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 Home Inquiry

Rest and Play

It has been an exciting yet big start to the year. Your children have been working extremely hard all day at school building friendships, learning about our school community and everyday routine. With such full on days we encourage you to let your child rest and play when they get home. Some children may want to talk straight after school or some may need some alone time to process the day. Please be mindful of this. We encourage you to talk about the positives in the day and we have some talk points.

What went well today?

What games did you play at recess?

What was something that made you laugh?

What game did you learn in Sport?

Tell me something that you did well?

Jolly sounds

Check out our Videos on Toddle! Every week a new set of sounds will be put up to share with your children at home or even show you how we teach them the sound and action. In their purple pouch is the sound and action sheet to practise. You can get them to write it any way you like for example with a water sprayer, playdough, shaving cream, write it in flour. Just as long as they are starting from the correct position and forming the sound correctly.

Fine motor

Having finger and hand strength is really important and so any further practise at home would be amazing. This can include playdough, Lego, pegging clothes on the washing line, sewing or threading just to name a few. We do a lot of cutting in class and further practise of this will help build up the confidence at school too. This includes cutting straight or curvy lines while also moving the page around so they don’t cut their fingers.

Welcome to Week 6! This is our last week of our Wednesday rest days. We are so excited to see everyone’s smiling faces on Wednesdays. 

Foundation Bible Presentation: On Friday 6th March Week 6 our class will be presented with Bibles at Chapel. If you would like to join us, Chapel begins at 8:50am in the Worship Centre.

Foundation Welcome Evening: On Friday 13 March our P&F are holding a Foundation Welcome Night as a welcome to our school. Please come along, have some pizza and meet other foundation families.  For more information and RSVP details please click on the following link:

Foundation Welcome Night - Golden Grove Lutheran Primary School

Kimochis at Home: We have 2 very special Kimochis that are going to come for a visit on the weekend. Brave bug and Curious Cat. Students have designated weekends where they will bring home a small bug or cat and a book with instructions of what they will need to do. They will take the Kimochi home on a Friday and bring them back on the Monday. Please make sure they are taken care of and don’t get drawn on or eaten by any family pets.  If you do not have a printer at home, we are happy to print for you. Thank you.

Week 6 Learning Program: Reader’s Workshop – We Are Readers Word Study – sounds: r, m, d                         Bookmaking – Author Study: How to draw like Nick Bland

Term 1 Word Study Structure: During our Word Study learning time, students are introduced to a letter, the sound the letter makes and its Jolly Phonics action. We practice letter formation, SA print style, with an emphasis on letters being formed from top to bottom (please see handout in Jolly Pouch using Handwriting Heroes). We look at 3 letters per week and by the end of Term 1, have covered all 26 letters of the alphabet. As your children learn more sounds, they will begin to sound out and write simple cvc words (consonant-vowel-consonant) eg. sat, pin, hut.

Inquiry into Maths 

Growing Our Number Muscles

I can count and represent numbers to 10

How We Express Ourselves Central idea: Through play, we express our feelings, ideas and new understandings.

Line of inquiry 1: What is play? 

Line of inquiry 2: How we share our feelings, ideas and new understandings through play (communicate)

Line of inquiry 3: How we show our feelings, ideas and new understandings through play (express)

Key concepts: Function and Form

Learner profile: Communicators, Thinkers and Risk -takers

Christian Studies: Christian Beliefs

Key Idea: The person and work of Jesus the Christ is central to Christianity

Children learn about who Jesus is and discuss what Jesus said and did 

Take Home Folders:  

Take Home folders need to come to school every day. Students will need these to take home notes, craft they make during the day, and new sounds will also be placed in this folder from Week 3 onwards.  

Jolly Pouch (purple pouch): Please keep the pouch in your child’s take home folder!

Each Friday, your child will receive the next 3 sounds/actions in their Jolly Pouch. It is up to you whether you keep the paper in their pouch or find a safe place at home. We hope these resources are valuable for you to practise what we learn in class. Each Friday afternoon, a video will be posted on Toddle to support your child at home.

Family Photo: We would love a family photo to put on our family wall in the classroom for children to look at when they miss their family during the day. Please either send a hard copy photo in or email one to us and we can print it off. 

Pick Up Information: 

To assist the children and teachers with end of the day procedures, we would like to know your child’s pick-up details. There is a poster inside the classroom door with pick up options. Please fill this out at your earliest convenience. We are then able to reassure your child at the end of the day. If your plans change on any given day, please ring through to the School Office and they will inform us via the ‘message’ tray of the changes, or tell us in the morning at drop off.  

Please note: During teaching hours, we are unable to check emails. 

Foundation Welcome Evening: On Friday 13 March our P&F are holding a Foundation Welcome Night as a welcome to our school. Please come along, have some pizza and meet other foundation families.  For more information and RSVP details please click on the following link:

Foundation Welcome Night - Golden Grove Lutheran Primary School

Chapel/assembly: Our Foundations will not be attending weekly assembly or chapel until Week 6 (March 2-6) to help them settle into the routines of school.

Volunteers: We love having volunteers in the classroom. If you are interested in volunteering, there are a few tasks you will need to be able to help in the classroom.

· Current Working With Children Check (WWCC)

· Responding to Abuse, Harm and Neglect training (RRHAN-EC)

· Valuing Safe Communities (VSC) training; and You can find the information here on the school website: https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/parents-community/employment-opportunities/

School Calendar https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/school-life/school-calendar/

Blessings,   

Brianna and Tania 

Brianna Stanley:  stanley.brianna@goldengrove.sa.edu.au 

Tania Tenten:

 tenten.tania@goldengrove.sa.edu.au