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Home Reading and check in days
Thank you for taking the time to read to your child at home and jotting this down in your child’s reading diary. We have started our ‘Check Ins’ with the students on their day. (On the front of the clear folder you will see a sticker indicating your child’s check in day.) We are having a quick look at their diaries and practicing some letter formation.
The students have a keyring in their reading folder. The keyring has a picture of all the sounds we have explicitly taught the students.
Please keep the keyring in the clear reading folder so that it is at school each day.
Once we have learnt a few more letters, you can use these little cards to make and read simple words at home.
To support your child, we have some suggested activities you might find helpful:
- Talk about the letter and the sound it makes.
- Discuss what your mouth does when making that sound (this supports articulation).
- Think of words they know that begin with that sound.
- Complete the handwriting page in their diary for the letter of the week.
- Practise writing the letter.
- Sing nursery rhymes.
- Come up with rhyming word pairs.
- Practise segmenting sounds in simple words (for example, cat – c-a-t).
Fete 21st March– The children are working hard on learning their song and dance moves for their fete performance.
Teddy Bears Picnic – 25th of March – On this day the students bring their favourite teddy to school which we take on a picnic to Mivo Park. Students wear their sports uniform on this day. Please refer to the letter emailed home for more details.
On Thursday in Foundation, we were very pleased to welcome Veronika’s dad, Alex, to come and speak to us about growing up in a village in Nigeria. Alex spoke about living in a village community and him and his siblings, needing to walk 45 minutes to collect water from a stream for his family to use as they had no running water or taps in their home. He showed us how the heavy cans of water were carried, balanced on their heads, for the long walk home. Alex showed us pictures of his village and explained what daily life was like in this rural area. The students had many interesting questions and were amazed at the differences in daily life compared to here in Australia. Alex connected this learning to our current Caritas Australia Project Compassion and how our generous donations can help communities such as his. We look forward to our Big Water Walk on April 2nd, when we get to experience, in a small way, some of the hardships others may face in having to walk long distances just to collect drinking water. Thank you so much for your visit Alex, we learned so much from you. We also got to hear Alex and Veronika count to 10 in Nigerian!
