Hello RTH & RLY Families,

We have reached the end of week 9 and have had a learning filled week where we have strengthened our knowledge and learnt new things!

Literacy:

Throughout week 9 RTH and RLY have learnt the graphemes and phonemes of ‘Hh’ and ‘Bb’. We continuously reflect on our previous phonemes and graphemes from previous weeks to strengthen our understandings to continue to make CVC words. We have focused on the use of vowels in CVC words also. We have continued to rhyme, clap syllables and blend words to build our literary knowledge. Lastly, we have been focusing on our high frequency words once again with a focus on last week’s word of ‘to’ and this week’s word: ‘on’.

Numeracy:

This week we focused on position and location and used our classroom to hide in areas and then describe the position (on top of, under, between etc) and location (table, chairs, books etc). We have been using the book Rosie’s Walk to explore these positional and locational words and practiced using a map representing the narrative of the book.

Play Inquiry:

Students engaged in play inquiry each morning, with a strong focus on our literacy work. This supported students’ relationships in the classroom and connected with the focus on CVC words, our graphemes and phonemes of the week and building a love of reading through the use of books.

Technologies/Science:

This week we continued our living things focus through looking further into the habitats of their chosen animal from the previous week. We were able to individually take photos of the animals chosen in their habitat, where we were able to reflect on our ability to understand habitats and the technological ability of taking clear and precise photos through placing the photos taken on a slideshow. We then reflected on each photo as a class.

We also did an activity where children were asked to cut and glue a bunny on to a plate as an Easter activity that also linked to the technology curriculum where children extend their cutting and gluing skills.

HaSS:

This week for HaSS we explored our identities through creating an identity collage where we drew images of the things we liked and cut out pictures from magazines.

Health:

This week we explored what an emergency is. We discussed the phone number to call and the different types of emergency services we have to help us. We also drew a picture of an emergency and the resolution (fire, ambulance, police).

Religion:

For Holy Week we discussed the importance of each day and did a stations of the cross activity where we walked around the school and re-told the story of Jesus’ crucifixion. We also had a JP liturgy in the hall on Thursday where children took part in remembering Jesus’ story.

Quick Reminder:

If you are running late to pick your child up, we please ask you ring the front office so they can contact us to let us know. That way we can take the student to the office as class ends at 3pm each day.

Thankyou for your continuing support and we hope you all have a happy and safe Easter!

Ms. Tiana & Ms. Yeend