Dear Parents and Caregivers,  

Our last term of Prep has started very well, with lots of learning and fun! 

In Literacy we have been practicing writing a retell of a story that we have read, including 3 Billy Goats Gruff and Giraffes Can’t Dance. This week we have also read Little Red Riding Hood and created a story map which we are integrating with our Digital Technology Unit. We have also introduced new phonograms /wh/ /oo/ and /ng/. 

The students were very excited to be introduced to the Ozobots in Digital Technologies, we have learned about simple coding and used the Ozobots as the characters for our story map that we created in Literacy. 

In Maths we have introduced addition, subtraction and sharing and learned to use strategies such as number lines, counting forwards and backwards. 

In Health with Mr Simmons the children have been participating in the Daniel Morcombe Child Safety program, please refer to email sent to parents on Thursday for more details on what they are leaning. 

Our library day is Wednesday, please encourage your children to bring their library bag to school on this day, they will bring two readers home, please read with them as often as you are able to assist in developing their reading skills.  PE will continue on Thursday this term so students can wear their sport uniform on this day. 

We are looking forward to a fast but eventful term, as always please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. 

Andrieka Knight