Prep Team News

Hello Prep families,

What a fabulous fortnight in Prep we have had! Last week we walked and visited the Williamstown Library and celebrated the 100th day of Prep on Friday. 

Our Willy Kid theme this fortnight is ‘Willy Kids are Brave’. We read ‘Jetty Jumping’ by Andrea Rowe and shared stories of moments where we have felt scared. We then discussed strategies that helped us to be brave such as asking for help, trying again and receiving encouragement from others. 

Williamstown Library Visit

As part of our Inquiry unit, 'What's My Story? What's Your Story', the Prep students are learning about the different ways stories can be told.  To support this, we visited the local Williamstown Library last week to learn about the different types of stories there are and the different ways they can be told. The librarians shared a range of different books including a book without pictures and a book with no words. We sang songs and learnt some simple Auslan signs that allow us to communicate using our hands. The Preps were also treated to a tour of the library and shown how to borrow and return books. Thank you to our wonderful parent helpers that walked with us to the library and joined us for the activities. 

100 Days of Prep 

Last week we celebrated the 100th day of Prep on Friday 2nd August. It was wonderful to see the creative costumes that students chose to wear including lots of 100-year-old people, 100 items sewn on shirts and some great party clothes. We celebrated the day with lots of fun activities including a parade, making fairy bread and counting tubs of objects to work out which had 100 items in it. We are so proud of our Preps and the wonderful achievements that they have made after just 100 days at school. Congratulations to our students and their families on a great achievement. We cannot wait to see what the next 100 days brings! 

Inquiry: What’s My Story? What’s your story?

As part of our inquiry unit this term, the Preps are looking at the different ways stories can be told. This week, we read ‘Letters to Felix’ and discussed how we can communicate and tell stories by writing letters. The Preps have been working hard to write a letter to their families about their day at school. Shortly we will be walking to our local letterbox to post the letters home to families. Keep an eye out for a letter delivery arriving in the next couple of weeks!! 

Term Three Specialists

This Term, all Preps will attend Specialist classes. These include Visual Art, Music, French  and Physical Education. Please see the weekly timetable below.

Parents, could you please support your child to return their library books on their given day. Please also ensure your child is dressed in their P.E. uniform and is wearing runners on the day that they have P.E. Students remain in their P.E. uniform for the entire day. 

Curriculum Focus: Weeks 3 - 4

Reading - Students will continue learning about appropriate reading behaviours, including pointing to the words as we read and taking a breath at full stops. They will also discuss text features such as full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks and question marks. As part of our Little Learner’s program, students are now beginning to explore digraphs. Our current focus is on CCVC and CVCC words.

Writing - Students are continuing to develop their letter formation and sound knowledge to write sentences. In particular this term, students will be reading narrative texts as a class. Students will then summarise these stories by writing a few sentences about the characters, setting, problem and solution from each text. 

Numeracy - Students are exploring the concepts of money and time. For our money topic, we are learning about each of the different Australia notes and coins, and their values. Our time topic is revising days of the week, along with exploring time to the hour. 

Inquiry - This term, our inquiry topic is What's My Story? What's Your Story'. The Prep students are learning about the different ways stories can be told.

Homework - Each Monday, students will be given an activity to complete at home that relates to our weekly sound or maths focus. The activity in their ‘Home Learning Book’ will be collected each Friday. Homework in Prep should take no longer than 15 minutes.  

Respectful Relationships - This term, our Respectful Relationships topic is gender and identity. Activities will assist students to reflect on their gendered identity, develop an awareness of positive and negative gender norms, challenge negative gender norms and develop an appreciation of difference.

Prep: Key Dates Term Three

Have a lovely weekend. 

Warm regards,

The Prep Team–Caitlin Sullivan (Prep S), Hayley Thibou (Prep T) & Andrea Duxson (Prep D)