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Last week was another fun-filled week writing letters to Santa and making Christmas crafts. We have also made a lot of progress in phonics and writing. As the kids are getting older, they are now able to recognise letters and say the corresponding sounds. As a home activity - please help your child practice their phonics by listening to this song: Phonics Song.You can stop the video at any letter and test their knowledge of the sounds that they know. You can take it one step further by asking them to think of other words beginning with the same letter/sound.

You can also continue to help your child write by asking them to write a letter to Santa or write in a Christmas card. Let them talk about what they are writing and make any marks that they can, it can be words or just letters. It is important to let them develop their mark making skills independently. This paper talks about the important steps children naturally take when learning to write:

http://www.otterbein.edu/Files/pdf/Education/JTIR/VolumeVIII/Byers-Spurlock.pdf

Thank you to the parents who sent in pictures and copies of their children's homework from last week! It is just great to see how they are progressing at home, as well.

Here are some pictures of the work we have been doing in the last week. Here we are practicing writing:

The kids decorated our tree and it looks great!

We decorated stockings using our fingers to make the patterns.

Snowmen using playdough!

Wrapping gifts to put under the tree. This was great to see as our kids did not have the same fine motor skills at the start of the year. Now, they are able to break off tape, wrap the gift and hold it in place (without any guidance!).