Prep News

What we've been up to in Prep!

Ballarat Wildlife Park

What a fabulous day we had on our excursion to the Ballarat Wildlife Park! The Preps had a wonderful time seeing all of the animals and feeding the kangaroos. 

Maths 

We have been loving practising descriptive language by playing 'Hide and Seek'. We both start with the same amount of  blocks, in the same colour. Then one person builds something without their partner seeing. They then describe it to their partner so that they can follow the instructions and build the same thing. 

Upcoming Dates

Friday 12th September: Footy Colours Day

Friday 19th September: Last day of Term 3, 2.15pm finish

Holiday Activities

To continue your child's learning over the holidays and give them the best start to Term 4 you can: 

• continue to get your child to practise their readers every day 
• practise reading and writing the Heart Words we have learnt this year (see below and in your child's Reading Log Book for the ones they need to learn specifically)

• practise writing sentences using a capital letter at the beginning, a full stop at the end, and finger spaces in between each word. Make the sentences more exciting by including information such as 'when?' 'where?' 'doing what?' 

• practise counting from 1-20 and 20-1
• practise the ways to make each number to 20, such as 14= 10 and 4, 7 and 7, 12 and 2 etc
• practise recognising the number before and the number after for each number to 20
• practise automatically recognising each numeral to 20
• practise adding groups of objects together
• practise sharing objects evenly into groups.

Upcoming Learning: Term 4

Literacy 

In Week 1, we will be learning about the sound that /wh/ and /ph/ make and reading the story Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak.  In Week 2, we will be learning the first sound in Stage 7, 'ai' / 'ay'. We will be reading The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson. 

Our heart words will be 'where' and 'what'.

Mathematics

In Week 1 and 2, we will be revising and continuing our understanding of addition using strategies such as counting on, using tens frames, using our fingers, drawing pictures and using a number line. 

Topic 

In Week 1 and 2, we will begin our topic of Our Community. We will learn about people who help us in our community such as posties, paramedics, doctors, nurses, SES and firefighters.

In Respectful Relationships we will be starting our units on Gender norms and stereotypes & Positive gender relations. 

Maths Challenge

Congratulations to 3/4 Mitchell for winning our final Maths Challenge of Term 3! 

We will be posting our next challenge in the first newsletter of Term 4.