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Week 8 Term 4 2022

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 Dear parents, Welcome to Week 8... the final weeks of Year One ! I hope you have all been enjoying the weekend break and taking some time to rest as we power through til the end of the year ☀😎 Just a few notes for the final fortnight ahead... Homework This will be the last week of home readers as we need to do stocktake for the last week of school. I will also be putting in a mini booklet of all of the fluency grids and spelling lists that we have had this year.  If you could go through this booklet and work through particular sheets which your child may be having difficulty applying to their long-term reading memory that would be great.  We ask that you remove these white reading fluency and spelling lists from their homework folder and keep them at home to use over the holiday break.  A reminder that the spelling list on the back of these are the three levels.  Yellow list is at year 1 standard, pink is extra support and blue is extension.  The final six words on each list are tric

Week 6/7 Term 4 2022

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  Kaya Everyone ,   We hope you enjoyed the pupil free day on Friday and were able to spend some quality time together. Teachers used this day to revisit how to use effective assess ments that alig n to the Western Australian curriculum and learning more about our SCSA Judging standards and achievement standards for each year level . This is the perfect time as we are spending time assessing the students over the next fortnight for reports.    Tomorrow is Crazy Sock Day! Children can wear any socks with their uniform - the crazier the better! Please contribute a gold coin donation tomorrow so we can "Sock it to Poverty" for Catholic Mission Australia. Learning Intentions   Spelling: We look at the phoneme ‘ dge ’ as in bridge and ‘tch’ as in catch.     Writing: We use suspense words to create tension in our narrative texts.       Mathematics: We revisit 2D, and 3D shapes and revis ing time to half the hour.      St Vinent De Paul Christmas Appeal   Each year famil