Dear Parents / Caregivers

Welcome to week 6 of Term 2. The Prep students all did a wonderful job at the Athletics Carnival.

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, you, he, she, we, be, me and said,”. The story for the week is Mr McGee Goes to sea. 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?   

Library books and Home readers:

Inside the folder will be a Reading Log sheet or your Reading Log book.

Please sign the sheet/ book every time that you read with your child. For example if you read the same book 3 times please indicate it on the sheet.

Please find below some reading strategies that you could use at home and a tricky word poster.

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 measuring to identify which container’s capacity is more or less.  Students are starting to make connections between the days of the week to familiar events and actions.

Miss Knight