What fun we had at the Colour Run last week!  Thankyou to all the parents who supported the event by setting up, joining in or washing dirty clothes afterwards!  The students had a terrific time and it was joyful to spend some time together as a school community celebrating our dads.  

Our attendance is 95% year to date - well done!  We have 1 student who has 100% attendance so far this year.  Next Wednesday we will be having a Principal’s morning tea for students with 100% attendance this term.  Year 1 will have 5 students attending. We will also have 5 students attending the morning tea for receiving 4 St Joseph’s wristbands.  To receive a wristband, a student must receive 40 Joey’s tokens in a week. Well done to these students.

Our focus in Literacy has been writing our finding tales.  We have completed the writing process: brainstorming, drafting, revising, editing and publishing.  The students are putting the final touches on their illustrations and then we will send our stories home to share with you.  We have been learning to use adjectives and adverbs to make our writing more interesting. Next week we will be learning about contractions.  The students’ reading is progressing really well and we will be focussing on vocabulary to help us understand the new texts we are reading. 

In Maths we have been learning about fractions and how one half is one of two equal parts.  Perhaps you could find opportunities at home to talk about sharing and equal or non-equal parts.  We have also been learning about measuring using informal units - measuring the length of objects, measuring capacity (how much an object could hold) and measuring volume (how much an object is actually holding).  Next week we will be consolidating our knowledge of chance and probability to gather, analyse and record data. We will show our learning by creating different types of graphs.

Every Tuesday and Thursday, the Year 1 students have been enjoying reading to the Year 6 students.  The Year 1’s love showcasing their reading prowess and the Year 6’s love asking comprehension, vocabulary and connection questions to the students.  Below is a photo of the students enjoying this special time together.