Prep L News

Welcome Back

We hope you had a Happy Easter holiday and enjoyed some quality family time.

Term Two is an exciting one with our Athletics Day, ‘Mother’s and Special Friends’ Celebration, along with our famous Friendship Fair Day.

Reminders

• Please label drink bottles, lunch boxes and jumpers (Term two is a good term for a raincoat to be left in school bags)
• Term 2 is Winter uniform
• Brainfood (fruit/ vegetable or yoghurt) is eaten at 10am every morning
• No nuts, please
• SPORT - Tuesdays and Thursdays
• LIBRARY - Tuesdays

STAR VALUES

• S - Stay Safe
• T - Try your best
• A - act responsibility
• R - Respect yourself and others

Assembly awards will be given out to students who demonstrate the STAR values.

Readers Homework

• Reader bags are to be returned to school on Fridays.
• Reader bags will be sent home with new readers on Mondays.

Please continue to support your child’s reading daily. We continually monitor and assess students’ reading in class and assign readers based on their areas of strength. Home readers are not meant to be challenging, but a resource to strengthen what they have learned,. You may wish to continue with some of the suggested holiday activities that were sent home focusing on handwriting and spelling.

Mathematics

• Location: The students will describe the position and location of themselves and objects in relation to other people and objects within a familiar space.
• Part / Whole: The students will partition and combine collections of up to 10 using part-part-whole relationships and subitising to recognise and name the parts
• Shape: The students will sort, name and create familiar shapes as well as recognise and describe familiar shapes within objects in the environment.
• Counting and place value: The students will name, represent, and order numbers, including zero to at least 20, using physical and virtual materials and numerals. They will quantify and compare collections to at least 20 using counting and explain or demonstrate reasoning

Science

Biological sciences

Living things have a variety of external features and live in different places where their basic needs, including food, water, and shelter, are met.

Earth and space sciences

Observable changes occur in the sky and landscape; daily and seasonal changes affect everyday life

Religion

Students will discuss and explain who they think

God is and their interactions/interpretations of God. Students will identify and explain ways to look after the environment. Students will explain how people are connected to the environment and ways to ensure we are protecting the environment we were provided

with.

English

Through our daily phonics lessons, the Prep students will continue to build their knowledge of letter/sound combinations. After mastering all initial single letter sounds we will delve into common digraphs, including /sh/, /ch/, /th/ and /ss/, /        / and /ll/.

Reading:

Our reading approach caters to all components of reading - phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Students will engage in weekly lessons that will allow them to apply their letter/sound knowledge to read appropriate decodable texts. We utilise well chosen texts that also promote fluency development. Our Term Two Core Knowledge Units are titled Stories and Plants. These units are rich in language and content, which support students in building their worldly knowledge as well as promote the use of rich vocabulary. These units are also used to support students' oral comprehension development.

Writing:

Our writing lessons are taught explicitly and sequentially. Students are engaged in a range of guided and independent writing opportunities. This term our focus is on students using their letter/sound knowledge to write words as well as building their confidence to attempt the spelling of unknown words by making appropriate spelling choices. A heavy focus will be on students building their understanding that a complete sentence needs to contain a ‘who’ and ‘what doing’ as well as a capital letter, full stop, and spaces.

Term Two Dates