We have settled back into our daily routines and are enjoying the changes to our curriculum this semester. Our specialist teachers, Miss Deb and Miss Amanda are taking HASS and Digital Technology on Tuesdays and Coach Tim is taking Soccer each Wednesday. Our students have enjoyed the lovely winter mornings outside, improving their soccer skills. We look forward to our Parent Engagement Day in Week 8 where we will demonstrate our skills and play a game with our parents and carers.

We continue our literacy development with a focus on responding to humourous poetry and rhyming texts, whilst also writing our own poems using given nouns or adjectives as a stimulus. We do our daily phonics development, individualised spelling lists and reading of levelled and/or decodable texts, finishing off with “Beat the Tiger.” It is great to see the gains we have made in these areas and our thoughtful responses to comprehension questions. We are currently enthusiastic in learning about the Solar System and working on our Moonscape door for Book Week in Week 6. Meanwhile, in maths we are partitioning single and double-digit numbers using unifix blocks and discovering as many combinations as we can!

Recently, Max and Leah created beautiful paintings to enter in the Mary Valley Art festival. Both received certificates for their efforts. Well done!

Warm regards,

Libby, Michelle, Thomas, Max, Leah, Heath, Daniel and Chris