Thank you to all the families for being a part of our assembly last week. It was great to see so many of you there to be a part of our celebration of learning.  I have included some photos below for you to enjoy!

This fortnight we have 12 students attending school 100% of the time which is an improvement from last week - thank you for encouraging your child to come to school everyday. Attendance is key to enable the staff at St Josephs to support your child’s whole development - not just academic but the social, wellbeing and spiritual development of the child. This is what makes up the whole child and learning will not take place if those needs aren’t met.

In maths we have completed the five week unit on Number and Algebra where we were focusing on place value and properties of numbers. Now we are moving into our unit about units of measurement. We will spend one week each on length, mass and capacity. Check out our photos of exploring measurement with counters and rulers below.

In writing we are wrapping up our unit of narratives and have been hard at work constructing stories from scratch. This can be difficult but with the help of picture prompt cards or a teacher the ideas can start flowing. We have also looked at how to improve our stories with the inclusion of similes and editing techniques.

Thank you for bringing homework back in on a Thursday, it has been great seeing all the maths sheets getting completed. The reading log books are a great way to track how many days your child has read over the year. Just simply fill in the title of the book, add a smiley face and continue the counting of days read from the previous day. Any questions or concerns please contact me.