Prep 

INFORMATION

🐻🧺 Teddy Bears' Picnic: This Wednesday, 11th June!

📸 Showbie

Ask your child to show you their Showbie account — there,  you will find examples of their UFLI dictated writing, independent writing and some maths tasks. It’s a wonderful way to see how your child is progressing and to celebrate all the fantastic learning they’ve achieved so far!

🗣️ Show and Share

Topic: A Travel Souvenir

🎨 Specialist timetable

CURRICULUM

📚 Phonemic awareness: reading and phonics

We’re learning about the letter W as an initial sound (as in wig) and J (as in jug). Students will explore the phonemes (the sounds they makes), the graphemes (how they are written with correct formation) and the matching cued articulation action.

In addition, students will practise reading and writing CVC and CVCC/CCVC words using all the short vowels.

We’ll also review our Heart Words: he, be, me, from, look, book, are and learn the word, was.

What can you do at home?

-Help your child read the take-home book, decodable passages, or CVC word cards from their book pocket together. **Aim for fluency by the second day of reading.

-Enjoy bedtime stories with your child to build vocabulary and a love for reading.

-If you're interested in learning about Cued Articulation, you can watch this helpful video by Jane Passey (the founder), where she explains and demonstrates each sound: Cued Articulation with Jane Passey

-Work through the optional UFLI home practice pages if you’d like some extra phonics practise at home.

📝 Literature: reading responses and writing 

Our Mentor Text is the beautifully illustrated story Our Family Dragon by Rebecca Lim. The book follows a family as they prepare to welcome the new year with traditional foods, decorations and a spectacular dragon parade. Inspired by the story, students will create a mind map about the important aspects of Chinese New Year, take part in a See, Think, Wonder activity to spark discussion and curiosity and reflect on their own special family events and traditions. To finish the week, of course they’ll create their very own dragon!

In Writing, students will continue using the letters they’ve learned so far to write simple sentences based on picture prompts. We’ll also be linking our writing to ideas from our Mentor Text. This week, we’ll focus on practising the correct formation of the letters W and J, while revising all the letters we’ve introduced throughout the year.

What can you do at home?

-Play with things that develop fine motor skills like lego, playdough, drawing and building blocks.

-Help your child develop their pencil grip.

-Encourage your child to write simple sentences about a picture in a book or something they see around them.E.g. “The cat is on the mat.”

Letters/sounds we know: A, M, S, T , P, F, I, N, O, D, C, U, G, B, E, K, H, R, L W and J

-Help your child sound out simple words when writing, reminding them to use the letter sounds they’ve learned and put a finger space between words.

🔢  Maths 

This week in Maths, we will continue exploring part-part-whole thinking. Students will focus on subitising parts within numbers to 5 and 10, describing the parts of numbers to 5 using a five-frame, and describing the parts of numbers to 10 using a ten-frame. They will also practise identifying how many more are needed to make numbers to 5 and 10. These tasks are designed to help students build a strong sense of number, develop number flexibility and strengthen important mental maths skills.

What can you do at home? 

-Use everyday objects like buttons, grapes, or Lego blocks to practise breaking numbers into parts. For example, “I have 5 grapes — how many are in this bowl and how many are in my hand?”

-Play simple number games like rolling a dice and seeing how many different ways you can make that number using two or three parts.

-Ask 'how many more?' questions during play or snack time. For example, “You have 3 crackers — how many more do you need to have 5?”

-Use puzzles or stacking toys to practise combining and separating groups of items.

🌏 CBL - Diversity

Our CBL content will be thoughtfully integrated into our Mentor Text sessions this week.

💻 Cyber Safety

 💛 Wellbeing & School Wide Positive Behaviour (SWPBS)

Our SWPBS focus continues to be on the expectations of ‘Be Kind’, ‘Be Safe’, and ‘Be a Learner’. The students have been doing a wonderful job showing these positive behaviours around the school and have loved receiving tokens as recognition for their efforts. It’s been lovely to see how proud they are when they’re acknowledged for being kind friends, safe classmates, and enthusiastic learners.