Welcome to week 5! What a great start it has been to the term filled with lots of learning and lots of fun.  

We have loved the extra events that we’ve participated in so far this term. These have included celebrating Mother’s Day, having our friends from ‘Athletics in the Outback’ come and run an athletics session with us, as well as having Matt from Cape York AFL come to do weekly sessions during PE.  

During English, we’ve been focusing on our decoding skills and how we can use these when reading and writing. We’re getting clever with our letter formation which can be seen when writing our recount sentences about stories. We’ve been getting lots of chances to practise our speaking skills through taking turns presenting the weather each morning, sharing ideas around our learning and also sharing our work with the class. We continue building our letters and sounds knowledge to help us with our reading and writing also.  

In Maths, we’ve been learning all about partitioning by breaking collections into groups, addition, subtraction, duration of time and numbers to 20 and how we can use these in different ways. Our favourite part of Maths is taking part in lots of different hands-on activities including games that encourage us to put these new skills into action.  

Religion learning this term has been all about prayer and the way that Jesus lived his life many years ago. We have loved learning all about what Jesus’ life was like back when he was younger and comparing things that are different and the same between his life and ours.  

Science with Miss Dore has been exciting learning all about different types of weather. We love looking at the weather each day and discussing during Morning Routine what the weather looks like and feels like. It’s been great hearing how our weather vocabulary has grown over the term as we learn more and more about weather.  

Technologies has been focusing on force and motion which has allowed us to explore the different ways toys and objects move and how we can be part of making things move. It’s been fun being able to look at a range of objects and experiment with these to learn more about force and motion. We’ve also enjoyed learning about how we can record information about our findings and how we can share and discuss these findings with our peers.  

The Arts has been an exciting change this term moving from learning all about colour, drawing and painting into movement and dance. We’ve been learning all about the tempo of music, different movements, and also how dance forms an important part of many cultures. We especially love being able to get up and move our bodies and have seen some very groovy dance moves coming out ?. 

During HASS, we’ve loved exploring Geography and the places that are special in our lives. We’ve been learning all about the special place we share together, Weipa, and also the role that we play in looking after Weipa. This has been a great space for lots of conversations and sharing of ideas. 

We are looking forward to more learning and also more exciting upcoming events including the Sports Carnival, Under 8’s Day and also the Weipa Fishing Classic.  

As usual, if you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact me on kbackhouse@cns.catholic.edu.au 

Many thanks,  

Miss Backhouse