Tips and Reminders

Reminders

Readers

Readers need to be returned every FRIDAY morning so that they can be changed and returned that afternoon.

To improve your child's reading skills, it is important that they read every night.

Remember that the readers are designed to be achievable and promote confidence in their abilities - to consolidate their learning rather than to challenge it.

Reading should be fun! An activity that opens up their world and their imagination - Enjoy it!

Sport uniform

Children from both 1/2 classes will need to wear their sport uniform on Thursday.

On all other days they need to wear their normal school uniform including black shoes and white socks.

Don't forget to wear your hat in Term 1 and Term 4

Talking about your day

Try asking a S.O.C.K question.

S.O.C.K. questions are:

Specific
Open-ended
Creative
Kid-friendly

If you want to know about your child's learning...

Can you teach me how to...?
What is one thing you learned today?
Can you tell me about a story you heard/read today?
What was your favourite thing you did at school today?
What is something that made you proud at school today?

If you want to know about your child's interests...

If you could be a teacher for a day, what you teach about?
If you became Prime Minister, what is the first thing you would do?
Who is someone you'd love to meet in real life?
If you could teleport anywhere, where would you go right now?

If you want to know about your child's feelings...

What is something that made you smile today?
If you could invent a new feeling, what would it be called? How would you describe it?
If your mood were a type of weather, what would it be? Would it be sunny, cloudy, stormy or something else?

Sometimes it can be hard to get information about the kids day out of them!Try to include some of these questions to get a conversation started about their day... What made you smile today?
What was the best part of your day?
What was the hardest part?
What did you do that was creative?
What's something nice someone did for you today?
Can you give me an example of kindness you saw/showed?
Who did you play with at lunch?
Tell me something you know today that you didn't know yesterday.
Did you make a good choice today?
What was the hardest rule to follow today?
What's something you learned today - in school or outside school?
If you could change one thing about your day, what would it be?
What was the funniest thing that happened today?
What made your teacher smile?
What kind of person were you today?

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is about focusing on the present moment and being aware of our sensations, thoughts and feelings.

Lots of meditations and breathing activities can be found on:

When Mindfulness is used with children it can:

Calm the mind & body
Increase focus & attention
Increase ability to learn
Reduce reactive behaviours
Develop self-awareness
Help them to tune into and manage their own emotions
Increase resilience
Lessen anxiety & stress
Provide a life long coping skill
Help them to enjoy more of the present moment

Finger breathing

- Hold out your hand and spread your fingers

- Using the pointer finger of your other hand trace along each finger.

- As you rise up the finger then breath in and then as you go down the other side of

the finger breath out.

- Breath in through your nose and then out through your mouth.

- Do this for each hand.

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