Hi everyone,

Welcome to our 2012 class web site.

I have set this up to give you a glimpse into what happens in the day to day things that happen in our Reception class.

We (the students and I) love reading your comments so please leave us comments!

- practise by leaving a comment at the end of this post  To help you stay updated please add your email to the “Subscribe to our blog via email” button, you will see it just to the right .  If you add your email every time I update this blog you will be notified via your email.

Finding your way around our website………

At the top of this page you will see some tabs

This is our home page (a little house) and our ‘blog’ You will find the day to day things our class are doing.

So what is a blog ……From Wikipedia “A blog (a contraction of the term “web log”)[1] is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.”

We try to post a blog every week and especially when something exciting happens in our classroom. If  you join us for an event and take photos we would love a copy  of your pictures to add to the web site.

In Curriculum find Subject information about reading, areas of study, computing, maths, school values etc.

Helpful hints about what you need for school,  and how to get started are in theclass Manual please read “Starting our Day”

If you cant find information you need or there is anything you would like me to address on our website you can email me – check the Contacts page

Now some things to do to get started……….

If you are reading this it’s because you have received the website information.You will also have received a web consent form.  Please fill this out and return it to school asap so that your child can be involved in the management and updating of our website. (Please check my web safety tab if you have concerns or discuss this with me.)

 if you find a missing or broken link can you please let me know!

Please go to the forms page and fill in the“getting to know your child” and ”email addresses”  they will send to me so all you have to do is put in the information and hit submit!

You will notice that I talk about ‘we’ and this is because the students play a large part in the information that is put on our web site.   As a group we write the blogs together and decide what photos to upload.

Most of all please ask if you have any questions!

We hope you enjoy our website.

Cheers Leanne and  “the 2012 Receptions”

Hi Families just some reminders for the end of term.

LIBRARY: We will be returning all library books from today if every child returns their book by next Friday (week we will be given an ice block from Mrs James , so help us out find all the library books.

Didn’t we have fun at our concert on Friday.

We read the story of the Animal Boogie and then we decided what animals we could be and what actions we would do.  We had to practise a lot and we were very brave singing by ourselves in small groups.

In case you couldn’t tell who we were behind our mask here are some photos to share with you.  We hope you enjoyed our concert.

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We have been asked to present a song at Assembly on Wednesday.  Assembly will be held in the Gym and starts at 9:45.

Just a reminder that your child’s home reading bag needs to come to school everyday and that the exercise book given to your child when they started is  now being used often for journal writing ( Term 1 & 2 students only), several children have told me theirs are at home can you please check your child has theirs safe in the reading bag.     Please only take 1 school book for shared reading home at a time!

Have you returned your yellow web consent form?

Hi Families and welcome back to our busy last term.

A special big school welcome to Hayley, Nala, Isabella, Georgia, Narkesha, Daisy, Callum, Cohen, Cathan and their families.

Below we have listed a few important points for our term to start smoothly. As always, if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask.

Please ensure we have an up to date family email as we send all our class messages home this way. We can also notify you if we update our class website.

Please return ASAP the yellow consent form for publishing work and pictures on the web.

Some dates for your diary.

Acquatience chat for students who started this term will be on Tuesday 25th October at 3:30. We will give an information session and give you the opportunity to ask any questions about our classroom.

Progress interviews for students who started in term 3 will be about week 6. Julie will but up a timetable on the door in week 5.

Junior Primary Concert 2:00pm in the Gym on Friday in week 5.  We are making masks with the students and they can just wear their school uniform.

Class and individual photos for students who began in Term 3 or 4 and for students whos photo did not turn out or family photos that were missed will be on Friday 28th of October.

REMINDERS
Every child needs their hat at school every day. We encourage students to keep hats in their tray and if your child needs one for OSHC or for walking home to have a spare hat in the school bag. Term 4 and Term 1 are no hat no play terms.

School starts at 8:45 and we open the class at about 8:40, please wait for us to open the door as we need time for preparation and setting up. If you need to speak to us privately you are welcome to come in as this is a good time!

If your child is late (technically they are late if they are not sitting on the floor when the bell goes!) they need a late slip from the front office. Please bring your child in to class put their bag on their table and direct them straight to the floor. We will help them sort out their things when it is convienient.
This is a very important organisational time and your child needs to be listening on the floor. Remember getting to school on time sets up habits which will travel with your child into adult hood and into their working career.

Please check the class whiteboards each morning for any important messages.

Library day is THURSDAY. Library books need to be kept in the blue Willunga Bags that will be provided. Library books are kept for a week. Use this link for more Library information.
Show and Share Days You can use this link to go to the infomation page on Show and share

Monday Toby, Tayla, Tia, Carys, Connor, Celeb, Keara, Daisy, Hayley

Tuesday Jasmine, Jasmine, Jazmine, Jack, Jack, Riley, Isobella, Georgia

Wednesday Sage, Skye, Stella, David, William, Narkeshia

Thursday Ada, Michaela, Mia, Deklan, Kayden, Hannah, Harry, Brock, Nikita, Nala

Friday Eamonn, Ethan, Ethan, Evan, Brianna, Rhianna, Callum, Cathan, Cohen,Cohen.

FOR OUR NEW STUDENTS Use this link to go to our helpful class manual

Your child will need an extra large pencil case available from Bilo, Big W ‘cheap shops’ to use as a take home reading bag. These bags will containa Take home reading book and a Reading Record Book. The record book is for parents to fill in each night. When your child brings a bag we will do our initial testing and be ready to send home a book.

The children will be learning/revising their morning routine over the next few days.

Bags on the rack outside (not on the top please) and drink bottles on top of the rack. Bring in lunch boxes and take out Brainfood – We have fruit time every day so their fruit needs to sit on their desk. Lunch boxes and hats(term 1 and 4) go in trays. Reading books need to be changed

The children should approach this routine independently, but will need reminders/support for the first few weeks. After these jobs are done they can play with their play-dough at their table until the bell goes at 8:45. When we start the music all students are required on the floor.

It is important for you to say goodbye to your child at this time and let them know that you will be back to pick them up. Later we hope that you will stay and help with reading in the morning, but for the moment it is important for the children to feel independent and confident within their class.

At the end of the day you are most welcome to come into the classroom to view your child’s work, but please let the children be dismissed first and then come in with your child. We always wait with the children so please let us know if you would like them to met you at another spot or if thery are being collected by siblings or friends.

Just a reminder that Mrs Bradly is in our class on Wednesdays instead of Mrs Crockford! Mrs Giffin is here every day

Looking forward to a great Term 4

Julie, Leanne and Di

Well tomorrow is our big day for Jump Rope. Hope you have got lots of sponsors.  You can bring your own rope if you want to!

We have been practising very hard and you will be very surprised how clever we are with our skipping!

We will be doing ours starting at 8:50 in the hall.

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Healthy Heart came around to visit us today and said that we can keep collecting money over the holidays and if we do our sponsorship form online there are even more special prizes.