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
