Week 16 in K2

Performers' Assembly

On Wednesday performers from K2 and G1 entertained the Infant children during our Term 1 Performers’ Assembly. Congratulations to Isabella and James from K2SMH and Akhil from K2HWe for being such great risk-takers and performing their vocal, piano and violin pieces so beautifully.

RRR Booklets

Today, your child has brought home a ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!’ booklet. The children all know what they have to do as we have discussed it in class. It would be good for them to come up with their own thoughts of how they can help reduce, reuse and recycle at home but you may need to help them write their ideas on page 3.

Please keep these booklets at home and return them on Monday 8 December (not before). We will be reflecting upon these booklets and the ways in which the children reduce, reuse and recycle at home.

Recycling at UWCSEA

Unfortunately the Recycling Centre at school is only taking paper at the moment so please don not send in any materials for recycling. However, we still want all your CLEAN RUBBISH that the children can reuse in the classroom for models and construction.

WANTED!

We still need plastic bags of all colours for a special Art project so please do continue to send them in.

Leaving early for the holiday?

We are busy right up until the end of term and we do not encourage families to leave early for the holidays.  However, we do understand that it can be difficult to get flights at this busy time of year. If you do have to leave  before the last day of school (Friday 12 December), please let your child's teacher know so that items can be sent home on his/her last day.

You will receive your child’s report at the end of the final week of term. Unfortunately, if you are leaving early, you will not be able to have this ahead of schedule. However, you will be able to read the report on ePortal after Friday 12 December. The actual report will be posted to you.

End of Term Party - Thursday 11  December

Early next week you will receive a letter from the class teacher indicating what food items are needed for the party.

Please could you send food into school on the morning of Thursday 11 December. If you are at all concerned about what you have been asked to send in, please contact your child’s teacher as soon as possible.

This is a non-uniform day for Infant children. They may come to school wearing party clothes or festive colours.

Next Week

Maths

Running parallel to our number work will be a new unit on Data Handling and Probability.
Ways of classifying and sorting objects into given categories and counting the numbers of objects in each category will be explored. Questions will be asked: How can I organise and present the data I have collected? How do I use the information I have found?

Literacy

Our main areas of focus will be:
• Handwriting (numbers, name and ‘one armed robot letters’ r, b, n, h, m, k, p)
• Writing Workshop
• Reading Workshop
• High Frequency Words
• Phonics
• Vowels
• Blending and decoding of CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) e.g. mop, fan, pig and CCVC words e.g. plug, frog, trip.