Wow!  What a fabulous fortnight we have had in Prep! In the last two weeks we have been working hard in Prep. The students have shown just how responsible and independent they are as they adjust to the expectations of learning in our classroom. 

We have started our InitiaLit lessons and have explored early literacy skills including word awareness, syllables, rhyming words and some initial sounds.  We have also focussed on sounds through our oral phonogram review and have started to discover blending and segmenting sounds in words. We love shared reading and discuss what we liked (or didn’t like) about the story. We are beginning to learn to write and draw a written response. 

In maths, we have been practising our counting skills to 20 with a stable number order, subitising collections, partitioning numbers and 2D shapes.  

We are continuing to examine the needs of living things in Science and this week we used our playdough to create a pretend animal and provide it with all the things it needs to survive. It was lots of fun!  Another fun learning activity we engaged in was ‘crazy hair’ pictures. We made these as we explored line as an element of art.