Prep

Welcome to Week 7.  We are already over the halfway mark.  There has been a lot of sickness making its way around the classes.  Please make sure your children are well rested and if unwell please keep them at home.  We do advocate sharing, but not in this instance!  Over the next few weeks both Prep classes will be completing their assessment pieces.  These marks will help form judgements for end of Semester report cards along with classroom observations.  

Each student’s sight word bank is increasing.  It is important to revise words learnt previously.  “If you don’t use it, you lose it”.  Also, please remember library day is Wednesday for both classes.  If students do not return their books or have a bag they are unable to borrow. 

Thank you to our Parent Helpers that continually turn up to assist in the running of Fitness and Trains groups. We are always looking for helpers with Fitness.  With your continued support these groups provide great reinforcement of content. 

This week in maths we are focusing on patterns and how they repeat.  Look for patterns in everyday objects and around the house.  It is amazing how many patterns exist in our homes and in nature.  In English, we continue with new weekly sight words, our letter r and the word families of ab and an.  Look for these letters, words and word families in your nightly readers. 

Have a great week, stay warm and well. 

Liz and Melita 

Year 1 

Welcome to week 7! 

In English, we are learning to write a rhyming couplet, so we are busy reading and decomposing poetry, trying to find the elements of alliteration, rhyme and rhythm.  

In Maths, we are learning to recognise and classify familiar two-dimensional shapes using obvious features and what 2D actually mean.  We will sort shapes into like groups and learn how many vertices/corners are on each 2D shape.   

Thank you to Mrs Kelly, for explaining the roles of the various groups in our church community during our recent Religion lesson.  

In Science, students have created a landscape, illustrating day and night features.  They are on display in our classroom – come and have a look!  Using our knowledge learnt about features of landscapes, students will be designing and building a Zen Garden.  We ask each student to bring in a shoe box lid – only the lid please.   

Have a wonderful week! 

Jenny and Ange 

Year 2 

Welcome to week 7! 

This week we are back into our routine and are enjoying having all of our classmates back at school.  We have certainly had an unusual term, but fortunately life is gradually returning to normal. In English we are exploring fairy tales,  in particular the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood.  We are learning about the structure of a fairy tale and how to write a recount of a fairy tale. 

This term we are also focusing heavily on punctuation and sentence construction.  We have learnt that when we stop at fullstops in our reading, it helps us to understand where to put the fullstops in our writing. 

In Science we are learning about the forces of push and pull and exploring how an object can change shape when forces are applied.  In Hass we are finishing off our mini project about our chosen country.  In Maths we are exploring fractions and time as well as working on adding and subtracting  multiples of ten with our maths mentals.   

Dennielle, Allyson, Sarah, Aleisha & Megan

Year 3 

It has been great to see everybody back in class – we missed all of the students’ smiling faces! This week, we are continuing our work on persuasive writing in English, fractions and number patterns in Maths, consolidating our knowledge of the relationships between the Earth, Sun and Moon in Science and some of the changes in the Toowoomba community in HASS.

In Religion, we have been looking at the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist. We will begin looking at the sacrament of Reconciliation next week. Don’t forget to return your Reconciliation note and information by the 17th June if you would like to be part of this year’s program.

Please remember to return library books every Monday and to return discus notes as soon as possible. 

The free dress day on Thursday 18th June has a theme of ‘favourite footy colours’. We ask for a gold coin donation for the missions on this day. Have a great week! 

Janice, Ange & Annie

Year 4 

Children have settled very well into our normal daily routine and are working hard in all areas. For History this term we are undertaking an inquiry into the life of Indigenous Australians before and after European settlement. Our Mathematics focus this term continues to be Time, Money and Fractions. Children will also be introduced to the use of Decimal Fractions as an important part of our number system. Please continue to work on clock reading and change when working with money, at home.  These are life skills that continue to require practice. 

Online learning was of course, a very important part of our schooling over the first five weeks of term and to continue to keep in touch, homework this term will be a mixture of online activities including Maths, Spelling and Reading. Children have also been working on a Life Cycle power point in Office 365. This is due for presentation this week. 

As we have limited time before the end of the Term, it is important that all students are at school as much as possible.  Although, if you are unwell, please stay home. 

Have a great week everyone and enjoy the winter chill! 

Suzanne, Garry & Michael

Year 5

Welcome to week 7. How good was it to be back in the classroom last week! The pizza party we had last Friday was fantastic and was a great way to celebrate the end of the first week back. The teachers were very pleased with the enthusiasm that the students brought to the classroom and were impressed with the effort and positive attitude of everyone. We have introduced a new morning routine, where we meet together as a grade, start the day with a prayer, led by a student, and talk about our expectations for the day ahead. On Monday we recognise students who have been living the Lourdes way and those that have made great progress in their learning, this is also led by the students. Our aim is to ready the students for being leaders of the school next year.

A consent form went home last week regarding track and field events for the athletics carnival, these need to be returned as soon as possible. If you require another note, please see your classroom teacher.

At this stage, our camp at Tallebudgera will go ahead in early November. A note will come out early next term confirming details and costs. All camp costs will be added to your Term 4 school fees. We are lucky to have such a supportive P & F, who kindly pay for the cost of our transport to and from camp.

Have a wonderful couple of weeks.

Tim, Emily & Steve

Year 6

The students have settled in well after returning from the five weeks of remote learning; it is great to see that some of the students have improved their ability to work independently. We will continue to use Teams and OneDrive. The weekly homework will be uploaded to Teams Files each week. Weekly homework consists of Readingeggspress, MathsOnline and Spelling City as well as assignment tasks. Please ensure that your child follows the weekly homework instructions and has all homework completed by 8am each Friday morning.  

Last week we focused on National Sorry Day and the commencement of National Reconciliation Week. The theme of national reconciliation week is ‘In this Altogether’. We all have a role to play when it comes to reconciliation, and in playing our part we collectively build relationships and communities that value Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, histories, cultures, and futures. Let’s make reconciliation more than just a focus for a week every year; let’s live it every day! 

Kylie & Larry