Just to reiterate Mrs Masterman's 'Happy New Year' wishes and many thanks for all the lovely cards and presents you gave at Christmas - they were much appreciated.
We had a great first week back at school, beginning our theme of Australia! The children have started finding out about Australia and looking at maps and have started learning about Aboriginal Art. They experimented with 'dot' painting and began to look at the meaning of symbols in Aboriginal art work. Over the next few weeks we will be making our own Aboriginal art using acrylic paints on fabric!
In Literacy we are looking at stories from Australia, including animal stories and Aboriginal dream time stories.
In maths we are working on addition and subtraction, problem solving reasoning and algebra and multiplication and division. In addition to this one of our sessions will be our 'Thinking Things Through' maths.
In our theme work we will be looking at the history of the Aboriginal people.
Thanks to those of you who have brought in books and photographs about Australia, they really help bring our theme work 'alive'!
Happy Learning! JJJJJJJ
It sounds like you are going to be super busy class 2. I can't wait to see the art work. Have fun!
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