Prep Wonga Weekly

INFORMATION

🗓️ Upcoming Dates: 

Wednesday 6th March: Assessment Day #5 - last one

Monday 11th March: Labour Day Public Holiday

Tuesday 12th March: Preps start full weeks at school

🏫 Morning drop off

We will be starting Reading Groups this week which means that we will be starting the day closer to 9am.  We would appreciate your continued support in dropping your child at the door. We are always at the classroom door between 8.50 to 9am if you need to speak to us.

🚗 Kiss and Drop

If you use the 'Kiss and Drop' sections of the car park (at the front of the school and in the car park), please remember that you need to stay with your car. It is disruptive to the traffic flow if cars are being left in these zones.

CURRICULUM

📚 Reading 

We will be starting Reading Groups this week. It is an initial exposure to the format, where students develop the ability to work in a group, work independently without teacher assistance and problem solve through challenges.

During this initial phase, students will be involved in a range of experiences including:

-Guided reading (intensive reading time with the teacher in a small group setting)

-Revising phonics 

-Completing tasks related to books

-CVC decoding

What can you do at home?

-Help your child read their take home book.

-Practise the Magic Words.

-Use the letters of 'SATPIN' and /c/ and /h/ to make CVC words and read them eg. nap, can, cat, nip, pin, etc. 

-Read to your child at bedtime. Ask them about the characters and setting in the story.

🔡 Phonics 

Students will learn about the letters 'c' and 'h' and their sounds. They will learn the cued articulation and brainstorm words that begin with 'c' and 'h'.

Now they know the letters of 'SATPIN', as well as /c/ and /h/, students will decode CVC words and complete related activities. 

What you can do at home?

-Ask your child to show you the cued articulation for 'c' and 'h' and the sounds they make.

-Discuss words that start with 'c' and 'h' , and the words that contain this sound. 

--Use the letters of 'SATPIN', /c/ and /h/ to make CVC words and read them eg. hat, pit, sip, sat, tap, pan, etc.

📝 Writing 

Students will focus on handwriting, particularly letters that go from top to bottom, including l, t and i.

What can you do at home?

-Help your child to write their name in 'school' writing - a capital letter followed by lower case letters. 

-Help your child to develop their pencil grip / pinch. See the images below as a guide.

-If your child enjoys writing at home, encourage correct formation of letters (particularly focussing on 'entry and exit' points - where the letter starts and finishes)

🔢  Maths 

Students will develop their understanding of number by practising subitising (recognising a collection without counting, such as dice dots). They will also order, build and make collections of numbers to assist with constructing flexibility and fluency with number sense. 

What can you do at home? 

-Play dice games together.

-Continue to count collections with 1-1 counting.

-Look at numbers, say their name and make a collection. Eg. "That is the number 5. Let's find 5 things and count them", etc. 

🌏 CBL - Community

Students will continue to focus on their Prep community. They will be introduced to the concept of 'Bucket Filling', which is a term that refers to positive attitudes and behaviours. It relies on the analogy that every person carries with them an invisible bucket. Over the year, your child may come home with a 'bucket filling' badge that is given out by the teacher. This is an acknowledgement of how their behaviours assisted their teacher or peers. 

What can you do at home?

-If your child comes home with a bucket filling badge, ask questions like: "How did you fill a bucket today?" "What did you do to get your bucket filling badge?" "How did it make your feel when you did that for something else?"