In Literacy we now know all of the single sounds and we are currently learning about the sounds sh and th. We learnt that we had to stick our tongue out a little bit to make a th sound and discovered that it was very easy to muddle up f and th! We have also been learning to blend sounds to write words and we all wrote our own stories about why Santa got stuck in the chimney! After that we enjoyed listening to each other’s stories because they were funny.

Last week we were sad to say goodbye to Mrs Lawson, a post graduate teacher student, who had taught us many exciting lessons with lots of fun learning activities over the last 6 weeks. We especially enjoyed our own Christmas Fair where we had turns at manning the stalls, taking money and paying for turns of the games. This brought together many of the money skills that we had been learning with Mrs Lawson such as coin recognition, addition and budgeting.

In numeracy we have been continuing to practise addition by finding out about different strategies we can use such as starting with the biggest number and counting on. After the holidays we will be leaning to subtract so any practise with counting backwards from 20 would be helpful.

Over the last two weeks we have investigated Christmas traditions through play. Some of our ideas included creating a Christmas house, making snow globes, writing letters, making envelopes, wrapping parcels, making cards, decorating a tree and making a post box. There was lots of great problem solving and teamwork as we helped each other with these activities.

Last week’s highlights, of course, were our wonderful performances of The Sleepy Shepherds. Our teachers were so proud of us for working hard to learn our parts and for showing such confidence in front of the audiences.

Have a lovely break everyone!

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