Prep Wonga Weekly
Week 7, Term 4
INFORMATION
🗓️ Upcoming Dates:
Wednesday 20th November: Prep 2025 Orientation Day
Monday 25th Thursday 28th November: Prep Swimming week (Friday is a backup day)
Entering classrooms during teaching time
This is a gentle reminder that 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:Create something new from something old!
*Please note: Prep A News Groups will be on Friday this term
🍎 Prep 2025 Orientation Day
We have our final Prep transition day this week. Due to the longer session, Preps will work together in the BER with Mrs Dimitriou, Mrs Reynolds and a CRT.
Students need to head straight to the BER with their bags. They will return to the classroom for the last session of the day.
🏊🏼 Swimming next week!
We are swimming next week, so please help your child to prepare by encouraging these skills:
- Undressing and putting clothes back in their swimming bag and socks in shoes
-Drying themselves and putting dry clothes back on
-Keeping belongings together
Please ensure that all items are labelled, even underwear and socks! Items to label include:
-All school uniform items
-Goggles
-Swimming bag
-Towels and bathers
-Hair brushes (if needed)
-Swimming caps
-Underwear and socks
CURRICULUM
📚 Phonemic awareness: reading and phonics
Students will complete two UFLI sessions this week (4 lessons and an assessment next week).
Students will learn to read and spell long VCC words, and words with y/i at the end of one syllable words. They will read decodable words, phrases and texts containing these sounds, and previously learn sounds. They will learn the following heart words: move, both, four, fourth
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 and letter names on the sound/letter ring
Optional UFLI Home Practice page
Monday & Tuesday learning: Long VCC words
Thursday & Friday learning: y/i at the end of one syllable words
📝 Literature: reading responses and writing
The mentor text will be a multimodal text by the author Kym Lardner. We will notice how a speaker delivers their story with expression to engage the audience. Students will draw a picture as a prompt to retell a personal experience and experiment with features of voice.
-Students will continue to practise handwriting formations on dotted thirds writing paper.
-They will also practise editing skills by fixing up sentences by rewriting them correctly, ensuring there is a capital letter, spaces between words and punctuation at the end of the sentence.
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 extend their understanding of patterns. They will use numbers, colours, objects and shapes to continue and describe repeating and growing patterns.
What can you do at home?
-Play this online game:
https://www.abcya.com/games/shape_patterns
-Make patterns with objects around you eg. lego piece car, lego piece, car and keep it going! Can you make a growing pattern?
-Practise writing numbers at home, ensuring that numbers are not reversed!
🌏 CBL - Curiosity
In CBL rotations, students will be learning sustainable practises that can be implemented at school and home ♻️
In biological science, students will make bee feeders using recycled lids.
In chemical science, students will identify materials that can be changed, and remade or recycled into new products, eg.. paper and plastic.
In earth / space science, students will learn about Earth's resources and identify actions at school that can conserve resources, eg. turning off dripping taps.