What a great week we’ve had in 02. There have been lots of fun activities and lots of learning.

 

Everyone enjoyed the Disco and Nature Play was lovely yet again. We were so pleased to have rain on Friday. While there were a few puddles in the Garden throughout the week, we all got in the creek and had a lovely time jumping and splashing about. Thanks to the parents who remembered to pack a change of clothes for their children.

We are rostered to use the Nature Garden later in the term.

The coming week is going to be just as busy as the last week.

We have been working hard to learn and use a variety of digraphs this week. What is a digraph? A digraph is a combination of two letters representing one sound, as in sh, th and ch.

 

Did you know that we also talk about how to pronounce the sounds that we learn?  It is important that children are able to say a word correctly, making sure their tongue is in the right place for each sound.  Basically, research has proven that children need to say a sound properly in order to be able to write it. If your child cannot articulate a particular sound they may end up writing the word the way they say it, for example, if a child says a ‘v or f’ instead of  ‘th’ they will write ‘wiv or wif” instead of ‘with’.

 

Term 3 means that we are now expecting some basic words to be spelled correctly. I hope you will remind your child that we need to see their tongue when saying the ‘th’ sound during conversations when reading and writing.

Here is the information your family will need to be organised.

• Show and Tell posters are due this week. I am very excited to learn more about your child from his/her poster. You might like to ask your child to present it to you at home so that they can have a little practice.
• A reminder that there will be no sharing in Week 4. However, we will send home a task for families to work on together in readiness at the end of  this week.
• Mrs. Hedger will be in our classroom on Monday morning until recess and again on Wednesday until 12:00, whilst I attend training and development. She will, of course, continue our learning program.  I will check sight words on Tuesday morning of this week instead of Monday, please remind your child to be organised.
• Fruit sharing will return this Friday.
• Thanks to the two parents who have offered to help us with our Social Skills Program. I am still in need of four more volunteers to help us out in weeks 5, 7 and 9. If you have a spare half an hour the children and I would really appreciate it. I ask that you commit to all three sessions for continuity.
• We are still in need of a few more Milo/Formula tins.
• Photo information went home this week.  You can pay online or pay cash on the day, regardless of payment method, please return your envelope on photo day. Please do not send your envelope with money prior to this day as I unable to store money in the classroom.