Foundation

Literacy

Over the last couple of weeks the Foundation students have been taking their readers and fluency folders home to practise their letter recognition and start putting the letter sounds together. In the classroom the students partner up to practise their fluency reading tasks, they take turns of being the teacher watching for any errors which we have been practising using kind words to encourage their partner to try again.

Numeracy

We play lots of maths games to practise maths concepts such as counting, subitising and place value. Some of the games we have played include 1,2,3,4 win them all, subitising memory & snap and 5 in a row.

Each day the students keep track of how many days we have been at school using a few ways to represent the number (tens frames & counters, numeral and hundreds chart). By the end of Week 8 the Foundation students will have reached 33 days of school.

Buddies

This week we caught up with our buddies to learn about Harmony Day and complete a craft activity.

Golden Hammer Day

Last week we had so much fun moving around different activities with the students from our houses and coming to school in our house colours.

1/2 K/S

The Year 1/2 students in Mrs Schwab and Mrs Kerlin’s room have had a busy 2 weeks.

Some of our highlights have been;

PE with Ms McEvoy - we have been busy playing tennis, table tennis and cricket during our PE sessions . This has been a lot of fun. We have enjoyed learning new skills

Golden Hammer Day - this was a wonderful celebration of our patron Saint.

We all enjoyed working and playing other students in our house colour teams The activities were all a lot of fun.

Literacy - we have been very busy this week beginning our new Literacy approach. Some students are working with Miss Williams and some are working with Mrs Schwab and Mrs Kerlin. We have all done a great job learning new routines. We are experts at the Daily review - this is how we start our Literacy block. It is a fast paced review of content that has been previously taught.

Numeracy - maths has been fun this week. We have continued to focus on grouping materials into tens using a range of different things such as unifix, counters and icy pole sticks. This week we have practiced bundling using icy pole sticks. We will continue to focus on bundling next week.

1/2 EW

What a busy few weeks! Here is a quick recap of what has been happening in 1/2 EW the past two weeks…

We introduced our new learning approach for literacy- Decodable Readers Australia. This meant students were working within both classrooms and learning a new structure to our literacy routine. The students have done an amazing job and seem to be really enjoying this new approach. In Numeracy, we have been focusing on counting and grouping materials with all the new strategies we have learnt. Students have shown great knowledge and understanding and have just started to group large numbers. This is awesome to see!

Every day after break two 1/2 EW spend 5-10 minutes doing mindfulness where we colour in, meditate, check in with each other and or do yoga. The students love this time to relax and reflect on their day. Last Friday, we had Golden Hammer Day and we were super excited to get dressed up in our house colours and participate in the activities. The students have been talking about how fun it was and how good it was to work with older and younger students of the school. Well done on a great two weeks!

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PEOPLE OF STRENGTH - PEOPLE OF GENTLENESS

Term 1, Week 8 · 23 Mar 2023

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