Another Bad Week of Coughs and Colds.

What a week we have had in Prep C with many of the children coming down with this dreadful cold.  By the end of Friday we were down to 9 children!  I do hope that one and all have had a good rest over the weekend, and that those who are well will return to the grade on Monday.

Earlier this week I individually assessed each child's reading this week.  I am so thrilled at their progress as little readers.  They have taken a great leap up the reading levels over this last 5 weeks, which I am sure that you have seen at home too.

A reminder to you all that we fly off to Canada on Saturday, and Mrs Kate Hutchinson will be taking over for the rest of the term.

Spelling Investigation

This week we have been looking at the 

Bossy Fairy E.

We collected a variety of words from our readers.

We looked for patterns.  Then we sorted the words into common groups.

We discovered that sometimes the Bossy Fairy E did absolutely nothing.

But generally we discovered that it makes the vowels say their name, not their sound.

We played this game where words would totally change their meaning by adding a Bossy Fairy E.

Such as slid to slide and slim to slime.

Mass

The children have shown a growing skill in carefully weighing a variety of objects,

then, recording their findings,

and ordering their objects from lightest to heaviest.

Place Value

Using bundles of paddle pop sticks the children quickly made numbers to 99.

 They recorded the numbers as an addition sentence,
30 + 4 = 34.

We learnt a new game called "guess my number".

Ask your child how they played this game.

Counting On

Counting on is an addition skill where the children put one number in their head, and then count on to add two numbers together.

They played this new game to practice this skill.

Ask your child how they played this game.