Prep Wonga Weekly

INFORMATION

🗓️ Upcoming Dates:

Monday 25th - Thursday 28th November: Prep Swimming (see reminder note below)

Entering classrooms during teaching time

If you need to drop something off to your child once the school day has started (ie. forgotten iPads, water bottles, etc after 9am), we ask that you please hand the item to the office. Lesley and Kerry will ensure that it gets to your child.

Entering the classroom during teaching and learning time can be disruptive to teaching and to children, especially those who are already feeling unsettled.

We thank you for your support with this.

🗞️ News Groups:My favourite Summer activity!

*Please note: Prep A News Groups will be on Friday this term

🏊🏼 Swimming this week

This week, there will be less contact hours in the classroom due to swimming, which is why this Wonga Weekly (and the curriculum that we will be able to get through) will be shorter.

CURRICULUM

📚 Phonemic awareness: reading and phonics

Students will complete one UFLI session this week (2 lessons and an assessment).

Students will learn to read and spell words where y makes a long 'e' sound at the end of two-syllable words.

Students will work with their fluency partner to read aloud and practise smooth reading.

What can you do at home?

-Assist your child to read their 'take home' book each night 

-Help your child learn to read and spell their Heart Words 

-Explore the Reading Eggs library and Fast Phonics to read decodable texts

-Continue to revise sounds on the sound/letter ring

Optional UFLI Home Practice page:  y spells e at the end of two syllable words

📝 Literature: reading responses and writing 

The mentor text will be Magic Beach by Alison Lester.Students will use this text to question, imagine and visualise. Writing responses will include labelling, writing sentences and creating a postcard about their own Magic Beach. 

Students will continue to practise handwriting formations on dotted thirds writing paper. 

What can you do at home?

-Reinforce correct entry and exit points for letters if your child writes at home

-Provide authentic opportunities for your child to write at home eg. writing birthday cards, shopping lists and keeping score in games.

🔢  Maths 

Students will revise known 2D shapes and their knowledge will be extended to shapes with more than 4 sides (eg. pentagon, hexagon, octagon, etc). They will sort and classify shapes, create shape pictures and compare real life objects to their closest 2D shape.

What can you do at home? 

-Continue to read numbers in your environment

-Practise writing numbers at home, ensuring that numbers are not reversed! 

🌏 CBL - Curiosity

This week, there will be no CBL in the afternoons due to our busy swimming week however, we will continue to have discussions about things we are curious about.