Dear Parents / Caregivers

Welcome to week 4 of Term 2. It has been a busy start to the term. We would like to thank all the parents and caregivers who attended the Prep assembly. The Preps did a wonderful job!

English:

Students are participating in reading simple text using the sounding out strategy for decoding unfamiliar words. The second tricky list has been introduced to the students which included the words: “a, I, the, is, my, that, they, was and on,”. The story for the week is Wombat Stew. 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, finger spaces between words and ending a sentence in a full stop.

During guided reading students are asked comprehension questions such as: What do you think the story is going to be about? What are the characters feeling? Why do they feel like that? Where is the story taking place? Ect.  

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.  Students are starting to make connections between the days of the week to familiar events and actions.

HASS: People Live in Places

The objectives are as follows:

• To investigate the importance of the places students live and to explore the people who make up families.
• To identify schools as special places.
• To explore each student's responsibility in caring for their school environment.
• To represent places on simple maps.
• To examine the different groups people belong to, why these groups are important and how these groups celebrate.
• To identify that their place is also the place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
• To appreciate the responsibility of all people to care for our natural environment.

Andrieka