Term 4, Week 9

Posted on December 14, 2023 by 1PN and 1SA

Last day of Reception for the wonderful children in

R PN and R MR.

Over the year we have observed kindness and bravery, we have watched the children make new friends and laugh, they have taken risks and had a go at many new things. The children have worked together as a team and taken upon their role within our learning community. We couldn’t be prouder of the childrens’ learning and growth (cognitively and personally).

Thank you to the wonderful families for your support and collaboration in regards to your child’s learning and our community to Holy Family.

We appreciate the kind, thoughtful and very generous cards and gifts – we were definitely very spoilt.

It is not good bye – as we look forward to see your smiling faces around the school next year.

We wish you have a happy and safe holiday with your family and friends and see you all in the new year.

Paul and Michelle

PS – Remember to keep reading in the holidays 🙂

Term 4, Week 8

Posted on December 8, 2023 by michellerodgers

A wonderful week of learning in R MR & R PN.

Week 8

Word Study

Learning Focus:

Letter formation
High frequency words
Copying a sentence
Write a sentence independently.
Draw a picture which connects to the sentence. (Comprehension)

Health

Success Criteria:

Students will:

-Understand the term- I can’t do that YET. If I keep trying I will succeed.

-Create a Yet-i bookmark.

Activity:

Read: The Magical yet

Discuss growth mindsets and fixed mindsets.

Word Study

Learning Focus:

Letter formation
High frequency words
Copying a sentence
Write a sentence independently.
Draw a picture which connects to the sentence. (Comprehension)

Religion

The Christmas Story

Learning Intention: Christmas is a special season in the Church year.

Success Criteria:

Students will:

-Understand that Christmas is the story where Jesus was born.

-Sequence the story in the correct order.

Activity:

Read ‘The Birth of Jesus’ from Luke 2:1-20 – https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+2%3A1-20&version=NIV

Watch the ‘The Birth of Jesus’ video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVx0NbUSF0U

Activity: Nativity Scene Craft

Do you remember the Christmas story?

What happened first?

Then what happened?

What happened next?

Read one of the Christmas stories.

Sequence the Christmas Story.

Technologies

Making an object

Learning Intention: generate, communicate, and evaluate design ideas, and use materials, equipment and steps to safely make a solution for a purpose.

Success Criteria:

Students will:

-Make their object from their design.

Book Making

Letter Writing – salutations (greeting and sign/off)

Refer to words on the Word Wall

Learning Intention:

Articulate the purpose and reader of their card/letter.
Understand the process of mailing and receiving mail.
Craft greeting cards and/or letters with growing intention.
Include letters in students book making.

Science

Experiment- Adding oil and water together.

Learning Intention: Students pose questions and make predictions based on their experiences. They engage in investigations and make observations safely. With guidance, they represent observations and identify patterns. They compare their observations with their predictions.

Success Criteria:

Students will:

Make predictions (hypothesis) for a science experiment. (I think that the …..)
Perform a science experiment.
Draw what happens in the experiment from the observations (results) .

Number

Learning Intention: Students partition and combine collections up to 10 using part-part-whole relationships and subitising to recognise and name the parts.

Success Criteria:

Students will:

-Roll a dice and represent what number they show.

-Create subtraction number sentences from 10.

-Solve subtraction number sentences.

Have a wonderful weekend.

One more week of fun in R MR and R PN

Kind Regards,

Michelle and Paul

Term 4, Week 7

Posted on December 1, 2023 by 1PN and 1SA

Highlights from the week:

Word Study-

Health- In our health lesson this week, we spoke about the word resilience and what it means. The students then tried to used resilience and perseverance to solve a tan-gram puzzle:

Religion- This Sunday marks the beginning of Advent. The students made their own Advent wreaths.

Mathematics- Chance and Data- heads and tails game:

Book Making- Letter and card writing:

Technologies- Parading the Christmas pageant floats the students made to the whole school:

Nature Play Incursion:

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

Paul and Michelle

Term 4, Week 6

Posted on November 26, 2023 by michellerodgers

Week 6 Learning Highlights

Word Study

Learning Focus:

Letter formation
High frequency words
Copying a sentence
Write a sentence independently.
Draw a picture which connects to the sentence. (Comprehension)

Book Making

Learning focus: Writing to others

Technology

Christmas Pageant Floats construction in groups

Our plans:

Mathematics

Learning Focus: Probability – what are things that will happen, might happen and won’t happen?

Art – HASS

Learning focus: Places of significance – Sydney Harbour Bridge

Science

Learning focus: Our senses

Nature Play

Our nature play incursion was so much fun – but then the rain came. So fortunately we get to do it all again next Friday.

Have a great weekend, see you next week.

Michelle and Paul

Term 4, Week 5

Posted on November 17, 2023 by 1PN and 1SA

Reading Achievements-

Congratulations to Julian who achieved 175 nights of reading! Well done!

Congratulations to Marley who achieved 100 nights of reading! Well done!

Word Study-

Literacy- High frequency word game with a partner:

Mathematics- This week we have been learning about money. The students got to explore the coins and did some coin rubbings.

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:

Technologies- We planned our Christmas Pageant floats, which we will make next week:

HASS- Creating diyas for Diwali:

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

Paul and Michelle

Term 4, Week 4

Posted on November 10, 2023 by michellerodgers

Celebrating Our Learning

Week 4

Word study

Learning Focus:

Letter formation
High frequency words
Copying a sentence
Write a sentence independently.
Draw a picture which connects to the sentence. (Comprehension)

Book Making

Learning focus: Stories from our lives

This week we talked about adding a setting and facial expression to our illustrations. Adding these details to our books makes it interesting for the readers and also helps us tell the story.

Mathematics

Learning Intention: Patterns.

We created a pattern, shared a pattern and then continued a pattern.

Learning Intentions: Exploring capacity. Ordering container which holds to the least to the most.

Technology

This week we created our box robots from our plans. Along the way we made adaptions and solved problems.

Play Investigations

Learning important dispositions for life long learning of – communication, problem solving, negotiation, creativity, leadership, collaboration.

Rhyme Time

Have a great weekend – see you on Monday.

Michelle and Paul

Term 4, Week 3

Posted on November 3, 2023 by 1PN and 1SA

Reading Achievements-

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

Word Study- Displaying independent writing skills:

Mathematics- This week, the students have been creating and labeling patterns.

Book Making- Stories From Our Lives:

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

Art- For art this week, the students used their creativity and different mediums to draw portraits of themselves.

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

Paul and Michelle.

Term 4 Week 2

Posted on October 27, 2023 by michellerodgers

A friendly reminder – please remember to bring a sun safe hat to school.

Celebrating our Learning

Week 2

Art

During art we explore Picasso’s cubism artwork. Then the students created their own Picasso inspired artwork using paper.

Mathematics

Learning Intention: Students represent practical situations that involves equal sharing and grouping with physical and virtual materials and use counting or subitising strategies.

Task: Draw four characters, one in each quadrant. Share 20 gold coins between the characters. How many coins does each character get?

Book Making

This term we are creating books about ‘Stories from our lives’.

Students have begun creating books about

Going to a birthday party
Playing soccer
Going on a holiday
Going to the zoo.
Going to the shops.

Word Study

Learning Focus:

Letter formation
High frequency words
Copying a sentence
Write a sentence independently.
Draw a picture which connects to the sentence. (Comprehension)

Technology

This week we created our spoon super hero from our plan (from the previous week). The students transferred their ideas/plans into the construction phases using creativity and problem solving skills to reach their end goal.

Art

Exploring perspective – each student created a collage art picture of a cat which we will use to construct a class mural.

Mathematics

This week we played dice wars with a partner.

Dice Wars: Work in pairs and give each child 10 counters and 2 dice. Each player rolls 2 dice and adds them, the player with the larger sum takes a counter from their partner. Continue to play until all counters have been won by one person.

Have a wonderful weekend – see you on Monday.

Michelle and Paul

Term 4, week 1

Posted on October 20, 2023 by 1PN and 1SA

****Reminder: There is a pupil free day on Monday (23rd October)

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 Julian for achieving 150 nights of reading! Well done!

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

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.

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

Mathematics- This week, we looked at the concept of equal sharing (division). The students had to share 12 bones between 3 dogs and 15 carrots between 3 rabbits.

HASS- We discussed what the word ‘place’ means. We talked about different places that we have visited or know of. The students drew and labelled 4 of their favourite places.