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

Welcome Everyone

Here is a snapshot of our learning throughout Week 8

Celebrating Reading

Congratulations Kabir for achieving 125 night of reading. – Well done

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

We are so proud of the children and the progress they have made with their independent reading so far this year. Keep reading every night and you will flourish.

Some of the fun clips we watch to help us remember the alphabet and high frequency words.

Word Study this week:

Handwriting – ‘ss’ and ‘zz’

ss – words – hiss, miss, Tess, pass

zz- words – buzz, Jazz, fizz

The children also copied short sentences to extend their learning  about high frequency words and sentence structure. The children then drew pictures which demonstrated their comprehension of the text.

 

 

 

Play Investigations

Book Making

Author study – Pamela Allen

This week we have been taking about characters in Pamela Allen books.

We made a long list of characters she uses, they include:

Dragon, boy, bear, king, queen, families, ducks, cow, monster, girl, baby, policeman, elephant, walrus, grandma

We also talked about how Pamela Allen draws her characters the same all the way through her books. – Like the little boy in the story  – Is your grandmother a goanna?  The boys has green shorts and a blue top, he has a back pack and a hat on throughout the book.

Technology

You have been invited to a costume birthday party – What costume are you going to wear?

Task – design and label your costume.

 

Numeracy

This week we played location and direction games on targeting math. We also drew a map of our bedrooms and of the zoo.

Rhyme Time

Word families : – ay

We made a long list of -ay words which included

Fay

day

hay

pay

play

spray

clay

May

say

The children recreated the rhyme using drawings and collage.

Have a lovely weekend – see you on Monday.

Michelle and Paul

Highlights of Learning during Week 6

Celebrating Reading

Congratulations Riley for achieving 100 nights of reading, well done.

Congratulations Ruby for achieving 75 nights of reading – well done

 

Congratulations Matilda for achieving 25 nights of reading – well done

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

Reading

Starting our day with conversation and connecting with our friends during ‘Come Read with Me’. Thank you for reading with your child at home as often as you can. As we say to the children –  you get better at reading by reading 🙂

 

Word Study

This week we learnt about ‘at’ words and ‘ng’ words. The children then copied simple sentences using some new high frequency words. The children then drew a picture to reflect their comprehension of the sentence.

 

Play Investigations – following our interests and ideas with focus and enthusiasm.

 

Numeracy

During numeracy this week we have been learning about data – how to collect and record information.

Sorry we were so busy collecting data we forgot to take photos.

Maybe ask your child about how we collected date by rolling the dice – And they can show you their learning at home.

 

Technology

This week we talked about different clothes and how they have changed over the years. The children then designed their own t-shirt using colours, pictures and patterns they liked.

Book Making

This week we have been writing books together during interactive writing sessions during our mini lessons. These lesson explore how to construct a sentence and ways we can add words to our books.

We have begun our author study this week. We are learning about Pamela Allen. She is a popular Author who was born in New Zealand. Over the next few weeks we will read Pamela’s books and look and learn about how she has constructed the books she has written.

Some of her books are:

 

Rhyme Time

We learnt about ‘ed’ words and enjoyed the rhyme 5 little monkeys jumping on the bed. The children recorded a visual representation of the rhyme in their math books.

R PN and R MR Assembly – Friday 17th – 9am in the Hall

We have been busy getting ready for our assembly, we hope to see you all there next week.

Have a great long weekend – See you on Tuesday

Michelle and Paul

 

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.

 

 

Technology

Origami Dog

Students watched how to make an origami dog head. They create their own and add details using markers, crayons or pencils. .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHu3K-ZuOFs

Have a great weekend.

See you on Monday

Michelle and Paul

Welcome to Term 2

What a wonderful week of learning in R MR and R PN.

It is so nice to have parents back on site, as we slowly return to the new ‘normal’.

Celebrating Reading

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

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

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

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

Congratulations Annika for completing 75 nights of reading – well done.

Reading

During ‘Come Read with Me’ the children have been using mini magnifying glasses to look for High Frequency Words and the letters for the week – ‘w’ and ‘x’. This activity each morning is building upon the children’s stamina for reading as they focus on each page for longer as they look for  the words and letters. Then they are very excited to shared their discoveries.

Word Study

Letter  – W w

Sentence: (The children copy these in their literacy books)

The cat said Meow.

The dog said woof.

During this time we focus upon:

• Letter formation
• Initial sounds – words that begin with ‘w’.
• Sentence structure – capital letters, full stops and spaces between words.
• Recognition of high frequency words
• Comprehension  – drawing a picture to represent the text.

Word Study

Letter  – X x

Sentences: (The children copy these in their literacy books)

The cat on the mat.

The dog on the log.

During this time we focus upon:

• Letter formation
• Initial sounds – words that begin with ‘x’.
• Sentence structure – capital letters, full stops and spaces between words.
• Recognition of high frequency words
• Comprehension  – drawing a picture to represent the text.

Numeracy

During numeracy we have been exploring 2 Dimensional shapes through:

• Finding shapes around the room and sorting them into groups.
• Shape games on the laptop
• Shape pictures – using coloured paper
• Shape rotation activities (Shape blocks, geo boards, drawing shapes and pop stick shapes.

All of these activities teach and reinforce the children’s ability to sort, describe and name different 2 D shapes.

Health

This week in health we talked about relationship circles. First we read the story Grandpa’s shoes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajBlaBW7FPk

Then we talked about the different people in our relationship circle that can help us: Starting with ourselves in the middle, Our family, friends and then other people in the community.

Play Investigations –

A time to build upon important learning dispositions as a life long learner.

• Leadership
• Problem solving
• Creativity
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Negotiation
• Resilience
• Sustained attention

Questions to ask your child:
Who did you play with?

What did you play with?

Did you learn anything new?

Did you have any problems to solve?

What was your favourite part?

Did you help anyone during play investigations?

HASS

During HASS we talked about- This is a map and this is a globe, how are they the same and how are they different.

Then we read the story Possum Magic.

As we read the story we followed the Possum’s journey around Australia, locating the different cities on the map.

In groups the students drew a picture of Australia and then made the puppets to then retell the story of possum magic.

Book Making

Focus lessons:

• Noticing BIG and BOLD in mentor text.
• Why do some authors use BIG and BOLD in their books?
• Adding details to our pictures.
• Being a brave speller and adding words to our books. (what is around the room to help you add words?)

Questions to ask your child:

Can you tell me what you are making your book about?

Who are the characters in your book?

Have a wonderful weekend – see you on Monday

Michelle and Paul

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV3R1xnDjuk

The Rainbow Fish

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUlTdCWNUN0

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

Week 8

We begun our week with: Harmony Day

Everyone belongs – Together we are a team – which is our focus every day  in R MR and R PN

We enjoyed sharing stories, a picnic lunch, making badges, online assembly and wearing orange and our cultural dress.

Here our some photos of Play Investigations which demonstrates everyone working together as a team.

Reading

The importance of reading every day at school and at home:

• The children get to know the sounds, rhythms and words used in different ways.
• Children think about feelings of characters and ideas in books. This helps them understand their world.
• Sharing books with others builds positive interactions.

Literacy

Word study focus:

• Letter formation
• Sound association
• Word building
• Sentences and creating meaning
• Visual representation
• Fine motor skills

This week our focus was the letter ‘Ee’ and the digraph – ck.

 

Book Making

The children were busy being authors on Wednesday and Thursday morning, adding words and detailed illustrations to their books.

Science

This week we explored the parts of a plant. Then we drew a labelled diagram.

HASS

During HASS we shared the story “Just the way we are” we talked about our families all being different and drew a picture of our families.

 

 

Technology

During technology we made puppets using paper bags. The children used paper to add ears, arms, legs, whiskers, eyes and tails. Wonderful creativity was demonstrated by all.

Numeracy Rotations

Today we explored mathematics through different rotations, activities included:

• Writing numerals
• Number towers
• Counting the value
• Board game
• Numbers before and after

Rhyme Time

Here is a bee hive…..

After we listened to the rhyme we made a list of all the words we could think of that rhyme with bee:

me, she, he , tee, pea, flee

Then the children drew a pictorial representation of the rhyme.

Have a wonderful weekend – see you next week.

A busy, short week – filled with writing, reading, drawing, playing and making.

A quick reminder – Don’t forget next Monday is Harmony Day

• Harmony Day will be held in Week 8 of this term on Monday 21^st March. Harmony Day is a day to celebrate Australia’s diversity. It is a day of cultural respect for everyone who calls Australia home. The ongoing theme of Harmony Day is “everyone belongs”. Students are encouraged to wear traditional cultural clothing or orange clothes.

Celebrating 25 nights of reading – well done to Riley, Riya, Ruby, Jaylah and Allison for achieving 25 nights of reading.

Come Read with me

The students have been using their black bags during ‘Come Read with Me’ – to read and revisit their learning/reading.

During, come read with me the students have been finding the letters of the week in their books. This week the student have been finding the letter ‘c’ and ‘k’ .

Word Study

Letter ‘Cc’

Letter ‘Kk’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqduxpaiaBM

 

Mathematics

Patterns – throughout the week we have been creating, continuing and recording patterns.

Book Making

The children have been busy constructing books this week. The children have included different aspects such as:

• Their name on the front cover, as they are the authors
• Detailed illustrations
• Brave 5 year old spelling
• A consistent characters
• The weather

Play Investigations – A time to explore areas of interest with zest.

During play with children continue to build upon the skills of:

• Collaboration
• Problem solving
• Creativity
• Leadership

Religion

“The Good Samaritan”

After the story we reflected upon who and how we help at school or at home. Then we recorded in our learning journals.

Some of the children’s reflections included:

Mason: I help at home

Soliana: I help me Mum to do massage.

Mattia: I help my dad cut the grass.

Wyatt: I help people when they fall down.

Ceara: I help my dad when he mows the lawn, when he is finished I help sweep up.

Matilda: I help my sister clean up her room.

Sofia: I help my Daddy make eggs sometimes.

Kimying: I help my Mum cleaning up in my toy room.

Emmanuel: I help people clean up.

An Moc: I help my dad clean up the house.

Kur: I help me Mum with the paper.

Ava: I help my grandma bake cookies.

Elden: I help me Mum when my Mum is sick.

Agam: I help my Mum when she drops somethings.

 

Have a fantastic weekend – See you on Monday for Harmony Day

Good Afternoon Everyone.

I was having a problem uploading photos (it was only letting me upload 3-5 photos at a time) – so I will continue working on the blog tonight and it will hopefully be ready to go tomorrow.

Thank you for understanding and your patience.

Have a wonderful weekend – see you on Monday.

Michelle

A marvelous week of learning in

R MR and R PN.

Enjoy this snapshot of learning from week 5. Please use the photos to spark conversation  with your child about the tasks and their learning.

Congratulations to Mattia who achieved 25 nights of reading – well done.

We all enjoy beginning our day with literacy and connections though conversation. After the children put their backpacks away they transition into the room through literacy games and activities. The children also use this time to read books and talk with their friends.

Word Study

Letter ‘Mm’ and Letter ‘Dd’

We engage in ‘word study’ tasks on Monday and Tuesday mornings. During this time the children explore letter sounds, formation and word building.

 

 

Word Study

After our hand writing task, the children engage in a fine motor task centered around the focus letter. This week we made paper mats and drew a cat sitting on the mat. On Tuesday we made mini dog books.

Book Making

On Wednesday and Thursday we are authors, busy creating books. The children add detailed drawings and brave 4 & 5 year old spelling and of course their names on the front (as the author).

Numeracy

This week the children have been sorting objects into groups using the characteristics of shapes, colour and size. We used a range of materials across the week and also worked independently and in small groups.

Play Investigations

The children enjoyed exploring favourite areas of play – marble run, duplo, craft and the home corner. The children also had the opportunity to use the laptop to explore numeracy games.

Art

On Wednesday we read the story – The artist who painted a blue horse by Eric Carle.

Then we watched a clip about the painting which inspired Eric Carle to write the book. Then we created our own art work – starting with our favourite colour and favourite animal.

 

Religion

This week we had a liturgy on Wednesday for Ash Wednesday and on Friday we each made a Lenten promise.

Have a wonderful weekend – see you on Monday.

Michelle and Paul