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Congratulations students and families - 90% of our students have attended school 95% of the time.  The class with the highest attendance is awarded the privilege of caring for our school fish for the fortnight.  The Year 1 class are very determined to achieve this.  At the moment we have the second highest attendance, so we need to try just a little bit harder to achieve our goal.  The students were very excited to learn addition and subtraction this week.  We learned about keeping the largest number in our brain and counting on / counting back.  The students used an abacus and counters to participate in hands on activities focused on friends of 10.  We practised writing sums in our grid books and they loved it!  Next week we will explore how to measure the length of objects and the importance of having no gaps when using informal units of measurement (such as paddle pop sticks etc).  In Literacy, we learned a compound word is made up of two separate words.  Ask the students to give you an example of a compound word!  Overall, the students achieved very good spelling results for our tricky words.  A common error made was to mix up the spelling for were and where.  I have explained to the students that there is a hidden clue - "where" has "here" in it.  Where is my football?  Here it is!  Our tricky words to learn to spell for next week are: saw, friend, school, your, again, home.