Prep Wonga Weekly

INFORMATION

🗓️ Upcoming Dates: 

Tuesday 4th June: Childsafe Volunteer Training Session from 5:15pm (see previous newsletter for details)

Monday 10th June: King's Birthday Public Holiday

Wednesday 26th June: Curriculum Day

Friday 28th June: Last day of Term 2, finish at 2.20 / 2.30pm

📚 Victorian Premiers' Reading Challenge

Your child has brought home an information page and login details for the Victorian Premiers' Reading Challenge. You will find it in your child's book pocket. Every child in the school has been registered but participation is optional. If you would like to participate, follow the steps to enter your books. Happy reading!

🗞️ News Groups: How my family cares for Country (eg. composting, recycling, harvesting food, thrift shopping)

Please help your child prepare by talking about how they are going to share this information with their group. 

CURRICULUM

📚 Phonemic awareness: reading and phonics

Students will read decodable texts, using their knowledge of sounds to segment and blend words. We will look at some 'irregular' words, and discuss the parts of the word that need to be learnt 'by heart'.

We will listen to nursery rhymes and listen for the rhyming pairs. Students will manipulate letters to write and read CVC rhyming pairs.

Students will learn about the double letters of 'ff', 'll', 'ss', 'zz'.

What can you do at home?

-Help your child to read their decodable 'take home' book each night

-Explore the Reading Eggs library and Fast Phonics to read decodable texts

-Continue to revise sounds on the sound/letter rings

-Talk about words that rhyme. Provide a word for your child to rhyme with eg. 'cat' and say / write as many rhyming words as you can

📝 Literature: reading responses and writing 

The mentor text this week is Tom Tom by Rosemary Sullivan. Students will use this text to form the basis of their writing experiences, like comparing themselves to the main character, Tom Tom, and responding to a visual prompt from the story. 

Students will revise the exit and entry points for lower case letters, starting back at 'a'. They will look at 'the boss' - c and the related 'cousins' - a, d, g, o and 

What can you do at home?

-Engage in fine motor tasks such as sorting, threading, writing, colouring, making, building, play dough and painting 

-Reinforce correct entry and exit points for letters if your child writes at home

-Practise lower case letter formations on the app 'red writing'

🔢  Maths 

This week, we will expand on the concept of subtraction. Students will use tools like tens frames, number lines and unifix to take away from a larger number to make a smaller number. We will begin with using the vocabulary of 'take away' and 'is/makes' to say and create number sentences. They will learn the strategy of 'count back' to help them. They will also create number stories using their iPads and playscapes to demonstrate their understanding. 

What can you do at home? 

-Use Mathseeds on the iPad to explore subtraction concepts

-Make a large group (eg. toys, cars, lego etc) and take away to make a smaller number. Use the count back strategy when you do this!

🌏 CBL - Country

Students will visit the Imagination Garden to clean it up, in preparation for bringing Country to the garden. 

👯 Friendology

Some classes didn't complete lesson 4 as advised in a previous Wonga Weekly. We will complete 'Friendship Facts' this week. 

Parent Helpers

For those parents wishing to volunteer for any activity in and around school, but who have yet to complete their 'Childsafe Volunteer Training Session' an additional session will be held online tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday 4/6) at 5.15pm. The link and meeting number below will get you in to the training session, which will be run by Adele Brice.

Childsafe Volunteer Training Session-

https://eduvic.webex.com/eduvic/j.php?MTID=ma799d08a7644b999cebfe9f02112349d

Meeting number: 2653 898