Dear Parents,
I can't believe we are already at the end of Term 1, it has definitely been a term we won't forget! Hopefully your past two weeks have not be too stressful and you have been able to enjoy some extra time with your children.
I wanted to say a big thank you to all of you for your support during these uncharted times. I have loved receiving different videos and voice messages from your child through Seesaw and it has been a great way to maintain positive relationships with each and every one of your children.
We have begun next term's planning with the decision that Seesaw will become our main communication and learning platform for the early years classes so we would appreciate a little of your time sometime over the holidays to become aware of the inbox and announcements section tab on the right hand side and as we will be posting messages each morning as a check-in or roll as it allows us to see who has viewed these.
Tasks to do will be in the lightbulb activities section and we are working on trying to merge all of the tasks into Seesaw to help reduce confusion of where to go and what to do. We will repost our introduction videos at the bottom of this blog for you to click on if you haven't yet become familiar with any of these learning platforms yet. Please note that all of these digital platforms can work from desktop computers, laptops, tablets, i Phones and iPad although older generation ipads seem to have a few limitations. Please let us know if you do not have access to any of these devices for your child.
Taking into mind some parent feedback, the Year 1 and 2 team have been busily planning our learning to start next term recording lots of lessons for your child to watch instead of heavy reliance on parent reading. We have decided to print out some of the the resources that you may like to have hard copies for Week 1 to reduce screen time requirements and hopefully some more independent based activities.
We have organised a scrapbook and an exercise book for you to collate online learning. You can use these books to glue in any activity sheets your child has completed and to complete any writing activities on the dotted thirds lined paper. You will also find that we have made up a smaller version of their desk mat with your child's name written within dotted thirds, alphabet letters, a number line and on the back a 120 number grid and some sentence writing prompts.
We are going to 'magpie' copy Mrs Murphy's idea and have their new books ready to be hand delivered by us for you collect from your cars through the school's Cape Nat pick up lane area on the last weekend of the holidays on Sunday 26th April between 9 and 10am and we will send out a text message closer to the date as a reminder. If you are unable to come at that time or would prefer not to, then please let me know, keeping in mind we will also leave them in our class boxes outside the ECC doors next to Mrs King's 1/2 classroom for collection for the rest of the day on Sunday before Monday 27th April.
Please feel free to email if you have any questions at all.
We wish you all a very happy Easter and an enjoyable holiday and please know how much I miss seeing your beautiful children each day!
Take care of each other.
Miss Prowse
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