Prep Update
Hillsmeade Primary School
Prep A-Ms Lloyd
Prep B-Ms Rhimes
Prep C-Ms Herres
Prep D-Miss Papa
Prep A-Ms Lloyd
Prep B-Ms Rhimes
Prep C-Ms Herres
Prep D-Miss Papa
Our Learning - Weeks 8 & 9
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL):
We will continue our learning around respectful relationships:
-To identify that some secrets should not be kept, including when someone is being hurt or being touched in a way that is not okay, or if someone is doing something wrong.
-To participate in games to build their sense of joy and connectedness to
others.
-To identify strengths they use to play and work well with others.
English:
-Revise Heart words and speed sounds with the use of our Chitter Chatter Chant cards.
-To recognise the /th/ sound, consisting of consonant digraph ‘th’ and identify words that have a /th/ sound in them (start/middle/end) and are spelt with the consonant digraph.
-To recognise the /ng/ sound, consisting of consonant digraph ‘ng’ and identify words that have a /ng/ sound in them.
-Continue to explore non-fiction texts and their features and compare them to fiction texts.
-Write their own information report on an Australian animal of their choice (Platypus, Blue-tongue lizard, Rainbow Lorikeet).
-Write sentences related to picture prompts.
-Our oral language focus is: images to promote the use of language and discussion, alliteration, rhyming.
Maths:
-To practise forming digits correctly and review prior learning.
-To count back to solve subtraction number sentences.
-To compare two objects using direct comparison and talk about objects using length vocabulary.
-To accurately measure the length of different objects using informal measuring tools.
Inquiry:
-We are celebrating and thinking about the Moonlit Sanctuary excursion.
-We will be learning about marsupials.
-We will be learning about reptiles that are native to Australia.
Friendly Reminders:
-Blue Reader bags- please send these to school with your child every day.
-Please send school summer hats with your child- Hillsmeade school hatsare required to be worn everyday at school during recess and lunch play (end of Term 3 and all of Term 4).
-Footy Day and last day of Term 3- Friday, 19th September.
-First day of Term 4- Monday, 6th October.
-Family-Teacher Conversations- open for booking now via Compass, for Oct 7 & 8 (Term 4, Week 1, Tuesday and Wednesday).
Please see our next page for our Moonlit Sanctuary photos!
