PHOTO GALLERY & Classroom Learning

K - Yr 6 Snapshots

PHOTOS

Easter Prayer Assemblies

Stage 3

Stage 2

Infants

Easter Egg Hunt

Year 5 Science

Brad Killen

Thank you Brad for talking to Stage 3 about the Law & Safety

Yr 2-6 Cross Country & Our New Shade Shelters

CLASSROOM NEWS

Kindergarten are learning to make words!

Kindergarten students are so excited to be learning to read. We now have enough letter sounds to put together to make words! We have been working hard with listening and identifying the initial and ending sounds of words. We are using sound boxes to help us write two and three-sound words.

In Math we have been reading and representing numerals to 20. We had lots of fun investigating number lines, number charts and using many different concrete materials to represent numbers.

Here are a few parent tips you may wish to use to help your child.

Go on a number hunt together and discover places where numbers are used such as:

a clock
television
computer keyboard
calendar
telephones
car licence plates/road signs

Counting with your child at home

Encourage your child to count the number of pegs used to hang out the washing.
Count the number of steps from the front door to the letterbox.
Count the number of eggs in a carton, and again after some have been removed.
Count the number of times you and your child can throw a ball to each other without dropping it.
Read and talk about stories and rhymes that use numbers.
Sing songs and nursery rhymes that include numbers such as Five Little Ducks and Baa Baa Black Sheep.
Have your child count as far as they are able to go and then encourage them to join you while you continue counting.

English K-6

The NSW English syllabus aims to "...enable students to understand and use language effectively. Students learn to appreciate, reflect on and enjoy language, and make meaning in ways that are imaginative, creative, interpretive, critical and powerful." The teachers at St Joseph's understand that each student is unique, with different needs and interests, and they work together in stage teams to co-plan learning sequences that respond to those needs and interests. Of course, there are ways parents and carers can support their child's learning at home. The following guides, produced by the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) provide excellent information for parents and carers about what children learn in English and list many ways you can help support their learning at home.

Parent Information English Kindergarten.pdf

Parent Information English Year 1 -2.pdf

Parent Information English Year 3-6.pdf