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, 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,

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 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 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,

What a jam-packed week we had, here is what it looked like…

Literacy:

In word study this week we reflected on the ‘th’ digraph and then moved on to ‘ch’, 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.

Health:

In health this week we reflected on identifying different parts of our body, concepts of personal space/boundaries and the recognising of safe and unsafe secrets. We reflected through dances, story time, flashcards and discussions.

Religion:

In religion this week we looked at celebrating faith, involving Easter, Christmas and so forth. Once gaining understandings on Catholic celebrations we created a celebration card based on the celebration of our choice.

HaSS:

In HaSS we began our assessment with drawing a bird’s eye view of log park that is accurate, along with naming the features that are in log park.

Technologies:

Throughout technologies we tied our HaSS assessment with our technologies assessment by beginning to design our own nature play area in log park.

Arts:

We have tied our HaSS and technologies assessment with our art assessment and began to create a 3D model of our 2D design of log park.

Science:

In science this week we reflected on what is waterproof/not waterproof and then 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.

Ms. Yeend, Ms. Tiana and Ms. Tye

Hello RTH & RLY Families,

We are officially halfway through term three and are so proud of all of the progress everyone has made not only this term, but also throughout the whole year!

Literacy:

This week we continued with digraphs, focusing on ‘zz’ and ‘qu’. We discussed different words that have the chosen digraphs in them, creating make believe words with these sounds, finding words that rhyme with the digraphs and creating sentences with the digraphs. We looked at books with our digraphs in them and then investigated books further, with a focus on titles, characters, techniques, and our thoughts on stories. Lastly, we continued with our book making and focused on how to read our books as a story or how to sound like an expert when reading a information text.

Mathematics:

Last week we finished our unit on numbers to 100, this week onwards we will be looking at part-whole operations! We focused on addition and subtraction up to 20, differences and totals; and sharing collections. We did this using concrete materials to help us share, add, subtract and share.

Health:

This week we looked at the types of touching that is okay, discussing the importance of personal boundaries, understanding other’s boundaries and the safe people around us.

Religion:

In religion, we looked at songs about Jesus and the importance of listening to songs about Jesus. We discussed how Jesus shows love through songs, our favourite song and understandings of Jesus’ stories.

HaSS:

This week in HaSS, we revisited the fact all places have features, features can be shown through symbols, birds eye views and pictorial maps. We then drew either a bird’s eye view or a pictorial map of a place that is special to us.

Art/Design:

In arts and design this week, we looked at First Nations Australian’s perspectives. We looked at dance and music in arts, discussing how First Nations Australian’s used music to share stories about the land, animals, people, dreamtime and so on. We then looked at a dance that shared a story of a moth’s lifestyle, then having an animal of our choosing and discussing how we would ‘dance a story’.

In design we looked at the importance of weaving in First Nations Australians cultures. We discussed how techniques needed to be applied to textiles to make clothes, bedding and so on. We then began to weave our own wool through fabric to discover the technique of weaving.

Science:

This week in science, we reviewed the past concepts learnt and then looked at materials that are waterproof. Once discussed, we created a raincoat for a teddy bear made out of materials provided with the hopes of it being waterproof.

REMINDERS

Try At Home Books

We have our ‘try at home books’, with this week’s letters and words to focus on through the next week. These books are just for casual reading with your children if you have the time and they want to, however don’t feel like you need to, we do so much in class! It’s just an opportunity for your children to share their learning with you. You don’t need to add anything to/write in these books!

Book Week

Book Week was this week, we have attached photos of everyone dressed up below.

RLY Assembly

RLY & their buddy class 6LF will be hosting the school assembly on Friday 30th August at 9am in the hall. All parents and families are welcome to attend!

Ms. Yeend, Ms. Tiana and Ms. Tye

Hello RTH & RLY Families,

Welcome to the end of week 3!

Unfortunately, not only Ms. Tiana and Ms. Yeend had caught the flu this week but as did many of the students in RTH and RLY. Therefore, there may not be as many photos this week due to our absence and student absence.

Please ensure if your child is feeling unwell to keep them home as Influenza is making its way throughout the class currently.

Literacy:

This week we looked at the diagraphs of ‘ck’ and ‘ff’, looking at how these sounds are used in words, creating words with these sounds, rhyming words with these sounds and creating sentences incorporating these sounds. We also had an intentional focus on shared reading, focusing on titles, characters, techniques used and much more. In bookmaking, we looked at different picture books reflecting on our shared reading and implementing those ideas into our own texts.

Mathematics:

In maths, we continued on our numbers to 20, looking at number lines, identifying one more or one less in a group, comparing and ordering numbers; along with an art activity to help solidify our understandings of numbers to 20. This will help support us to continue to count past twenty, slowly moving up to 100!

Health:

In health, we looked at out five senses again and out them to use by taking a walk around the school and talking about things we can see, touch, taste, hear and smell.

Religion:

This week in religion we looked at how God shows love through Bible stories. We then drew a picture of how we could show or share love in our own way.

HaSS:

In HaSS, we continued with our focus on features and looked at describing different places through shapes and colour, along with grouping different features by their colour.

Art/Design:

This week we continued with our focus on the Olympics and created our own sport arenas after having a brainstorm together as a class, focusing on details such as: pools needing lanes, diving boards, seats for spectators etc.

Science:

In science, we continued to look at different materials and how different objects are made from different materials. We did this by going on a material hunt around the school/class.

REMINDERS

Try At Home Books

We have our ‘try at home books’, with this week’s letters and words to focus on through the next week. These books are just for casual reading with your children if you have the time and they want to, however don’t feel like you need to, we do so much in class! It’s just an opportunity for your children to share their learning with you. You don’t need to add anything to/write in these books!

Book Week

Book Week is in week 5 of this term, due to the Friday of week 5 being a pupil free day, HFCS will celebrate Book Week on the Thursday of week 5. The theme for this year is “Reading is Magic”, where you will be able to showcase your costumes after our 9AM assembly, with a costume parade. We can’t wait to see everyone dressed up!

RTH Assembly

RTH & their buddy class, 5KF have had their assembly moved to next Friday! We have been beginning to plan and prepare and wanted to extend an invitiation to families if they are able to come! The assembly will take place on the 16th of August at 9AM.

We hope everyone gets some rest over the weekend and is feeling better next week!

Ms. Tiana & Ms. Yeend

Welcome back to term 3 RTH & RLY families,

We hope you had a lovely break over the school holidays and have all had a chance to relax and recharge! We have such an exciting term ahead and are excited for where it will take us.

Literacy:

This week we reflected on our previous learning, focusing on sounds and letters involving: ‘Ss’, ‘Aa’, Tt’, ‘Pp’, ‘Ii’, ‘Nn’ and many more. We looked at onset and rime, focusing on the way sounds and letters can create a word. This is helping put our previous learnings into practice. In book making, we are looking at different types of books we can make, with our first focus on nursery rhymes and information texts. We looked at ‘Humpty Dumpty’ and some informative texts with a focus on rhymes, characters, storyline, facts and patterns we notice.

Mathematics:

This week we began our focus on numbers to 100, with reflection on numbers to 10. This allowed us to represent numbers, write numerals, use number lines, use ten frames, compare numbers, create art based around numbers and apply them in everyday use throughout the school.

Health:

In health, we focused on body awareness; reminding everyone of what body parts are called and the importance of privacy. We then spoke about respecting other peoples personal space and labelled different body parts.

Religion:

In religion this week, we looked at bible stories to remind us that God loves us unconditionally. We then reflected on what this looks like and how we can recognise it, creating our own paper heart to represent Gods love.

HASS:

This week, we looked at recognising and recording features of familiar places. Focusing on what we see, touch and hear; helping us connect with our senses.

Art/Design:

We looked at the Olympic Games in art and design this week, focusing on both the Olympic games and Paralympic Games. We looked at the history, locations, events, countries the participate, medals and arenas. We then picked an event and drew an event of our choice and drew us participating in it in our books.

Science:

This week in science, we tied HASS to science and focused on using our senses to look, feel and behave. We looked at things such as liquids, fabrics, elastics and soft/hard items.

We have had such a great start to this term and look forward to what awaits!

REMINDER:

Try At Home Books

We have our ‘try at home books’, with this week’s letters and words to focus on through the next week. These books are just for casual reading with your children if you have the time and they want to, however don’t feel like you need to, we do so much in class! It’s just an opportunity for your children to share their learning with you. You don’t need to add anything to/write in these books!

Book Week

Book Week is in week 5 of this term, due to the Friday of week 5 being a pupil free day, HFCS will celebrate Book Week on the Thursday of week 5. The theme for this year is “Reading is Magic”, where you will be able to showcase your costumes after our 9AM assembly, with a costume parade. We can’t wait to see everyone dressed up!

Ms. Tiana & Ms. Yeend

Welcome back RTH and RLY families,

We have reached the end of week 9 and have one more week until we reach half a year of reception (and for some of the mid-years some last year, a whole year!)

Literacy:

We continued with reflecting on our learning of graphemes, phonemes, heart words, sentence structures, rhyming, blending and reading. We introduced a new heart word: ‘by’. We placed ‘by’ and an additional heart word into one sentence together, making sure our sentences make sense, sound right and follow typical conventions.

Within book making we have continued with our focus on ‘Ways to Add Words to our Books’. We spoke about ‘fancy’ ways we can write our words, onomatopoeia, using big and bold words and so forth.

Mathematics:

This week we continued with measurement, we were able to apply this to everyday life through sequencing our days of the week, sequencing stories and sequencing everyday tasks we complete.

Health:

In health, we looked at ways people use their power in fair and unfair ways, having discussions on ensuring we remain fair and use our power in positive ways.

HaSS:

This week we looked at Aboriginal celebrations and looked at dreamtime stories. We had a focus on ‘The Rainbow Serpent’ and drew our own rainbow serpent in our books.

Science:

In science, we continued with movement with a focus on sliding, we used our prediction skills before experimenting things that slide.

Religion:

This week we discussed what prayer is and why prayer is important, we wrapped this up by writing out a prayer card.

REMINDER:

Try At Home Books

We have our ‘try at home books’, with last week’s letters and words to focus on through the next week. These books are just for casual reading with your children if you have the time and they want to, however don’t feel like you need to, we do so much in class! It’s just an opportunity for your children to share their learning with you. You don’t need to add anything to/write in these books!

RLY:

We are fortunate to be welcoming a preservice teacher to our classroom soon! I will wait for her to introduce herself however a brief explanation:

• She will be completing her final placement of her teaching degree with us – four years of hard work have led up to this point!
• She will be in class on Tuesday and Wednesday of Week 10.
• She will commence teaching in the classroom from Week 3 in Term 3 until the end of Week 9 in Term 3.
• We are very excited to welcome her!

Ms. Yeend & Ms. Tiana