School News
Kindergarten students have certainly embraced our school mantra of being “Ready to Learn”. Every day the children are developing new skills and engaging in exciting activities that always seem to bring a smile. Our focus over the past several weeks has been the build up to National Simultaneous Storytime where we have read and discussed this year’s chosen book “Family Tree” by Josh Pyke. We will be creating a whole class family tree, whilst embracing the technology and fun of green screen - definitely a highlight last week!
We made desert rose flowers for our Sorry Day liturgy and worked with our Year 6 buddies to create a Reconciliation Week display for both grades. We discussed the meaning behind the word “sorry” and why it is so important to our First Nations People and how our catholic school motto of “moved to compassion” applies to our everyday life.
Our daily reading and writing journey is coming together for many of our youngest learners who are now starting to enjoy the magic of becoming independent and confident readers and writers. We are also learning to write our own sentences with the help of Miss R, our wonderful student teacher.
In Mathematics, we are looking at different strategies for addition and subtraction with lots of hands-on activities and investigations.
One thing is certain, it’s always busy and full of excitement in KB and KG!
News from Amaroo Gold:
In Amaroo Gold we are also having a busy and exciting time so far this term!
Open Classrooms
We loved having our Mothers and Grandmothers in our Amaroo Gold classroom. We made some paper flowers for our Mums and shared our learning with them when they visited our classrooms.
English:
One of the books we have read together this term is “The Little Red Hen”. We loved this book and even made some of our own bread.
Religious Education
We have been learning about what happened after Jesus died. We enjoyed the story ‘Fish for Breakfast’. Our favourite part of the story is when Peter jumped into the water and swam to the beach to see Jesus! The rest of the disciples followed with a net full of fish behind them.
Science:
We have been learning about small creatures in our garden in a Science unit called “School Yard Safari”. We are using our magnifying glasses to look closely at small animals like worms, snails and ants.
Music with Mrs McCabe:
We have been practising for our school musical called “The Litter Muncher”. It is so much fun learning all the songs and acting out the story.
