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Personal and Families Histories

We will be learning about our personal and families histories this term so be prepared for some lovely, meaningful story/memory sharing with your little one. Today a note went home regarding history for Term 3. The note went as follows if you missed it.... 27 th July 2016 Dear Parents, Over Term 3 we will be engaging in various learning activities based on personal and family histories. We will look at what their personal history is, what stories people tell about the past and how stories of the past can be told and shared. For next week (week 3) could you provide your child with photographs/pictures of the people in their family (mother, father, siblings, grandparents’). We would like to keep and use the pictures so a photocopy or print out would be best. On the back of each picture please write the person’s name, age, year of birth and where they were born.  Please discuss how each person is related. Next week for news please help your child by preparing news r

Term 3

Welcome back to a new term. We hope everyone had a wonderful break!! It's lovely to see all of the kids beautiful faces and positive attitudes back again for more important learning. I will be in all this first week as Mrs Martin has some other commitments later this week. Our News Roster will go up next week. This week we will use the roster from last term and sharing will be spontaneous and free choice.  Daily writing will begin next week and we will keep the same days as last term. I have updated our parent information board (outside our classroom). Last term I began displaying information from 'Maggie Dent's: 9 Things - A Basic guide to calm, common-sense, connected parenting birth - 8'. Currently on the board is the information regarding the  '4th thing - Roosters and Lamb: Temperaments Matter'. Feel free to read it while you are waiting to pick up your child at the end of the day. ' Maggie Dent is an author, educator, and parenting and resilience