Dear Parents and Carers in Prep,

Welcome to the end of Term 3. As always, it has been a busy term and extremely hard to believe we only have one more term (8 weeks) left together! We have been working hard in each learning area and complete assessments as the term comes to an end and show what we have learnt. This term we welcomed our new amazing school officer Miss Madi and she has slotted in beautifully into our classroom.

In English we began our speaking and listening unit and introduced News. Students were on a weekly roster and chose to share about a favourite toy or adventure. As the term progressed it was wonderful to see the Preps speaking and listening skills of eye contact, tone, volume, body gestures and questioning improve. We are continuing to work through our explicit Initial Lit lessons and now know many digraphs and tricky words. Students are also beginning to use these words in their independent writing, which is amazing to see! Students are still enjoying rotation stations and each week their reading continues to improve as they are starting to recognise when and how to use expression.

In Maths we continued to collect and display data. We found out about pictographs, bar graphs and tally marks and learnt how to interpret most and least in the information. Students are also still working on their number sense and recognising and ordering numbers to and beyond 20.

In Religion students are learning about Old Testament stories including Gods promise to Abraham and Sarah. We are also enjoying participating in our daily prayer songs every day.

In HASS students discussed their favourite celebration and who was present, in Science we spoke about the diverse types of clothing to wear and why and in Technology students really enjoyed coding with the BeeBots.

This term we celebrated many fun days including Book Week, student led conferences, Rodeo Day dress up and NAIDOC week. We are looking forward to a final and busy term in Prep next term.

As always, please feel free to co tact me via Seesaw or at ttapper@cns.catholic.edu.au

Kind Regards,

Mrs Tash Tapper

Prep Teacher.