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

Hello RTH and RLY families,

We hope you all enjoyed week seven!

Literacy:

We have continued to reflect on our learnings over the term, this included our letters, our sounds, sentence structures, heart words and ability to blend our words. We worked together on reflecting, writing and spelling different sounds and letters to bring all of our learning together.

We also continued with our book making with a focus on ‘Ways to Add Words to out Books’. As a class we reflected on all the ways we can add words into our books from last week and added other ideas such as onomatopoeia, being brave spellers and so forth.

Mathematics:

This week we wrapped up our focus on data and worked on reflecting what ‘most’, ‘least’ and ‘average’ means. Along with this we created graphs as a class and independently to solidfy our understandings of data.

Health:

This week we reflected on people who are safe to us and worked on understanding the meaning of trust. To do this we created a trust network with our most trusted people involved.

HaSS:

This week we continued with celebrations but had a focus on things we celebrate and reflected on what we do, why it is important and why we celebrate specific celebrations.

Science:

This week in science we moved on to the movement of bouncing and investigated different things that bounce.

Religion:

This week we reflected on the Catholic religion and looked at other religions again, discussing what religion may consist of, how religions vary and sacred symbols within different religions.

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!

Shorter Week:

Unfortunately, due to the public holiday, pupil free day and Ms. Tiana having a day off, there are not as many photos this week! This will not be the case going forwards but is due to this week’s circumstances.

We look forward to week 8!

Ms. Tiana & Ms. Yeend

Welcome RTH & RLY families,

We have officially made it to half way through the term and are so proud of everyone’s determination and growth throughout this year so far!

Literacy:

This week we focused on ‘Zz’ and ‘Qq’, we practiced these in our books and did some letter investigations with these phonemes and graphemes to deepen our understandings. We worked on our understandings of CVC words and continued to work on our syllables and rhymes.

We also continued with our author study, focusing on Mo Willems. We have reached the end of our author study and have implemented all the ideas we have learnt from Mo Willems into our books. Next week we will move on to a new focus!

Mathematics:

This week we have finished our part-whole operations focus! We wrapped up this unit with focusing on differences and totals, addition and subtraction up to 10 and using a number line to help grow our ability to add and subtract.

Health:

We focused on ‘non-blaming language’ this week and worked towards ways of taking responsibility for our feelings and actions.

HaSS:

This week we focused on celebrations and reflected on the diverse celebrations within our classrooms. We looked at various celebrations and the importance of those celebrations.

Science:

This week in science we conducted a science experiment where we looked at how the shape of an object can affect the way it can roll. We used multiple different objects and rolled them down a ramp to see what objects roll and why they roll.

Religion:

We focused on the history of Jesus’ miracles this week, reflecting on what miracles are and then looking at many of the miracles Jesus has done. Students then had an opportunity to create a paper cut out of Jesus.

Technologies:

This week in technologies we used digital systems to organise information and ideas from the book, ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We created pictures and wrote text to retell the story.

Mission Day:

We also celebrated Mission Week this week and students had the opportunity to engage in different stalls created by classrooms to raise money for Catholic charities. Students were able to spend their afternoon throughout the school, engaging in activities of their choosing and had a blast!

REMINDERS:

Crows Kickstart

Each Tuesday from 3:30-4:30 the Adelaide Crows Football Club are doing a kickstart program each week to help students build their football skills. This is free for families once registered if you choose to do so.

Try at Home Books

This week we have attached a new focus on our ‘try at home books’, with new letters and words to focus on through the next few weeks. 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 really just an opportunity for your children to share their learning with you. You don’t need to add anything to/write in these books!

Hello RTH & RLY families,

We had such as busy week this week, we focused on..

Literacy:

This week we looked at the new graphemes and phonemes of ‘Jj’ & ‘Vv’. We practiced these letters and used them in CVC words to deepen our understandings. The new word of ‘it’ was introduced this week and was added to our heart word list.

We also continued with our author focus of Mo Williems, we have now looked at all his major stories and are able to break down different ideas as a class to put into our own books. This looks like: extended speech bubbles, extra movement lines and much more.

Mathematics:

This week we moved on to part-whole operations, with the focus on addition and subtraction. We did this by focusing on sums up to five to help solidify understandings. As a class we did various addition and subtraction sums both written and through play.

Health:

We looked at relationships and looked at different types of relationships in people’s lives such as family, friends and so on. We then spoke about different relationships and students then drew their family in their books.

HaSS:

Continuing on from health, this week’s HaSS focus was on family also. We drew our family tree of our immediate family. We first did an exemplar on the board, and then took to attempting our own!

Science:

We reflected on movements from last week and discussed different types of movements in different sports. Students then drew what movements they do at recess and lunch in their books.

Religion:

This week we looked at Catholic symbols and discussed the importance of individual symbols and why we should know about the symbols within the Catholic religion. We then moved on to crafting our own Catholic symbol out of various crafting materials.

Technologies/Arts:

This week we continued our learning about drawing on the iPads with a focus on ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, focusing on a specific page that we had to recreate.

REMINDER:

Try At Home Books

This week we have attached a new focus on our ‘try at home books’, with new letters and words to focus on through the next few weeks.

Crows Kickstart

Each Tuesday from 3:30-4:30 the Adelaide Crows Football Club are doing a kickstart program each week to help students build their football skills. This is free for families once registered if you choose to do so.

Hello RTH & RLY Families,

Welcome back to a new term of reception! We hope you all had a lovely break!

Literacy:

This week we reviewed some of our graphemes and phonemes from last term. These were ‘Ss’, ‘Aa’, ‘Tt’, ‘Pp’, ‘Ii’, ‘Nn’, ‘Mm’, ‘Oo’, ‘Pp’, ‘Cc’, ‘Bb’ & ‘Uu’. We used these letters to make CVC words and have been using them in the construction of sentences. We introduced a new high frequency word: ‘he’ and have been reviewing last terms words of: ‘and’, ‘I’, ‘the’, ‘in’, ‘on’, ‘that’, ‘this’, ‘and’ & ‘to’. We also introduced the author Mo Willems to both of the classes and looked at some of the books he has written/illustrated and have been implementing some ideas into our own books.

Numeracy/Art:

We began the week with a quick reflection on numbers and shapes from last term. We then moved on to our new focus of patterns. Students were taught what ‘AB’ and ‘ABC patterns are and have had time to make patterns both inside and outside of the classroom. We used our ideas of ABC patterns to relate to one of our texts, ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and then created our own caterpillar with an ‘ABC’ pattern.

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:

We continued our work with iPads in technologies this term but have begun to focus on specific apps. This week we used ‘sketchesschool’ and created drawings with different tools to draw, erase, save and write on this new app.

HaSS:

This week we looked at who is important to individual students. We discussed different relationships such as family, friends, and acquaintances, focusing on why some people are important to someone. We then communicated why specific individuals are important to us.

Science:

This week in science we looked at movement and compared how different objects move, such as: balls, blocks, toys, and craft objects. This allowed for students to see different ways objects move and compare why and how certain objects move the way they do.

Health:

We looked at the differences in needs and wants. As a class we were able to discuss the difference between needs and wants, then creating a checklist of things an animal would need, rather than want. Students were then able to draw their ideas down.

Religion:

This week we focused on why church is important and what the details they can remember about church. We were able to relate love, relationships, the Bible, and various other things with church. Once this was established students drew a church and then what church consists of next to the church.

We had a great first week back and can’t wait for another week of fun filled learning!

Next week we will be sending home an ‘at home’ learning package, this will be completely optional and provides opportunities for further learning if your child would like to do so.

Ms. Tiana & Ms. Yeend