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Thanks so much to all the Mums and Dads for coming to the Parent/Teacher Conferences.  It was so nice to talk with you all and learn more about your children.

We have been very busy in and out of class this week.  Even with two shorter days on Wednesday and Thursday we managed to get all of our work done and still have time for some free exploration time.

In Maths we have been busy with sorting and ordering, patterns and simple addition to 10!  

Phew what a week! 

Language

Language has been such fun.  We have been working really hard with letter sounds, sight words and writing our weekly journal. We had all our sight words on the cupboard and used our magnetic letter to match them and say them out loud.  It is really helping the children to sound out the letters and recognise each one. 

We also painted our sight words, played word hunt outside and wrote them with big chalk.  Outside is fun because we get to shout the words out too ;-)

Unit of Inquiry

This week we started our new unit.  The children were introduced to our central idea:

"People develop systems for different purposes to improve their lives"

We discussed this idea and since some of the words are a bit tricky to understand we talked about each word and clarified its meaning.

We did a very fun activity tuning into this inquiry. The children were put into groups of four and given the task of making a paper chain.  They had to work as a team and come up with a system to make the chain.  It was very interesting watching how each group went about organising themselves and what system they used to get the job done.

Check out our finished products!

Here are a few more pictures of all the other things we have been doing!

Information about Raz-kids is on our Language page.  You will find your child's log in details on the inside of their yellow take home folder.  Enjoy reading with your child.