Hello RTH & RLY Families,

Welcome to the end of week 5! We can’t believe we are almost halfway through term 1!

This week both classes met their buddy class for the first time. It was so lovely to meet some of the older children here and make connections. These relationships will support the reception children when playing in the yard as they now have older children they can look to and who can help them during recess and lunch!

Literacy:

This week we focused on the graphemes and phonemes of ‘Nn’ and ‘Dd’. Through the other graphemes and phonemes, we have learnt over the past four weeks we were able to remain consistent with our focus on CVC words. We focused on words such as ‘nap’, ‘dip’, ‘tap’ and so forth. This continued with a focus on syllables and rhyming also, to build further literacy knowledge. We engaged in bookmaking where students continued to write their books, focusing on ensuring each page is used, re-reading work and so on. Lastly, we continued with our playful literacy where we read, write, and engage in play together.

Numeracy:

We worked towards counting from 0-20 this week, focusing on ensuring we are counting in correct order, recognising correlating amounts with number names, and counting backwards. We did this by creating our own number lines, number cards, playing number-based games, engaging in number-based stories and numeral display pictures to recognise numbers and the amounts within a number. We continued with our numeracy play to promote the recognition of numbers and to engage in play with others. We also practiced counting forwards and backwards from any number from 0-20 using a number generator!

We started some maths assessments this week as well with a focus on assessing where children are at with their numeral recognition, subitising, cardinality and partitioning.

Play Inquiry:

Students continued with their play inquiry each morning, supporting the transition into the classroom, and supporting the growing connections within the class. We have had a strong focus on ensuring play inquiry is meaningful and has connections to their other learning areas.

Technologies/Science:

We integrated technologies with literacy this week and children filmed their friends reading the books they made! Fair to say we got a lot of videos of the floor and the roof but it was such a fun experience!

This week we went on a scavenger hunt through the school grounds looking for living and non living things, it was so much fun to explore and go digging for beetles and bugs!

Health:

This week we discussed safe and unsafe situations and how to keep ourselves safe at all times. We talked about warning signs, safer strangers, safer buildings and practiced saying ‘NO!’ with a loud brave voice!

HaSS:

This week we talked about our own safe place and what that looks like and feels like. Some children chose their homes, others chose the beach and some even chose school!

Religion:

We spoke this week about compassion and what this means and looks like and kept a focus on families and caring relationships.

Important Information:

Photos

• We have a belonging photo wall of students with their families where we are slowly growing our photos of children with their families. We ask that you bring in a photo or email a photo of your child and their family for our belonging wall with some information about you all.

Assembly

• RTH & RLY has an assembly in week 7. We are focusing on the diversity that Holy Family encompasses. For our assembly, we were hoping that either RTH & RLY teachers could record the students discussing their culture if permitted or if families could send in a video of their child discussing their culture and one of their favourite things about their culture as the compilation of videos will be shared within our assembly.

We can’t wait to see you in week six!

Ms. Yeend and Ms. Tiana