Happy Mothers' Day

Here's wishing all you Mums out there a very happy Mothers' Day this Sunday.  Your child has certainly been very busy this week in preparation for this event, and I do hope that you have enjoyed the books and craft creations that they brought home for you on Friday. 

Student of the week. 

Congratulations to Kaitlyn for being our student of the week this week.  She has started to become a real fearless little writer, confidently having a go at sounding out words for herself, or finding them from around the room.

The Maths Block

Your child may have told you about having Prep B with us for Maths one day last week.

Each member of our grade teamed up with a visitor and worked with them and showing them our games and routines.

They all did a wonderful job and everybody had a busy and successful time.

This week in Maths we have been focusing on the number that comes 'in-between' two given numbers.

Ask your child about how they completed this activity.

As you see the children were all busy little beavers working on this activity.

A big favorite among the children is 'Guess My Number'.

We have played this game for learning numbers that come before, after and in-between.  

Ask your child how we play this game.

We use these cards which focus on the number in-between to play our games.

The Literacy Block

This week we have introduced a new activity called 'making and breaking'.

The children stretch out a word 'on chewing gum' to hear the sounds in the word.

Using magnetic letters they make the word.

Next they break off the first letter, replacing it with a new letter to make a whole new word.

Then they start to see the relationship between words such as rat to cat to mat etc.  They start to understand that if they can read and write the word 'and' they can read and write sand and land etc.

Max and Tane, along with the rest of the grade, continue to do a wonderful job during our Guided Reading sessions.  The books that they read during this lesson are slightly more difficult than those they take home.  These books give them opportunities to learn more word solving and comprehending strategies.

I do hope that you enjoyed your child's Mothers' Day book.  The children were expected to be a lot more independent when writing these.  Putting words on chewing gum to hear their sounds, and then writing down the sounds that they heard.  We also introduced the word wall, where all the words that we have been learning to read are displayed.  If the children use any of these words they are expected to find them on the wall and copy them correctly.

Zara's Amazing Apple

Zara brought along this amazing apple this week.  It had one stem, that split into two, and then two joined apples, just like conjoined twins!

This is what it looked like inside.

Thanks for bringing that along to school Zara, it was amazing!