Prep News
Term 4, Week 2
Spring Gully Primary School
Key Dates
Grandparents Day: October 23rd (11.30-1.30pm)
Bendigo Cup Public Holiday: October 28th
Be Awesome Day/Colour Run: October 30th
Important Information
Swimming form:
If you haven't already, please return your childs swiming form. These were sent home in reading satchels, last week.
Be Awesome Day:
As you may be aware, our annual ‘Be Awesome Day’ is almost upon us (Friday, October 31st). The Prep classrooms will be running three stalls. Our students have voted for the three stalls they would like to run (Face painting, Guess the Jelly Bean & Sandpit Lucky Prize). To help run these stalls were are kindly asking for donations. Below is a list of things you could donate:
-Jelly Beans
-Assorted chocolates and lollies (individually wrapped)
-Blocks of chocolate.
We are kindly asking for volunteers for our three Prep Be Awesome Day stalls. Please refer to Mrs Greene's compass post for more information. If you are able to volunteers, there will be sign up sheets outsidet the Prep classrooms each afternoon.
What we've been up to in Prep!
Upcoming Learning
Literacy
During week 3, we will begin learning about long vowel sounds in Stage 7.1, 'ee' and 'ea'. Our book of the week is 'Squash and a Squeeze'. In week 4, we will learn the sound '-y' makes. Our book of the week is 'The Ugly Five'.
Our heart words will be 'they' and 'like'.
Mathematics
In Week 3 we will begin our learning about subtraction, and in Week 4 we will review our fact families.
Topic
In Week 3 and 4, we will continue the topic of Our Community. We will learn about people who help us in our community such as firefighters and police.
In Respectful Relationships we will continue our units on Gender norms and stereotypes & Positive gender relations.
Maths Challenge!
Well done to our School Holiday Maths Challenge winners - Prep Morlock! Please find the new Maths Challenge below!
