Term 1

What a fantastic term of learning together. We are so proud of  all the children and how they have settled into their new learning environment – ‘School’. We have seen bravery, leadership, collaboration, kindness, risk taking, persistence and friendship woven throughout our days together, which has built a wonderful foundation, for our year of learning together.

We hope you have a wonderful and safe holiday together with family and friends and we look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday the 27th of April.

Michelle and Paul

Congratulations to Mason and Aria who achieved 50 nights of reading. Well done! 

Literacy learning

During the holidays please continue to build upon your child’s literacy knowledge and understandings from term 1 by reading your books from your black bags,  using the purple book that came home and the ideas listed below (the photos)

The purple letter/ word book:

This book has been given to you for your use at home.  It is intended to help you with your child’s reading and writing and compliment what we are learning at school.  It is your book and how you use it is up to you.

Some pages have letter sounds.  You can practise saying and writing the sound if you wish and write some words that have that sound in it.  For example, the letter s is found at the beginning of the words, sun, sat, sit and so on.

Some pages have a list of high frequency words that are commonly found in your child’s reading books.  They have been arranged in groups of words at a time and it is suggested that you focus on the first group of  words by saying them out loud with your child and getting them to read the words out loud and maybe writing them too.  Once one set can be read with instant recognition and without support from an adult then your child can move onto the next set and so on.

Your child’s learning journey is important and I hope this will support their reading and writing growth.

There is a literacy link attached below for you to access additional reading material from Oxford Owl.

Home

Some pictures of us borrowing books from the library:

Additional ideas:

Words

Use weekly words and read/ write them in creative ways for example;

• Lego
• Sticks or items from your garden
• Crayons
• Whiteboard texta’s on the fridge
• Rainbow words (with coloured pencils or textas)
• Look for words in different books around the home
• Write them on post it notes and stick around the room for them to find and pull off and read
• Make simple word cards and flip over to make a memory game

Pinterest has lots more examples of creative ways you can learn words.

Word Games

• Snap – write out two sets of cards. Shuffle cards and deal them out to players. Take turns to turn a card over. When two words are the same say ‘snap’ then if you were first to say snap you keep the pile.
• Memory – Use two set of words cards again. Put all cards down upside down. Turn over 2 cards at a time trying to find the matching pair. Keep the pair if you get it right. If not turn them over and try and remember where they were.
• Board game – Can you make a board game like ‘snakes and ladders’ with your words.
• Hide and Seek with the words around the house.
• Look for the words in your books.
• Torch game OR Nerf Gun – on post it notes write the words and stick them on the walls. Shine the torch or shoot with nerf gun – saying the word at the same time.

Word List:

the

and

a

to

 

said

in

he

I

of

 

it

was

they

on

she

 

is

for

at

his

but

 

that

with

all

an

so

we