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 Hi Everyone, I hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was spent watching Archie's last game of footy for the season and celebrating with the team at their wind up. They had an awesome season!!  As you know there are a lot of coughs and colds going around at the moment. We had 7 kids away today!!!  English Over the last fortnight we have looked at more letters and the sounds they make. Some of these sound have been digraphs (two letters making one sound). Our new sounds are: 'sh' as in shop (sh is a digraph) 'qu' as in queen (qu is actually made up of 2 sounds 'k' and 'w') 'ee' as in keep (ee is a vowel digraph - it is 2 vowels making 1 sound) 'z' as in zip 'zz' as in buzz (zz is a digraph and is found at the end of words) The other digraphs we now know are: 'ck' a in duck, 'll' as in bell, 'ss' as in kiss and 'ff' as in puff. We are starting to learn all about writing on lines called 'dotte

Hi Parents, I hope you enjoyed your weekend. We have a busy week coming up. Just letting you know that Miss P will be working Thursday (as usual) and Friday this week. I will be off to get a COVID vac on Friday as well as taking my daughter to get her high school uniforms!!! (Their uniform shop is only open when I work) I don't think I am ready for a high school kid!! Where did those years go??? English We are continuing our explicit literacy lessons using Initialit and the kids are so proud to show what they know. Last week we looked at the letter w as well as some 'diagraphs' (two letters making one sound). For example: 'ck' making the 'k' sound as in sick, 'ss' making the 's' sound as in kiss, 'ff' making the 'f' sound as in puff and 'll' making the 'l' sound as in bell. We have also learnt that there are some very special letters called 'vowels' that are found in almost every single word!!! The Vowe