Info for Week 8

Hi everyone, another week is behind us and here is a quick update on what we can expect in the coming week.  Thank you to Don's Mum and Dad for the declicious cake on Friday, we enjoyed very much sharing Don's special day with you.

Week 8
This week we have the Reading Evening on Wednesday night from 5:15-6pm.  If you are interested in ways you can help your child with their reading progress, as well as a goodie bag with lots of ideas, come along.

For Golden Time this week we are hoping to have a movie and popcorn afternoon.  The children and I will have a vote during the week to decide which movie to watch and I will provide the popcorn.  We are trying hard to remember the Golden Rules and to treat others in our class with  RESPECT.  Hopefully we can all enjoy Golden Time this week without anyone losing minutes.

Today we have two new children starting in Room 13.  Their names are Ella and Araav.  We would like to welcome them to our Classroom Family and hope that their time at St Mary's is happy.  I know the lovely kids from Room 13 are going to make them feel welcome.

This week we will continue our focus on the alphabet sounds and their names as well as learning the basic words by sight.  We are finding lots of fun ways to practice these in the classroom, maybe if you find any new ways at home, you could share them with us.  The children love a bit of competition so we are going to set up a Word Mountain and see who can climb it first.

Testing will contiune this week and will be completed.  I will need to meet with all parents of New Entrants to discuss this testing.  A note will come home today. 

In RE we will continue to discuss Jesus and his life here on Earth.  Next week we will look at the Liturgical Year focusing on Easter.  There will be some Easter Craft and Treats, it is an exciting time for the children and important to remember that Jesus is the reason......

We have finsished with the Life Education Van now.  We enjoyed very much spending time with Bernie and Harold and I have some gorgeous photos of the children which will be on the wall very soon.

In Mathematics we will continue to work on Number from Monday-Thursday and then focus on the Strand Measurement on Fridays.  We are currently focusing on counting on and back from any given number to 20 with the New Entrants and from any given number to 100 for the older kids.  Keep practising counting forward and back, identifying the number before and after any number to 20, putting numbers in order from smallest to biggest and vice versa and instantly identifying facts to 5 (1+4=5, 2+3=5 etc )  The children are getting really quick with some of this now, its great to see.

During the week we had two children receive Super Kids awards.  They were DJ for always being a kind and caring friend and Molly for making great connections in her learning.  Well done to these two children.

Please continue to make comments on our Blog, it is always so nice to hear back from you all.
Have a great week, Annie