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Pre Primary has had a smooth start to the school year with the students transitioning well with the five day week.

As part of our family theme - which integrates our History and Religious Education programs - the children are learning about many different cultures. Some of their learning experiences have included: looking at national costumes, Aboriginal dot painting, Croatian embroidery, Indian elephant collage and drawing and writing about what families like to do together. Cooking has also been a popular cultural activity with Italian icecream being a firm favourite!

The students are also participating in playful learning experiences during their literacy and numeracy rotations and are beginning to work with a partner for problem solving activities.

Well done Pre Primaries on a great start to full time schooling!

We celebrated Ash Wednesday in Year One with a Liturgy. Mrs Johnston put the ashes on
our foreheads.

We have had a great start to the year. We are being introduced to ClassDojo as a means of communication between class and home and are eagerly awaiting the arrival of our iPads so we use them to enhance our learning and be creative in our work.
 
In Religion, we are looking at different emotions we have and at how the Holy Spirit strengthens us to do the right thing.
 
In Health, we are looking at Drug Education and learning about tobacco and caffeine. We opened a cigarette to see what is inside it, before looking at various consumed products to see which items contained caffeine.
 
In English, we are becoming more familiar with nouns and are comparing concrete nouns to abstract ones.
 
For Civics last week, we had an incursion from the Constitutional Centre about local government.  We played some games and wrote a letter to our local Mayor.  Next week we are having another incursion about rules and laws.

Wow! We can’t believe how fast this year has gone and now we are all ready to go to Pre Primary.  We have had a fabulous last few weeks in Kindy. Last week we spent some time in the Pre Primary classrooms getting ourselves familiar with our new classroom environment. Christmas activities have been our main focus over the last few weeks.  We have made some special presents for our families and have been learning about the time that Jesus was born.

All the teachers and assistants in Kindy thank the families for a rewarding year and wish you a safe Christmas and New Year.

The Year 4 classes have been learning about God the creator in Religion this term.
On Monday we had a worm farm incursion where we learned about one of God’s amazing creations, the humble earth worm, and how we can better care for our environment.
We are also creating Advent calendars, with a focus on how we can do things with and for our families.

This term, the Year 2s have been extremely busy.  In Mathematics we have been learning about 3D shapes and picture graphs.  In English we wrote a Narrative about a special jellybean that went on an adventure.  We also have been perfecting our Spelling by doing lots of different spelling strategies. In Humanities and Social Sciences we have been learning about mapping. Each day this week we have had Charlie the Elf visiting us from the North Pole.

Year Three have been learning about the two Great commandments of Jesus.

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength and with all your mind.”

“Love your neighbor as yourself.

We discussed ways we are able to follow the Commandments.

Some ideas we suggested were:

To go to Mass,  Pray,  Help others, Care for God’s creation

and let others join in our games.

We have also been looking at the symbols used to help us when we pray.

This week in Year Six we have been extremely busy! Last week, we wrote special poems for Remembrance Day as well as hosting the Remembrance Day Service on Friday. On Monday, we participated in our first dance lesson of the year. It was quite warm in the Church hall, but we had so much fun. At Mater Dei on Tuesday, Six Gold were learning about acids and bases with Mrs Lombardo. We can’t wait to go to High School!

Five Gold has been working on looking at choices that people make that separate them from the community and what would be alternatives of thought and action. We also recognise that we are helped in our decisions and actions by Jesus' example and the strength of the Holy Spirit.

In Religious Education this term, we have been reading different stories from the New Testament showing how Jesus used his senses to help his friends and people in need.  We have talked about how we can use the senses that God gave us to work at school and at home.