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

Hello RTH & RLY Families,

We are almost at the end of our first term, and we are so proud of how everyone has learn’t new things, grown, and developed within the first term!

Literacy:

This week we learnt the graphemes and phonemes of ‘Ll’ and ‘Uu’.  We looked back at last week’s graphemes and phonemes also as both this week and last were short. We continued with our book making each week and reached the end of our craft study focus, working towards using speech bubbles, giving characters emotions and so on. We continued with our focus on CVC and high frequency words; along with working on rhyme, syllables and blending of words.

Numeracy:

We continued position and location through applying ourselves throughout the school yard. This allowed for students to place themselves ‘next to’ objects, ‘under’ objects, ‘in between’ objects and so on. This allowed us to work on a position and location book where we were able to draw objects based on a verbal positional location.

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/HaSS:

We continued our work with iPads in technologies and began to make social stories through our ability to understand a text and take a relational photo. We used Holy Family’s behavioural plan and have begun to turn it into a social story as a reception cohort to add more meaning for all the students.

Science:

This week in science we applied our comprehension knowledge in our books. To do this we listened to a text about habitats, as this has been a large focus the past few weeks and then drew something we remembered from the story in our books. This helped reinforce our knowledge of habitats.

Health:

We continued with emergencies this week but had a focus on what an emergency may look like in school. We brainstormed different possible emergencies (a friend is hurt, a lockdown etc.) and once again drew a possible emergency and the resolution in our books (get a teacher, follow instructions etc.).

Religion:

This week we focused on celebrating Jesus’ resurrection through reflecting on Easter and reminding ourselves it’s the season where Jesus rose from the dead. We reflected on the story as a class and read a scripture to better understand Jesus’ resurrection and then drew a picture of Jesus resurrected in their books.

We look forward to a fun filled last week of term one together next week!

Ms. Tiana & Ms. Yeend

Hello RTH & RLY Families,

We have reached the end of week 8 and have had a learning filled week where we have strengthened our knowledge and learnt new things!

Literacy:

Throughout week 8 RTH and RLY have learnt the graphemes and phonemes of ‘Cc’ and ‘Rr’. 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 ‘that’ and this week’s word: ‘to’.

Numeracy:

We continued our work with shapes and have begun to focus on how shapes are all around us. This was done through going on a ‘shape nature hunt’ to see what shapes we could discover around the school, along with a shape hunt in the classroom; and lastly, we did shape stations. Our shape stations allowed students to work with and play with shapes to strengthen their understandings of shapes.

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 then engaged in drawing what plants need to live, focusing on details such as: water, air, sun etc.

HaSS/Art:

This week we combined HaSS and art due to it being Harmony Week this week. We discussed the importance of Harmony Week and the values it holds. We strengthened our understandings through doing Harmony Week questions where we were able to discover differences between people, along with similarities. We finished this lesson off with having the whole class stick their handprint in a heart shape to show that everyone belongs.

Health:

We spoke about risk taking through what risks look like, feel like and sound like. We then drew risks in our books.

Religion:

This week we created a door craft with our buddy class for Palm Sunday. We were able to discover what Palm Sunday is and why Palm Sunday is important.

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!

Ms. Tiana & Ms. Yeend

Hello RTH & RLY Families,

As we reach the end of week 6, we have continued to grow with our buddies in the upper primary classes. Buddies often come to help us prepare for our assembly that will be happening next week!

Literacy:

This week we focused on the graphemes and phonemes of ‘Gg’ and ‘Oo’. We reflected on our past graphemes and phonemes to help us continue blending sounds to make CVC words. We were able to reflect on our weekly poem to support the understandings of our graphemes and phonemes, along with support the ability to rhyme. We worked towards the high frequency word ‘that’ and reflected on the previous weeks word of ‘the’ to support our reading and spelling in class.

Numeracy:

We engaged in our last week’s focus on numbers for the term and solidified our understandings of counting both forwards and backwards, this was done through hands on tasks. Along with this we worked on conservation, one-to-one correspondence and subitising. We engaged in activities such as playdough counting, ‘how many pieces of pasta’ and then moved on to counting amounts of money. Throughout the numeracy play time, used to solidify understandings that are taught during lessons; we were able to complete the maths assessments for counting in term one! We are excited to start a new topic next week!

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 and literacy again, having RTH film their friends reading their books during book making and also allowed students to explore the ‘draw and tell’ application to further understand the technology provided.

Within science we continued our focus on living things and begun an. Observations/investigation about an animal of their choice from the MUDLA. We will create a piece of work over the coming weeks showcasing what their chosen animal needs to survive.

HaSS:

This week we focused on our home through a larger lens. We looked at the world map and was able to distinguish that we are currently situated in Australia and then were able to discuss the varying cultures in our class.

Health:

We spoke about safety signs and the importance of understanding safety signs either at home, at school, on the road and so forth. We went for a walk around the school and were on the lookout for safety signs, we were able to find many safety signs around the school. We then came back to class and painted a safety sign of the student’s choice.

Religion:

We looked at the importance of the sign of the Cross and make connections on the relationship between this sign and prayer.

Assembly:

Our assembly is next week from 9:00AM-9:40AM on Friday the 15^th of March. We invite families to come and view RTH & RLY’s first assembly for the year in the hall.

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.

Hello RTH & RLY Families,

We have reached the end of the fourth week and have officially completed the first month of school for the year! Everyone has become comfortable in the classroom space, the people around them and the expectations being set. We are continuing to build our relationships and delve deeper into the curriculum once again.

Literacy:

This week we focused on the graphemes and phonemes of ‘Ii’ and ‘Mm’. Through the other graphemes and phonemes, we have learnt over the past three weeks we were able to remain consistent with our focus on CVC words. We focused on words such as ‘mat’, ‘sit’, ‘tip’ and so forth. The 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.

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 have continued to water the grass heads and are continuing to monitor them every morning to see if there are any changes in the growth. We have documented this through capturing the growth in the students learning journals and will continue to update this as changes occur.

Health:

We spoke about our strengths and how we can share strengths and have personal strengths. After discussion we drew our strengths in our books.

HaSS:

This week we had a focus on the importance of our names and spoke about how our name makes us who we are. We then coloured in a mindfulness name sheet, individualised to each student with their name.

Religion:

We focused on Jesus’ love through caring relationships and shared our own personal relationships such as family and friends. We then made a popstick house where the students drew their families in the house.

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 five!

Ms. Yeend and Ms. Tiana

Hello RTH & RLY Families,

As our second week of school comes to an end, we can confidently say we are so proud in all the children’s growth and comfortability within the classroom and the school yard that has occurred over the past week. We have loved getting to know all the children and can’t wait to see what they achieve for the rest of the year.

Literacy:

This week we had a strong focus on beginning our bookmaking, introducing the children to books and building their knowledge on what is involved in a book. Along with this we began our focus on sounds and letters, working with the letters ‘S’ & ‘A’. We continued with our playful literacy where we continued to read together, work on writing our names and engage in social play to continuously build skills.

Numeracy:

We kept continued with our 1-10 numeral counting and subitising this week and worked towards the recognition of numerals also. The children also engaged in their numeracy play where they worked with mathematical tools to engage in play with others.

Play Inquiry:

Students continued with their play inquiry each morning, supporting the engagement in classroom resources and new relationships being built with all students.

Technologies/Science:

We had a focus on living/non-living things and students used iPads to collects data through taking photos on what is living and what is not.

Health:

Students worked towards understanding what actions and consequences are.

HaSS:

The focus surrounded ‘Who Am I?’, allowing students to engage in a game where they discuss their likes and dislikes, seeing who else in the classroom may share similar thoughts.

Religion:

We focused on emotions and feelings through reading a story in class and discussed the emotions/feelings we noticed throughout the story.

Important Information:

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.

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.