RC. Your child loving the true message of Easter. No Images? Click here Dear Families Welcome to this final fortnight of Term 1. EASTER ASSEMBLY. An Invitation All students Year 1-6 will be attending an Easter assembly next Wednesday 10 April, following the morning bell. Parents are invited to attend; pending weather, most likely underneath the hall. Morning tea. Hot cross buns will follow for parents in the piazza, following the assembly. Thank you, College Administration IMPORTANT DATES. TERM 1. Concludes for all students on Friday 12 April. TERM 2. Term 2 commences for students on Monday 29 April. We have been playing games where the students need to identify shapes and colours. KG1KG1 students have been talking about their family with their peers, as well as representing their family in a fine liner drawing then painting over the drawing with water colours. They also showed a photo of their family to the class and named the members of their family. We've started to focus on name writing, firstly by the students identifying their name on a flashcard then attempting to have a go at copying their name on their work. Coinciding with this, the students are participating in activities that are strengthening their fine motor skills in order to give them the control they need to accomplish the task. Each term they will write their name in their Portfolio to demonstrate their progress! The students have been participating in activities to improve their gross motor skills such as hopping, running, jumping and balancing. It was quite challenging balancing on a beam then trying to walk along the tree branches on the oval! On Tuesdays the students have the opportunity to ride bikes and scooters where they need to navigate their way around each other. Our building project is progressing, we've talked about which materials have been suitable to build with and which ones didn't work at all! Ros Grieves. Teacher KG2Over the past term the Kindergarten 2 children have experienced many different numeracy activities focused on counting to 10, identifying numerals, colours and shapes! We love to song number songs, and finger plays! The children thoroughly enjoyed using our light table to create different pictures using shapes. We also used the interactive board to practice drawing familiar shapes and numbers. We have continued to enjoy listening and singing lots of different rhymes. We love reading stories together and are becoming more confident in identifying words that rhyme. Last week we were very blessed to have Mrs Balla come in and read us a story in Chinese. The children loved listening to her read! Over the next few weeks, the children will engage in different activities about Easter, including learning the Easter story and craft activities. Courtney Stein. Teacher
KG3A highlight from the past few weeks has been when a large box arrived at Kindergarten 3. When posed with the question, “What shall we turn this box into?”, the student’s imaginations and creativity began to flow. Some saw a television, others a rocket and my favourite, a cake. We then democratically voted and a submarine was the obvious choice. The next task, after deciding the all important question of what colour, was looking at what makes submarine a submarine? Students explored different materials to help construct the periscope, propeller and windows. Students have enjoyed actively participating in building the submarine together. The students maintained a sense of ownership throughout the build. As part of our “research” we have been singing along to the catchy tune, We all Live in a Yellow Submarine. Margaret Gokavi. Teacher PP1Pre-primary 1 had an amazing time on their first excursion. We then visited the Discovery Zone! In this area we explored things from the past and present. There were also amazing drawers filled with things from bones and bugs to snakes and poo! Finally we went to complete our Fractured Fairytales activity. Here we read fairytales that have been ‘fractured’ or changed in some way from the traditional story. We then talked about how they were different from the traditional story and we made chatterboxes to help us ‘fracture’ our own fairytales at home. We all had an incredible time and came back to school ready to fall asleep! Melanie Baker. Teacher PP2Design and Technology – ‘Family Tree’ At the start of term, the children looked at images of different trees in nature and how they differed in size, colour and structure. Using this as inspiration, the children drew their own unique design of their ‘family tree’. Over the last few weeks the children have brought materials from home to bring these designs to life and they have done a wonderful job so far! The last step will be to add their family photos to the branches and we all look forward to sharing these creative pieces with you. (insert 5x Design and Technology pictures here) Christian Education – God’s Blessings This term the children have been listening to different Bible stories that tell of the different miracles of Jesus (Mark 2: 1-12 and Mark 4: 35-41). We discussed the ways in which God blesses us (Matthew 5: 1-12) and how Jesus taught people through stories and parables (Mark 4: 1-20). We discussed the ways in which God blesses us (Matthew 5: 1-12) and how Jesus taught people through stories and parables (Mark 4: 1-20).The children have participated in different interactive and creative activities to encourage them to draw meaning from these scriptures and to encourage them in their own Faith journey appropriate for their age. This week we will start our ‘Easter’ scriptures and activities. Keeping Safe: Child Protection Curriculum (KS:CPC) Each week we work through this Child Protection Curriculum. Our first focus area was “The right to be safe”. We have been learning about our feelings and we have encouraged the children to categorise them into ‘comfortable’ and ‘uncomfortable’ feelings. We use books and interactive activities to encourage them to learn the practical applications of being and feeling safe and we use a Y Chart to identify what safe ‘sounds like, feels like and looks like’ We have also discussed what bullying may look like to them and what they should do if they are bullied, or if they witness someone else being bullied. We categorised these into ‘helpful’ and ‘unhelpful’ ways to respond to bullying. We also discussed responses that we were uncertain about and put those into the ‘unsure’ column. (insert 1x bullying picture here) Physical Education – Let’s get moving! Our focus this term is on ‘Fundamental Movement Skills’ (FMS) and this can be described as those movement patterns that involve different body parts (such as the legs, arms and head) ‘moving together’. FMS is categorised into three groups - body management skills, locomotor skills and object control skills. The children have been learning how to balance, run, hop, skip, leap and jump using the correct technique associated with these skills. They also have been learning how to throw different sized balls and beanbags with both overhand and underhand throw and how to catch using the correct technique. Jeanette Binder and Colleen Balakrishnan. Teachers PP3On Thursday, the Pre-primary classes took a trip to the State Library. We loved the bus ride and enjoyed having our recess down by the pond near the library. We started off in our small groups reading “fractured fairy tales” - fairy tales that were told from a different perspective to the original. Later, in our groups we had to find differences between our traditional fairy tales and the fractured fairy tales. Some of the stories were very funny because the baddie believed they were the good characters in the story! Afterwards we went into the special library classroom and worked with Miss Tricia. In groups we read a fairy-tale, then retold the story using puppets and toys and took sequential photographs on the iPads. After lunch we explored the discovery zone in the library and saw so many amazing bugs, eagles, insects, animals and skeletons! There were so many things to explore! Thank you so much to the parents helpers who came along, I was blown away at how engaged you all were with the storytelling and how your promoted predictive thinking to the students after each page was read (puts us pre-primary teachers to shame!). It was such a great day and I’m sure we’ve read enough storybooks to last a while! Hayley Beath. Teacher 1.1In Year 1.1, we are starting to get very excited about moving to our new classroom and building. We discussed what we would need in our new rooms, what we would bring with us, and some new ideas that we would like included in our new room. Some of our ideas were pretty crazy, but we had some clever thoughts about how they could work. When we first suggested a beach, Miss Shaw was pretty surprised! But she was reassured that a pretend play beach could work. Last week, some of us drew pictures of our new classroom and tried to persuade Miss Shaw that our ideas were great. We think she might find it hard to say no! Lauren Shaw. Teacher 1.2To celebrate Harmony Week, we made a Harmony Garden. Everyone created their own flower using either: collage, edicole dye, oil pastels or even a combination! We discussed that like people, every flower was a little different. Some flowers were tall, some were short. There were different colours and sizes, but most importantly is was the flower’s differences that made them special. Together they make a beautiful garden. Our fitness focus at the moment is leaping. With regular practice everyone is making personal improvements! We have been leaping over hurdles, logs, cushions and into hula-hoops. Vanessa Jongeling. Teacher 2.1We have had our very exciting day camp in our classroom. The students came to school dressed in their camping clothes. First the students designed a tent suitable to fit their group and then they had to bring materials to build their tent. Each student brought a game to share with their friends, and a favourite toy, book or teddy bear. Everyone worked collaboratively to construct their tents; some had to adjust their plan and work out alternative solutions. Finally, all tents stayed in position long enough for all to enjoy. For lunch, the students ate sausage sizzles inside their tents and after lunch all of the Year 2s enjoyed drinking a chocolate or milo. After day camp, the students completed an evaluation of their tent’s performance and a self-reflection on how well they worked together as a team, listened to each other, and any improvements they could have made. In addition, each student chose a person to write a letter to, describing his or her day camp adventures. Thank you to all of the parent helpers who helped on the day. Your help was appreciated! Tracey Jenkins. Teacher 2.2Day Camp is surely going to be a precious piece of memory for many in Year 2.2. We learned how to plan, how to deal with disagreement and how to celebrate together! Every part was a great learning moment and all of us absolutely loved it. The students had to design their tents and organised the materials they needed. According to their reflection, which was completed after the camp, most of them were very pleased with how their tents turned out and were all very proud of themselves. Most of the tents stayed strong all day. We turned the lights off for ‘night time’ and turned them back on for ‘day time’. We had about four nights and five days during our Day Camp. The torches were especially fun and very useful during the night time. It was so lovely to see mums and dads help the kids build their tents, playing games in the tents, cooking and making hot chocolate for us. Thank you to all the parents again for helping in many different ways. (Some of the kids said that they were really tired the next day because they hadn’t slept for four nights during the Day Camp!) Min Chi. Teacher 3.1Okay, who loves cucumbers? Year 3.1 students do! (Well, most of them.) If you haven't noticed, we've been growing Lebanese cucumbers in a planter on the balcony outside our classroom. Last week we harvested 6 beauties and ate them immediately for Crunch and Sip. You can't get any fresher than that and they were delicious! Our Fitness program is continuing well too, with almost everyone increasing the number of laps they've completed in our cross country run. While half of the class is running the other half is playing a ball game called Interceptor to improve their eye-hand coordination and ball throwing and catching skills. Then we swap over. Later each student records the number of laps they've done in a table they designed for themselves in Maths. We have continued to look at Measurement with a challenge to answer the question "How much does the juice container hold?". We began with an investigation on the oval where we tried to measure and pour water from various smaller containers. Some were marked with millilitres, while others were not. Through a process of trial and error each group decided on a total capacity of the juice container based on the number of times they were able to pour water from their chosen smaller container into their juice bottle. Later, back in the classroom, each group illustrated their results with labelled diagrams and instructions. We had lots of fun playing with water in the sunshine and learned a great deal about millilitres, litres, capacity and cooperation. In Art, we have combined a look at Harmony Week with our designs from studying Aboriginal symbols and communication in HASS. As a result we have created some amazing bark paintings. Deanne Johnston. Teacher 4.1In Year 4, we have been watching (and listening to) the new building construction at school. In Maths we have been learning about the properties of shapes and the pupils took the i-pads and took photographs of shapes inside and outside the classroom. See if you can recognise some shapes when you look at the photos! In English we have learned about plurals and how to make some words into plurals. Just when we thought we knew it all, we get one house, many houses and then one mouse and many mice!!! We also discovered that some words stay the same in the singular and plural form - can you think of any? In Geography we have been exploring the atlas and this has introduced us to the amazing world that God has created for us. We have seen how useful the index is and how the coordinates on the map help us to find a place. Winn, one of our classmates, is overseas at the moment, and we have looked up his location too. Wendy Innes. Teacher Working with MAB blocks On the Swan River creature spotting! 5.1In Year 5 we have continued learning about multiplication strategies such as partitioning and algorithm. We are now applying this knowledge to work out area and perimeter problems. We began learning about area by working out how many MAB blocks would fit inside squares and rectangles. This helped us to understand what ‘area’ actually means, and what a square centimetre is!
6.1The students have been learning about taking care of our environment and as part of River Rangers we went down to the river to do a rubbish clean up. We managed to collect two bags of rubbish along the river. We also did a site analysis of the river where we observed the Swan River, and evaluated whether it was in a healthy state or not. The students noticed quite a bit of plastic around the edges of the riverbank, they saw a lot of jellyfish, fish and different species of birds. This term the students have been looking at different artists like Mondarian, Picasso and Frida Kahlo. The students have drawn their own portrait in the style of the different artists and have created some amazing pieces of art. Isabella came to school with a portrait of Frida Kahlo she has at her house. We have some very talented artists in Year Six. Janice Lotsos. Teacher ICT In ICT Year 5 took part in the International Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge. These types of challenges encourage students to look for the solution to a real-world problem in a variety of ways. We were able to go through the answers with the new MacBook Pros, in front of the big screen together. Jay Saxton. Teacher LANGUAGES In our Languages program, we have been focusing on Pasqua (Easter). Year 4’s have been focusing on the Colomba Cake; a dove shaped cake that is traditionally eaten on Easter Sunday, so of course, the children had a slice and have been learning great Italian at the same time. Other classes have been focusing on ‘l’uovo di Pasqua con la sorpresa’ the tradition of children getting a large chocolate egg with a surprise inside it. So it has been fun for classes to do activities with this. The year 6’s have been exploring on how Italians and Australians celebrate Easter with similarities and differences. They are working on iMovies using the iPads and I am looking forward to viewing these. Signora Kerrigan MUSICThe change of our classroom venue this term can be a huge change for most of us. We might not be able to have a easy access on our instruments, however, that doesn’t stop us from making music! We are starting to incorporate instruments in our lessons such as recorders, glockenspiels, bucket drums, just to name a few. Our Year 4 students have learnt that recorders squeak, squawk and screech like they have a mind on their own. But worry not, we are learning how to tame our recorders by exploring the different techniques making a nice, melodious tone that will ease your ears. Our Year 6 students are learning how to analyse music, and we are currently analysing traditional and contemporary Australian music. We also managed to fit in a few instrumental playing in our lessons as well. Our Kindy and Pre-Primary students are also settling well in music class, and we are learning how to multitask in music through singing, dancing and following cues at the same time. We are so pleased to see growth in our students, through their concentration, ability to multitask and confidence to sing and dance in class. Joey Wong. Teacher ENTERTAINMENT MEMBERSHIP FUNDRAISER Help our fundraising cause! Regent College receives 20% from every Entertainment Membership sold. Entertainment Memberships are available as a book or as a digital membership app. For more information or to arrange collection of your Entertainment Membership Book please contact Fran Baird in Administration. Looking for Vacation Care?
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