Welcome back for Term 2 We hope everyone has had a relaxing holiday and a wonderful Easter.  We are looking forward to getting settled back into our routines and achieving our learning objectives for the term ahead. Literacy The phonics focus in literacy has been the double consonants; ll, ff, ss, zz.  W hen we read a double consonant, we just say one sound. i.e. hiss h-i-ss. We have now completed all the 'red' level sight words.  Please help you child to review these at home.  As of Week 2 we are beginning the 'blue' level sight words.     We are continuing to focus on reading and writing three letter words (CVC) i.e. cat, leg, big W e have also been learning about nouns -  a person, place or thing.  Check out the Noun Town we made!      Numeracy This week we have started to learn about volume. We focused on the language of volume including more than, less than, full and empty.  The children have been learning to partition numbers.  We lear