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

Hello RLY and RTH families and welcome to the end of week 6!

Here’s a little snapshot of what we got up to this week…

Literacy:

Now that we have covered the basic alphabetic principle (all 26 letters and sounds!), we have begun our revision of these before we begin to move in to digraphs. We reviewed our heart words so far, all letters and sounds, rhyme, syllabification, CVC words and interactive writing.

We also began our new spotlight study in Bookmaking which is: Ways to Add Words to Our Books! We have focused on using Headings (info text), speech bubbles and big and bold writing.

Mathematics:

This week we started our new unit of work on Data. We learnt what data is, how to display it, different types of graphs, and how to interpret and analyse it!

Health:

We spoke this week about ‘bullying’. We discussed what bullying looks and feels like, how we can support each other, and what to do if it happens to us or our friends.

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 finished our unit of work on how things move by deciding which objects would roll, bounce or slide.

Religion:

We focused on how our school is a Catholic school and went for a walk to discuss any Catholic symbols we could see in our community.

Technologies:

This week we explored design and technologies by making our own houses for the three little pigs using either straw, sticks or bricks! We loved it!

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!

We look forward to seeing you next Wednesday and enjoy your extra long weekend at home!

Ms Yeend and Ms Tiana

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,

This week felt a little bit busy! Unfortunately Ms. Yeend was away sick from Tuesday to Thursday which meant RLY was lucky to have a few different teachers! Here is a brief update about what we got up to…

Literacy:

This week we looked at the new graphemes and phonemes of ‘Yy’ & ‘Xx’. We practiced these letters and used them in CVC words to deepen our understandings. The new word of ‘you’ was introduced this week and was added to our heart word list. We became letter investigators and sorted words containing the letter ‘y’ followed by searching for them in books we read in class.

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 ten to help solidify understandings. As a class we did various addition and subtraction sums both written and through play. We also looked at addition using our fingers and how to use a ten frame to help us solve equations.

Health:

This week we looked at what a relationship circles is and who we would have in ours. We then created our own version of a relationship circle and discussed the important and safe people in our lives.

HaSS:

In the lead up to interviewing a family member as a part of HaSS, we looked at what interviews are, what kinds of questions are usually asked and why people do them.

Science:

Continuing on from our previous learning in Science about how things move, we investigated items that roll and don’t roll. We posed wonderings and hypothesised as well as justified our ideas using scientific vocabulary.

Religion:

We watched a video containing a lot of information about Catholic history and then did a group brainstorm after the video to talk about the prominent Catholic history we know of what we learnt about in the video. We then chose one part of Catholic history and drew that in our learning journals.

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. 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!

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.

Mission Day:

Next Friday is Mission Day! We will be hosting a lucky dip stall in the Piazza and you are welcome to join you children from 1:30pm. Here are some helpful details:

• Students will only be able to use tokens to purchase items and participate in the activities, as we do not take money at the stalls.  The purchase of tokens will be available on Friday 31 May from the class teachers or by pre-purchasing the tokens through the QKR! App (this is our preferred option).
• Tokens are available in 10c portions with a page of tokens costing $5.
• All money raised for Mission Week will go to St Vincent de Paul, Catherine House and Catholic Charities.
• We will also be asking families to bring in a can of soup/non-perishable food to donate to Fred’s Van.
• N.B. Students are to be in SCHOOL UNIFORM on Mission Day.

We look forward to seeing you for Week 5 and hope you have a wonderful weekend with your loved ones!

Ms. Yeend and Ms. Tiana.

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.

Welcome to the end of term 2!

This week we explored…

Literacy:

Continuing with our spotlight focus for bookmaking on Mo Willems, we looked at drawing Elephant and Piggie! We then used this knowledge, and the understanding of the different literary conventions Mo Willems uses in his books to put them into action in our own! We’re even starting to add words to our books that make sense to the ready with the illustrations!

We learnt a new letter/sound: Ww. We added a new heart word to our list: She/she. Then we used our new heart word and the letter W to write sentences together in our English books and illustrate them.

Maths:

We completed our unit of work on patterning this week and now know what the core is of a pattern, what an AB, ABC, AABB, AAB and ABB patterns are! Next week we will start our new unit of work on part-whole operations, looking at addition and subtraction.

Health:

We learnt about our rights as humans and special rights as children – please feel free to talk with your children about these – they are the 12 rights of the child, and guess what? One of their rights is to PLAY!

HaSS:

We learnt about who is in our community and the different types of communities we are a part of.

Science:

Continuing from our learning last week about how objects move, we explored how our bodies move! We did this through a game with flash cards where we had to make our bodies move in the way that the person in the picture is!

Religion:

This week we learnt about Pentecost. We learnt that Pentecost took place after Jesus had died and was raised to new life by God and returned to heaven, leaving the disciples on their own.

Technologies/ArtS:

We continued our learning about drawing on the iPads and used this to retell the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.

We look forward to seeing you all return for Week 3!

Ms. Yeend and Ms. Tiana.

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 RLY and RTH children and families and welcome to the END OF TERM 1!!!!

We can’t quite believe that we are already about to celebrate the end of our first term of school! Ms Yeend and Ms Tiana are both extremely proud of how well the children have all settled in to school and can’t wait to see what Term 2 will bring!

This week we focused on integrating all of our learning in each subject area over the term to solidify and re-visit our new knowledge before the break.

We also had our very first sports day that saw the Cream team as the victors! What a special and fun day!

Thank you to all of the children and families for a very successful and fun first term. We hope you have a great two weeks together and will be ready to welcome you back on Monday 29th April.

Ms Yeend and Ms Tiana.

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 9 and have had a learning filled week where we have strengthened our knowledge and learnt new things!

Literacy:

Throughout week 9 RTH and RLY have learnt the graphemes and phonemes of ‘Hh’ and ‘Bb’. 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 ‘to’ and this week’s word: ‘on’.

Numeracy:

This week we focused on position and location and used our classroom to hide in areas and then describe the position (on top of, under, between etc) and location (table, chairs, books etc). We have been using the book Rosie’s Walk to explore these positional and locational words and practiced using a map representing the narrative of the book.

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 also did an activity where children were asked to cut and glue a bunny on to a plate as an Easter activity that also linked to the technology curriculum where children extend their cutting and gluing skills.

HaSS:

This week for HaSS we explored our identities through creating an identity collage where we drew images of the things we liked and cut out pictures from magazines.

Health:

This week we explored what an emergency is. We discussed the phone number to call and the different types of emergency services we have to help us. We also drew a picture of an emergency and the resolution (fire, ambulance, police).

Religion:

For Holy Week we discussed the importance of each day and did a stations of the cross activity where we walked around the school and re-told the story of Jesus’ crucifixion. We also had a JP liturgy in the hall on Thursday where children took part in remembering Jesus’ story.

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 and we hope you all have a happy and safe Easter!

Ms. Tiana & Ms. Yeend