces between words, full stops)
• Comprehension
• Detailed drawings
• Word building  – initial sounds, blending sounds

Book Making

• Creative Authors
• Brave spellers
• Detailed illustrators
• Expressing ideas through book creation

Reading our books to a friend

HASS – Refugee Week

Shared a Meal – Share a Story

On Monday we had a special lunch around the tables to enable conversations with our peers.

Lubna and Pebble

After we shared the story we created our own rock friends –

Rock friends- a simple gesture to spread joy and happiness to others. The children were able to keep their rock friend or give it to someone.

Play Investigations

• Leading learning
• Sharing ideas and resources
• Creativity
• Problem solving
• Negotiation
• Collaboration

Numeracy

Number formation – we focused upon the correct formation (which will be continued next term) – you might like to practice in the holidays 🙂

Addition – This week we started to exploring the concept of addition, the symbols, equation and the process.

We created addition sums by:

• Rolling 2 dice and adding the numbers together
• Adding the two numbers on a domino tile.

We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday. We look forward to seeing all of your smiling faces, ready for lots of fun learning in term 3.

In Kindness

Michelle and Paul

What a great week in RPN and RMR.

Reading Achievements-

Congratulations to Kimying who completed 25 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Soliana who completed 75 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Ayush who completed 75 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Jaylah who completed 75 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Ceara who completed 125 nights of reading! Well done!

Health- After reading the story, ‘Mutt Dog’, we spoke about what responsibility means. We connected this with being responsible members of the school. Here are some discussion comments made by the students:

Being responsible at school means…

Taking care of stuff (Jaylah)

Taking care of your friends (Agam)

Being kind (Sofia)

Being kind to your friends and walking and not hitting anybody (Matilda)

Listening to the teacher (Kimying)

Picking up rubbish (Ava)

Putting your rubbish in the bin (Emmanuel)

Playing with friends (Harry)

Sharing paper (Eva)

Not being rude (Rubi)

Taking care of the books (Ruby)

Being kind and helpful to your teachers (Hainbal)

Sharing (Mattia)

The students drew themselves being a responsible school member:

Word Study- This week’s sounds were ar and ee. After writing their sentences, the students had a go at making up their own sentence.

Book Making- We have been continuing our study on the author/illustrator Pamela Allen. We have shared many of her stories together and the students are trying to use aspects of how she makes her books in their books.

Science- This week, we continued our learning about materials and their properties. We listened to the story of the 3 Little Pigs. The students had to draw the three houses made from straw, sticks and bricks. They then had to write a property of each of the materials.

Technologies- The students had a discussion about the different uniforms that workers wear. Their task was to draw a worker with their uniform on, and they had to try and label the different clothing items they wear and the equipment that they use.

What type of workers wear a uniform?

Police officer (Hudson)

Factory worker (Kimying)

Fire fighter (Mason)

Doctor (Emmanuel)

Builder (Riley)

Driver (Konrad + Agam)

Council worker (Leonardo)

Nurse (Eva)

Dentist (Kobi)

Zoo keeper (Allison)

Paramedic (Sofia)

Today was Catholic Identity Day. We got together with our buddy classes to make pledges about looking after God’s world.

Have a great weekend and we will see you next week for the last week of the term.

Paul and Michelle