INFORMATION

🗓️ Upcoming Dates:

Monday 5th August: 100 Days Brighter!

Wednesday 7th August: Parent, Student, Teacher conferences, 3.45 - 8pm

Wednesday 7th August: Payment due for Fairytale Fiasco Incursion ($23 via Sentral portal)

Thursday 8th August: Parent, Student, Teacher conferences, 3.45 - 6pm

Friday 9th August: Staff Professional Practice Day - student free day

Monday 12th August: Fairytale Fiasco Incursion

🗞️ News Groups: My ‘100 Days Brighter’ collection

**Please note: this News Groups will be shared on Monday the 5th - the day of our celebration!

📚 Term 3 timetable change - weeks 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6

Here is a reminder of the specialists classes for each Prep grade. *Remember that Prep A library / Auslan sessions will be on Friday for the next 5 weeks.

🏰 Boxes for STEM creation

In week 7, we will be creating a fairy tale creation! We would love it if each family could donate 2 - 3 cardboard boxes to their classroom. (We have moved the date from week 4 to week 7, to match up with our fairy tale sequence).

🤸🏽 Gymnastics

Thank you to those parents who have volunteered their time to help us with this program. An email will be sent out to our parent volunteers each Monday as a reminder of the upcoming session you have offered to help with.

A few things extra things to consider for our Gymnastics program:

-For ease of movement, tracksuit pants or leggings are best to wear for these sessions

-Please ensure that your child brings a named water bottle

-All long hair should be tied back for our gymnastics sessions

-Velcro or buckles are best for gymnastics days, if your child is unsure about how to tie their shoes

CURRICULUM

📚 Phonemic awareness: reading and phonics

Students will complete one UFLI session this week, rather than two, due to our busy, shortened week. Students will learn about the grapheme 'wh' which spells /w/ and 'ph' which spells /f/.

Students will read decodable words, phrases and texts. They will look at some 'irregular' words, and discuss the parts of the word that need to be learnt 'by heart'.

What can you do at home?

*Assist your child to read their decodable 'take home' book each night* (see note below about re-reading books)

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

-Continue to revise sounds on the sound/letter rings, and high frequency words

📝 Literature: reading responses and writing

The mentor text this week is the fairytale, Rumplestiltskin. Students will use this text to form the basis of their literary responses, like analysing the elements of fairy tales and creating their own puppet show to form an oral and visual retell.

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.

-Practise lower case letter formations on the app 'red writing'

🔢 Maths 💯

Students will explore the concept of 100, to tie in with our 100 Days Brighter celebration. They will count to 100 in different ways, make 100 by making ten groups of 10, investigate and discover the patterns within a hundreds chart, write numbers and play games.

What can you do at home?

-Look out for numbers in your home that are larger than 20. Can you read / say them?

-Practise writing numbers at home, ensuring that numbers are not reversed! See the poster below which shows the correct entry and exit points for number formation.

-Continue to talk about teen numbers including how to read and say them.

🌏 CBL - Respect

We will explore fairytales in greater depth, looking at the elements that make up a fairy tale. We will talk about heroes, villains and the messages we will learn from fairy tales. As a class, we will analyse a fairy tale that we have looked at so far, and then students will have a go at analysing another fairy tale with a partner.

*A note about re-reading take home books ... and why it's OK if your child brings home the same book!

Sometimes, your child might forget to change their take home book or choose one that they have read before. Did you know ... this is actually a good thing! Fluency is the main aim of oral reading, and one way fluency occurs is when automaticity* has been achieved (*the quality or fact of being performed involuntarily or unconsciously, as a reflex, innate process, or ingrained habit). One way we can develop automaticity in reading is to have multiple practice opportunities.

We have included a link below which provides more information about this:

https://phonicshero.com/automaticity-in-reading/

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Term 3, Week 4 · 05 Aug 2024

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