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,

Welcome to the end of week 6! Here is a quick breakdown of what we did this week…

Literacy:

This week we continued with digraphs, focusing on ‘sh’, ‘ee’ and ‘th’. 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.

We started a new spotlight in bookmaking – ‘Information books: Write to teach your reader’. We delved deeper into headings, titles and diagrams.

Mathematics:

Continuing with our unit on part whole operations, this week we looked at ways to group collections, represent larger numbers using MAB blocks and practicing subitising, addition and subtraction.

Health:

This week we looked discussed the important difference between a happy surprise and a secret and how we can keep ourselves safe.

Religion:

In religion, we explored prayer and how this brings us closer go God. Please refer to an email from Anthony Terminello (APRIM) about what we will be teaching in weeks 8-10 in case you have any queries.

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 explored log park again and planned out what we would do if we could change the way it looks/add in new nature play ideas. We then drew these plans on the iPads.

Science:

This week in science, we finished our unit of work on materials by creating a boat out of provided materials and predicted whether it would float/the materials would be waterproof.

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.

NUTELLA:

We have children with anaphylaxis in our classrooms and Nutella poses a serious danger to their health. We are strictly a nut free environment so please be mindful of this when packing lunch boxes. 

RLY Assembly:

Well done to RLY for their amazing assembly today! The dancing was out of this world and we are all so proud of you!!

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 4!

We had a much better week with people feeling better. Please ensure if your child is feeling unwell to keep them home as Influenza is still going around.

Literacy:

This week we looked at the diagraphs of ‘ll’ and ‘ss’, 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 information books and the features to include in our own books.

Mathematics:

In maths, we continued our numbers to 20, looking at number lines, identifying more or less in a group, comparing and ordering numbers. This helped to support us to continue to count past twenty, moving up to 120! This week we explored counting forwards and backwards to 120 and different ways to represent numbers. The students enjoyed learning about base 10 (MAB) blocks and showing numbers through manipulative.

Health:

In health, we learnt how our bodies are private and that each person needs personal space. We explored how it feels and what to do when you feel unsafe.

Religion:

This week in religion we looked at how God shows love through Bible stories. After reading the Jesus feeds the 5000 story students drew a picture of a part of the story and explained how Jesus showed and shared love.

HaSS:

In HaSS, we are exploring features of places through birds eye view. the students looking at features of place through colour, shapes and boundaries. We are looking at areas of our school and what it looks like from a birds eyes view.

Art/Design:

This week we have shifted our focus from the Olympics to exploring different nature plays and what they consist of.  We then analysed log park and had a meeting about what we could change, add and adjust to make it better. Students collected natural materials and created a self portrait using the natural materials highlighting the feature of the face.

Science:

In science, we continued to look at different materials and how different objects are made from different materials. We used our five senses to describe an object. Outside we did some predicting about items that would sink and float and explore what makes this happen.  The students were engaged and enjoyed exploring different materials that would sink and float.

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!

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 to the end of Week 2, RTH & RLY families,

Here’s a little review of what we did in class this week…

Literacy:

This week we reflected on our previous learning of graphemes and phonemes. 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’re exploring the different literary conventions of a narrative versus an information text.

Mathematics:

This week we began our focus on numbers to 100, with reflection on numbers to 20. 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 hygiene and self-care.

Religion:

In religion this week, we explored the Bible as a sacred text.

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:

In Design we explored how brands use eye catching logos to sell their products, we then moved on to Arts where we used the flags of the countries in the Olympic Games and brainstormed how we could design our own flag that would be eye catching. With our theme being the Olympic Games for this integrated unit for the term across the two learning areas, we started watching races and events which was very fun and engaging!

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 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

Hello RTH and RLY families,

Welcome to the end of Term 2! We can’t quite believe we have already finished the first half of the year! We are so endlessly proud of the hard work and dedication the children have shown in settling in to school life and exploring new ideas and concepts through their learning. We feel extremely grateful to have the privilege of working with them all every day!

Here is a little recap of our last week:

Literacy:

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. We also discussed adding words that aren’t necessarily coming from a character and discussed how to write the story line.

Mathematics:

This week we did some revision of addition and subtraction to support this understanding before the school holidays. We did this through various craft activities and games.

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 stories written and spoken by Aboriginal peoples to support our understanding of NAIDOC week.

Science:

In science, we looked at various games played by Aboriginal peoples such as Koolchee Koolchee for NAIDOC week.

Religion:

This week we discussed Feast Days, what they are and how they are celebrated.

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!

We hope you have enjoy a much deserved break with your families and can’t wait to welcome you back for Term 3!

Ms. Yeend & Ms. Tiana

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,

Welcome to the end of week 8! Only two more weeks until the school holidays and we have officially finished half a year of Reception! Here’s a quick recap of our week:

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 also added some new heart words: ‘my’ and ‘they’.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 started our new unit of learning in Mathematics which is on ‘measurement’. We began by looking at different ways to measure things – formal and informal, length vs height, and explored sequencing events as a way of measuring our days.

Health:

This week we discussed what the words fair and unfair mean and how we can talk about these things with the people around us.

HaSS:

This week we have looked at family and memorable moments with them.

Science:

This week in science we moved on to the movement of bouncing and investigated different things that bounce and how different materials may have an impact.

Religion:

This week we discussed what religion is and discovered different ways in which different denominations practice their religion.

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 pre service 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 completing a day with us on Tuesday of Week 9 to meet everyone.
• 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