A warm welcome to week 2 and what a busy week it was! This week we have been busy doing lots of learning and celebrating Vietnamese New Year.

Reading at home

This week we sent home with the children a ‘home reading diary’. This book is to encourage students to read their readers each night with an adult or older sibling. After the students finish reading a book they can record the title of the book, a comment about the story and draw a face to show whether they enjoyed the book or not. As the students continue to fill in their reading diary there are milestones to hit where they receive a certificate and a sticker. When they reach one of these milestones please ask the children to bring their books to one of the teachers so that we can sign it off and take their photo.
You may also notice that your child’s reading level has changed slightly since the end of last year. This is completely normal after the 6 week holiday break and the children will start to move up again after continued reading at school and at home.

Brainfood

Just a friendly reminder that students need to bring something for brainfood each day. This is an additional snack to their recess and lunch. Brainfood can be a piece of fruit, a vegetable, yoghurt or cheese. Brainfood is an important time for the students to have a small break and give their brain and bodies energy for more learning.

In Word Study we began looking at and revising our single letter sounds. This week we have learnt the sounds ‘s, a and t’.

Have a look at our handwriting! You might also like to sing these songs at home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwupro4AVsY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1xmriwh2T8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg4t5cUeZZo

As part of Word Study we have also been investigating sight words. Sight words are words that you can not sound out and that you must learn by sight. Have a look at us working hard on the sight words ‘a, i and the’.

HASS

In HASS we have been exploring the past. We started our topic by investigating lots of images of things that were used in the past. After investigation we choose our favourite picture and had a go at drawing it.

We have also been enjoying going to the Library on Fridays. A reminder that students black reading folders need to be brought to school everyday but especially on Friday’s so that their readers can be changed over. Please come and see one of us for a new black library bag if your child has lost yours.