Dear Parents/Caregivers 

Welcome to Term 2. We have another busy term ahead of us. The Prep students are excited to be hosting the Mother’s Day assembly in week 3, Friday the 10th of May.  

English: 

Students are participating in reading simple text using the sounding out strategy for decoding unfamiliar words. The first tricky list has been introduced to the students which included the words: “a, I, the, is and my”. Students are making connections to texts. The story for the week is Pig the Winner. Where students identify their favourite part, get introduced to new vocabulary and express their opinions about the text. Students are also starting to write down their own words using the sounding out strategy, demonstrating beginning writing behaviors such as writing left to right.  

Mathematics: 

Students will continue to connect number names, quantities and numerals. We will start partitioning the number 5, 10 and then beyond. The students are introduced to measurement, where they are completing informal length measuring to identify which item is long and which is shorter.  

Science: 

The Weather in my world unit is an ideal way to link science with literacy in the classroom. Students’ beliefs and understandings about the air, Sun and wind will be developed as they work through hands on activities. Through investigations, they will increase their knowledge of how the characteristics of weather affect their daily lives. 

Andrieka.