Prayers

Last night Mrs Donovan, a very special past teacher of St Mary's passed away.  Everyone here is feeling a bit sad and so today at prayer time we talked about her and asked God to take her to Heaven to be with him.  The children's prayers were so thoughtful and lovely, I was very proud of them.  Miss Donovan, her daughter does our classroom release on Monday mornings so the children also said some lovely prayers for her.  Perhaps tonight your families could have a quiet word with God on her behalf.  We are also praying for Tara Chapman and her family in class at present.  The children are very reverent and prayerful when it comes to someone who is sick, they have shown their gorgeous Catholic Character so well.

Today we were discussing the gifts of the Holy Spirit and what they look like in our behaviour.  You can see their ideas and their lovely photos on the hall foyer wall.  It is Room 13's job to keep the foyer looking interesting and colourful, your children are likely to feature a fair bit there.  Keep talking to them about the things that show the Holy Spirit is in their heart, it helps them remember the right thing to do.

Annie

Reading and Writing

A big congratulations parents.  Your hard work at home with reading is paying off.  The children are making some lovely progress.

A special congratulations to these three children.  Imogen and Jacob who have moved onto Yellow, level 6.  And Aarav who after only a short time at school is already on Red, Level 5.  You guys are super stars!

Awesome readers and great friends too.

Super duper reading Aarav.

Clever Readers

Congratulations to Don, Maiah and Max who moved their race cars onto the yellow track today.  They are now reading level 6, yellow and everyone in Room 13 is so proud of them. Awesome job you three clever readers.

Writing Assessment

At present we are learning how to write persuasively.  It is really tricky!  Today we did a pretest to put into our portfolio's which will come home during Term 2.  I was so impressed with some of strategies the children were using and how hard they were concentrating. Check these pictures out of your lovely children hard at work.

Kaia writing why her mum is the best.

KJ motoring on with her writing.

Maiah taking a moment to think what comes next.

Aarav working out the sounds he needs.

Dylan on target and focussed.