Junior Learning Community
Grade 2 News
What a fantastic, busy and productive Term 3 we’ve had! We a very proud of all the children and their achievements.
Information regarding the Year 2 sleepover has been emailed to all families. This is a wonderful opportunity for the students and an important stepping stone in your child’s educational development, to transition into camps for the future. We are all looking forward to this night. If you have any questions, please speak to your child’s class teacher.
The children enjoyed hearing from a guest speaker on Friday. Miss Tedesco’s grandmother, Mrs Lazzarotto spoke to the children on Friday about changes she has witnessed and experienced during her lifetime. The children wrote questions as part of their history learning to ask Mrs Lazzarotto. We thank her for spending this time with us.
In Numeracy we have been enjoying learning about 2D Shapes and 3D objects, describing and identifying their features as well as using them to create a city scape. Please see the pictures below of students incredible and creative constructions.
Next Friday 19th September (on the last day of term), Grade 2 will be attending Weekday Mass at 11:30am. This is our opportunity, for the term, to attend mass as a cohort and we are also looking forward to having a visit from Father Junjun afterwards. Families and friends of Year 2 are welcome to join us.
We hope you all have a restful and enjoyable holiday and we look forward to seeing the kids back in Term 4 ready to finish of the year!
Grade 1 News
In Mathematics, students have been exploring how to share and group collections. They have been learning to organise items into arrays and use skip counting to find the total number. Additionally, students have been applying their grouping strategies to solve problems.
In Literacy, students have been learning about contractions and practising tricky words such as can’t, don’t, didn’t, couldn’t, wouldn’t, and shouldn’t. They have also been introduced to new trigraph spelling patterns, including /eer/ as in cheer, /ear/ as in ear, /air/ as in hair, and /_are/ as in beware.
Charism Day
The Grade One students enjoyed learning about the different house teams at St Joseph’s during our Charism Day on Monday. They took part in a variety of activities, created some artwork, and even enjoyed a special treat to celebrate the important people who helped shape St Joseph’s and contributed to the journey of our school becoming what it is today.
Week 9 Important Dates:
- Monday 15th September: Athletics Day
- Friday 19th September: Last Day of Term 3, Footy Colours Day, Assembly at 9am in Josephinum
