Hello RTH & RLY Families,

We have reached the end of week seven and we only have a few weeks left together. So, here is what we achieved this week…

Literacy:

In word study this week, we looked at picture prompts and sentence writing. This involved verbally describing what we see in photos, learning how to describe different items and practiced writing sentences using different descriptive words. We worked on this as a group and then continued independently. We then looked at what we accomplished in reception and what we hope to achieve in year one. In bookmaking we continued with our letters, cards and postcards, focusing on making our own envelopes for what we have written. We made sure to involve a stamp, address, name and return address/name.

Numeracy:

In numeracy we continued with position and focused on learning our left or rights, placing things in a queue with ordinal numbers, use beebots to follow directions and use our positional knowledge. Along with this we created a map and placed the beebots on a map, where we navigated, described, programmed and presented our beebots.

Arts:

In arts this week, we continued to connect body movements to beats and created our own short motif; a few movements joined together. We made various motifs and performed our understandings.

Health:

In health this week we focused on reinforcing what we know about being safe and created a mind map for each theme of safety we focused on. We then introduced persistence where we discussed the concept of persistence and read stories about persistence.

Religion:

In religion this week, we looked at the birth of Jesus, focusing on the fact the Christmas day is the day Jesus was born. We then drew a picture of Jesus in the manger with others such as Mary, Joseph, the three wise men and so forth.

HaSS:

In HaSS this week, we looked at how First Nations Australians care for their land and the importance of Indigenous land management practices. We did this through having discussions, introducing practices and then reflected on what ways we can care for the land.

Science:

This week in science we looked at how scientists, farmers and explorers use observations skills to understand their environment. We did this through observing nature, going on a walk to observe different natural elements, documenting our observations and then. We reflected as a group.

We hope you have a great weekend,

Ms. Yeend & Ms. Tiana

REMINDERS:

Reading at home:

Please don’t feel pressured to read with your children at home as we would like this to be a fun experience for you both however, if you are able to, it would support your children’s learning greatly if you could find some time to enjoy a picture book together or work on their readers.

Nuts:

We have children with anaphylaxis in our classrooms and Nutella poses a danger to their health. We are strictly a nut free environment so please be mindful of this when packing lunch boxes.

Pizza Party

We have been recycling our bottles and boxes this semester and are hoping to have a class pizza party at the end of the term with the money we raise from recycling. We are aware of student’s allergies in regards to food, but if there are any other food preferences within your family, please let us know.

Christmas Carols:

Christmas Carols will be held on Thursday 5th December 2024 from 6:30-8:00pm on the school oval. All children must be supervised by their families before and after their performance. Please bring a picnic rug and get ready to be festive with us! We’ve been practising really hard and are really in the Christmas spirit! Students are highly encouraged to wear Christmas clothes/colours for the event.

If you have any questions, concerns or queries, feel free to chat to either teacher!

Hello RTH & RLY Families,

Welcome to the end of another awesome week together, here is what we got up to…

Literacy:

In word study this week we reviewed our digraphs, high frequency words, bases/suffixes, and sentence writing. We then started to explore plurals and how/when to use the ‘s’ or ‘es’ plural with words. We then began our word study assessment (the last one for the year!). In book making we continued with learning how to write to others, we look at cards and letters once again to do this. We worked on decorating the front of cards and then focused on thankyou cards, writing a thankyou card to another person in the class.

Mathematics:

In mathematics this week, we focused on position and location and which language to use when describing where something is.

Technology:

In technology we used our designs of the playground from last week and turned them into 3D models!

Arts:

In arts this week, we continued to connect body movements to beats and created our own short motif; a few movements joined together. We made various different motifs and performed our understandings.

Health:

This week in health we looked at different strategies that help keep us safe, including saying no, remembering important details, going to safe places and so forth. We also looked at different ways to be resilient.

Religion:

In religion, we learnt about the different seasons and colours of the Catholic Church as we approach the season of Advent. We learnt that this colour is Purple and signifies new beginnings.

HaSS:

This week in HaSS we had an incursion from Trent Hill which linked with our HaSS unit of learning on traditional places and how important they are.

Science:

In science this week, we concluded our unit of work on identifying and describing patterns in nature. We focused on weather, the patterns we have noticed in our weather journals and communicated our findings with others.

REMINDERS:

Reading at home:

Please don’t feel pressured to read with your children at home as we would like this to be a fun experience for you both however, if you are able to, it would support your children’s learning greatly if you could find some time to enjoy a picture book together or work on their readers.

Nuts:

We have children with anaphylaxis in our classrooms and Nutella poses a danger to their health. We are strictly a nut free environment so please be mindful of this when packing lunch boxes.

Pizza Party

We have been recycling our bottles and boxes this semester and are hoping to have a class pizza party at the end of the term with the money we raise from recycling. We are aware of student’s allergies in regards to food, but if there are any other food preferences within your family, please let us know.

Christmas Carols:

Christmas Carols will be held on Thursday 5th December 2024 from 6:30-8:00pm on the school oval. All children must be supervised by their families before and after their performance. Please bring a picnic rug and get ready to be festive with us! We’ve been practising really hard and are really in the Christmas spirit! Students are highly encouraged to wear Christmas clothes/colours for the event.

If you have any questions, concerns or queries, feel free to chat to either teacher!

See you in week 7,

Ms. Yeend & Ms. Tiana

Hello RTH & RLY Families,

Welcome to the end of another awesome week together, here is what we got up to…

Literacy:

In word study this week we reviewed our digraphs, high frequency words, bases/suffixes, sentence writing and then began to look at bases and prefixes. We put this all together through brainstorming, writing, sounding out and creating sentences. In book making we continued with learning how to write to others, we look at cards and letters once again to do this. We worked on decorating the front of cards and then focused on thankyou cards, writing a thankyou card to another person in the class.

Mathematics:

In mathematics this week, we focused on duration and sequencing. We reflected on the meaning of duration and sequencing and used hands on materials to measure both concepts.

Technology:

In technology we attempted to draw our own design of a playground, that we can attempt to construct in the future with art materials.

Arts:

In arts this week, we continued to connect body movements to beats and created our own short motif; a few movements joined together. We made various different motifs and performed our understandings.

Health:

This week in health we looked at different strategies that help keep us safe, including saying no, remembering important details, going to safe places and so forth. We also looked at different ways to be resilient.

Religion:

In religion, we drew ways we can be like Jesus. This involves being respectful, being kind, sharing love, taking care of people/animals and so forth.

HaSS:

This week in HaSS we look at natural places around us and worked towards understanding why it is important to maintain and protect these spaces. This involved brainstorming, writing and drawing.

Science:

In science this week, we focused on identifying and describing patterns in nature. We focused on weather, the patterns we have noticed in our weather journals and communicated our findings with others.

REMINDERS:

Reading at home:

Please don’t feel pressured to read with your children at home as we would like this to be a fun experience for you both however, if you are able to, it would support your children’s learning greatly if you could find some time to enjoy a picture book together or work on their readers.

Nuts:

We have children with anaphylaxis in our classrooms and Nutella poses a danger to their health. We are strictly a nut free environment so please be mindful of this when packing lunch boxes.

Boxes:

If you have any boxes at home that you are going to recycle, we would love to have them donated to the classroom if possible! These will help us to create our playground in technology that we have designed!

Pizza Party

We have been recycling our bottles and boxes this semester and are hoping to have a class pizza party at the end of the term with the money we raise from recycling. We are aware of student’s allergies in regards to food, but if there are any other food preferences within your family, please let us know.

If you have any questions, concerns or queries, feel free to chat to either teacher!

See you in week 6,

Ms. Yeend & Ms. Tiana

Hello RTH & RLY Families,

Welcome to the end of Week 4! Here’s a quick recap of what we got up to…

Literacy:

This week in word study we have started to review and consolidate our learning from the year so far. We reviewed digraphs, high frequency words, bases and suffixes and focused on independent writing and pushing our reading a little bit further. In bookmaking we have started a new spotlight study: ‘Writing to others’. In this study we will look at writing letters and cards to other people – this will be so much fun as we get closer to Christmas!!

Mathematics:

In mathematics, we looked at capacity. We did some hands on investigations using sand and water to explore and play with different containers and predicted how much they would hold.

Technology:

This week in technology we conducted a STEAM challenge where we had to create a freestanding bridge that could hold the weight of Lego using only paper.

Arts:

In arts we learnt some new dances to work on our co-ordination and explore the different ways our bodies can move.

Health:

This week in health we reflected on how to use assertive communication to keep ourselves safe.

Religion:

In religion this week, we started a new unit of work on ‘Many people try to be like Jesus’. We explored this through stories of Jesus and his disciples and connected this to how we try to be like Jesus in our everyday lives.

HaSS:

In HaSS we worked towards understanding the cultural significance of different places and how these places hold special understandings and provide us with the things we need to survive and thrive in a community.

Science:

This week we continued with our weather journals and reflected on our previous observations and discussed different types of weather.

REMINDERS:

Reading at home:

Please don’t feel pressured to read with your children at home as we would like this to be a fun experience for you both however, if you are able to, it would support your children’s learning greatly if you could find some time to enjoy a picture book together or work on their readers.

Nuts:

We have children with anaphylaxis in our classrooms and Nutella poses a danger to their health. We are strictly a nut free environment so please be mindful of this when packing lunch boxes.

See you in week 5,

Ms. Yeend & Ms. Tiana

Hello RTH & RLY Families,

We have had such a busy, learning filled week! So, let’s catch you up on what we have learnt:

Literacy:

This week in word study we looked at our last new sounds for the term, these were ‘ee’ and ‘-y’, both making an /e/ sound. We brainstormed different words with these sounds, created sentences with these sounds, blended words, segmented words and engaged in a poem with these sounds. We also looked at new heart words, these were ‘or’, ‘see’, ‘saw’. In bookmaking we looked at the difference of performing, writing, singing and so forth; with a focus of looking at the ways different cultures communicate their stories about their lives. This supported us to create detailed stories about our lives and wrap up the unit!

Mathematics:

In mathematics, we looked at mass; discussing what mass is, why it is important and how understanding mass can support us. We spent the week comparing different masses, ordered and labelled differing masses, used balance scales to weigh mass and create mass-based crafts.

Technology:

This week in technology we reflected on what a free-standing structure is and designed our own free-standing structure. We spoke about frame structures and focused on different shapes to support creating a structure. We then created the structure and reflected on our design compared to our creations.

Arts:

In arts we focused on developing different skills to move our body to music. We practiced different dance moves and followed different card prompted ways to move our body.

Health:

This week in health we reflected on ‘what if…’ scenarios. This involved focusing on our protective strategies to keep themselves safe in various provided scenarios. We then practiced being assertive without using words, focusing on body language.

Religion:

In religion this week, we spent our last week focusing on the nature that God provides, and we had to draw ways we can care for nature.

HaSS:

In HaSS we worked towards understanding Indigenous Connections to Country. This involved looking at an acknowledgement of country, Indigenous stories and then looked at places that are special to us and drew what place is special to us.\

Science:

This week we continued with our weather journals and reflected on our previous observations and discussed different types of weather.

REMINDERS:

Reading at home:

Please don’t feel pressured to read with your children at home as we would like this to be a fun experience for you both however, if you are able to, it would support your children’s learning greatly if you could find some time to enjoy a picture book together or work on their readers.

Nuts:

We have children with anaphylaxis in our classrooms and Nutella poses a danger to their health. We are strictly a nut free environment so please be mindful of this when packing lunch boxes.

See you in week 4,

Ms. Yeend & Ms. Tiana

Hello RTH & RLY families,

Welcome to the end of week 2, we are so excited for this last term together and are looking forward to what this term brings!

Literacy:

This week in word study we reflected on what a consonant is, what a vowel is and what a digraph is when beginning the term. We then learnt the /oy/ sound, focusing on the use of ‘oy’ and ‘oi’ when spelling out words. We blended and segmented these words and then placed them into sentences. We also continued to learn new heart words/high frequency words. In bookmaking, we continued our new focus on stories of our lives. Through this we will reflect on life events, celebrations, holidays and so forth to write about.

Mathematics:

In mathematics, we have continued to look at measurement. We have learnt different core words to discuss measurement and have focused on the attributes of items when measuring them. This involved: ‘capacity’, ‘height’, ‘mass’ and so forth. We did this by making connections to real life and collected data within discovering different measurements. This week we focused on height and the terminology that we use to describe this.

Technology:

Throughout technologies this week we looked at freestanding structures and used recycled materials to create our own.

Arts:

This week in art we continued to explore dancing like different animals! We made animal masks and danced to different music.

Health:

In health, we revisited our trust networks and discussed how they may have changed.

HaSS:

This week in HaSS, we revisited drawing pictorial maps and created a pictorial map of a familiar place using positional language.

Science:

In science, we created our own weather journals which we will use over the coming weeks to note down observations of the changes in weather patterns during Spring.

Religion:

In religion this week we discussed how to care for God’s creations and went for a walk around the school to help pick up rubbish.

REMINDERS:

Reading at home:

Please don’t feel pressured to read with your children at home as we would like this to be a fun experience for you both however, if you are able to, it would support your children’s learning greatly if you could find some time to enjoy a picture book together or work on their readers.

Nuts:

We have children with anaphylaxis in our classrooms and Nutella poses a danger to their health. We are strictly a nut free environment so please be mindful of this when packing lunch boxes.

Have a great weekend,

Ms. Yeend & Ms. Tiana

Hello RTH & RLY families,

Welcome to the beginning of term four, we are so excited for this last term together and are looking forward to what this term brings!

Literacy:

This week in word study we reflected on what a consonant is, what a vowel is and what a digraph is when beginning the term. We then learnt the /a/ sound, focusing on the use of ‘ai’ and ‘ay’ when spelling out words. We blended and segmented these words and then placed them into sentences. We also continued to learn new heart words, they were ‘do’, ‘did’ and ‘not’, looking at past and present tense. In bookmaking, we began a new focus on stories of our lives. Through this we will reflect on life events, celebrations, holidays and so forth to write about.

Mathematics:

In mathematics, we have begun to look at measurement. We have learnt different core words to discuss measurement and have focused on the attributes of items when measuring them. This involved: ‘capacity’, ‘height’, ‘mass’ and so forth. We did this by making connections to real life and collected data within discovering different measurements.

Technology:

Throughout technologies this week we looked at structures, discussed what structures are and looked at famous structures are around the world. We then created our own cylinder structure that had to be freestanding.

Arts:

This week in art we explored First Nations Australian’s observations of external features of living things and how these are replicated through traditional dance. We then made head masks of animals.

Health:

In health, we reflected on our ability to remember and the importance of having good observation skills and remembering what we can during situations. We then reflected on the importance of remembering names, addresses and telephone numbers.

HaSS:

This week in HaSS, we looked at gaining understandings of country and place, along with its importance to First Nation Australians. We looked at where Holy Family is located and the importance of the location to the traditional custodians. We did this through looking at maps, drawing and having discussions.

Science:

In science, we talked about what a scientist is and what they do. We then learnt key science-based vocabulary and looked at different famous scientists from around the world.

Religion:

In religion this week we focused on being mindful and understandings that nature is God’s gift for everyone. We started by practicing mindfulness and then went on a nature walk around the school and discussed what we can see and how we view God’s creations.

REMINDERS:

Reading at home:

Please don’t feel pressured to read with your children at home as we would like this to be a fun experience for you both however, if you are able to, it would support your children’s learning greatly if you could find some time to enjoy a picture book together or work on their readers.

Nuts:

We have children with anaphylaxis in our classrooms and Nutella poses a danger to their health. We are strictly a nut free environment so please be mindful of this when packing lunch boxes.

Have a great weekend,

Ms. Yeend & Ms. Tiana

Hello RLY and RTH families and welcome to the end of Term 3!!!! We can hardly believe we only have one more term with our amazing classes!

We spent this week:

• Consolidating our learning from the term and year so far
• Cleaning our classrooms and resources to show respect for our things and take pride in our environment
• Farewelling Ms. Tye!
• Playing across both classrooms to build and extend connections
• Doing the COLOUR RUN!!!!

Quick reminder that Term 4 is back to the summer uniform and all children must bring hats for yard play and will be supplied with sunscreen in class unless you would like to bring in your own.

We look forward to seeing you all for our final term together and wish all of our families a happy and safe break!

Ms. Yeend and Ms. Tiana.

Hello RTH & RLY Families,

We are only one week away from holidays, so here is our week of learning that recapped our term…

Literacy:

This week in word study we began to reflect on what we have learnt throughout the term. This involved connecting starting sounds to words, writing previously learnt sounds on whiteboards, constructing sentences and writing CVC, CCVC & CVCC words that we have learnt. In book making we focused on suing big and bold writing in our books for important information, looked at fact boxes and the importance of using accurate colour in our drawings to ensure our pictures are accurate.

Mathematics:

In mathematics this week we looked at shapes, focusing on 2D shapes. We reviewed what we know about shapes, we sorted shapes, went for a shape nature walk, constructed our own shapes and then were able to create pictures with shapes.

Health:

In health, we reviewed personal skills, social skills, protective behaviours, children’s rights and help-seeking strategies. We discussed respectful social skills when interacting, understanding the purpose of protective behaviours and applying this health focused information in our lives.

Religion:

This week we looked at different faiths and traditions again, focusing on other holy books. We discussed why different religions have different holy books, the importance of them and why they are special to their given religion.

HaSS:

In HaSS this week we focused on the fact that we are living on Indigenous land that holds significance to First Nations Australians. We discussed our noticing’s of Kaurna Land and looked at a First Nations Australians map of Australia.

Technologies/Arts:

This week in technologies in arts we completed STEAM challenges. We applied our technologies and arts knowledge to different STEAM challenges, ranging from testing strengths, gravity, ability to build and so on.

Science:

In science, we looked at students’ knowledge about materials and properties of clothing. We spoke about the different benefits of different materials and then selected items that we would pack in our suitcase if we were going camping.

REMINDERS:

Reading at home:

Please don’t feel pressured to read with your children at home as we would like this to be a fun experience for you both however, if you are able to, it would support your children’s learning greatly if you could find some time to enjoy a picture book together or work on their readers.

Nuts:

We have children with anaphylaxis in our classrooms and Nutella poses a danger to their health. We are strictly a nut free environment so please be mindful of this when packing lunch boxes.

Colour Run:

Colour run is next week on Thursday, students are asked to wear a white t-shirt as they will be sprayed with washable paint during the colour run.

Spring Fair Donations:

We have our spring fair upcoming, and the reception cohort are seeking donations for our cookie decorating stall. Families are not expected nor required to provide a donation, but if you are able to it would be greatly appreciated. Items we are after are:

• Party Mix Lollies
• Cookie Decorations
• Serviettes
• Plastic Cups/Bowls
• Small Marshmallows
• Milk Arrowroot/Marie Biscuits (or similar biscuit)

Have a great weekend and see you for our last week, next week!

Ms. Yeend, Ms. Tiana and Ms. Tye

Hello RTH & RLY Families,

Welcome to the end of Week 8, here’s a quick recap of our week…

Literacy:

In word study this week we reflected on the ‘ng’ digraph and then moved on to ‘wh’, figuring out different words that involve these digraphs, words that rhyme with these digraphs and implementing words with these digraphs into sentences. In bookmaking, we continued with our new spotlight of ‘information texts’, this involved talking about different topics, the different types of words we can use to share information and implementing double page spreads.

Mathematics:

We continued with our part-whole operations this week, by connecting our addition and subtraction knowledge with different materials. This looked like adding and subtracting with number lines, number bonds, ten frames and through art. We concluded the week with an assessment of this unit of work and next week we will be moving on to shapes!

Health:

In health this week we reflected on identifying different parts of our body and using the correct terms to name them. This may spark a conversation at home so please feel free to come speak to us if you have any questions.

Religion:

In religion this week we finished an assessment on our understanding of celebrations within the Catholic Church.

HaSS/Tech/Arts:

In HaSS we continued our assessment by drawing a Birds Eye view map of Log Park. We then added in and designed our own nature play ideas in the area and then turned these plans into a 3D model – they looked amazing and it was so much fun!

Science:

In science this week we looked at magnetic materials and tested our magnets against different materials.

REMINDERS

Reading at home:

Please don’t feel pressured to read with your children at home as we would like this to be a fun experience for you both however, if you are able to, it would support your children’s learning greatly if you could find some time to enjoy a picture book together or work on their readers.

Nuts:

We have children with anaphylaxis in our classrooms and Nutella poses a danger to their health. We are strictly a nut free environment so please be mindful of this when packing lunch boxes.

Casual clothes day Friday 20th September:

LET’S BRING THE FOOTY FINALS ALIVE!

DRESS IN THE COLOURS OF YOUR CHOSEN TEAM!

PLEASE BRING A DONATIONS OF UNOPENED PACKET OF PANTRY NEEDS, TOILETRIES, KITCHEN, ETC FOR OUR SPRING FAIR HAMPERS!

Ms. Yeend, Ms. Tiana and Ms. Tye