Prep Team News
with Caitlin & Georgia
Hello Prep families,
We can’t believe it is almost the end of Term Two! Our Preps are now half way through their first year at school. Thank you to our Willy Primary families for your continued support during a big and eventful term. Our Preps certainly deserve a well earned rest in the holidays! Please enjoy some photos below of the great work we’ve been doing this term.
Our Willy Kid focus this week is Willy Kids are Reflective Learners. Our Preps are reflective learners when they reflect on the tasks they have completed and think about how they can improve further to reach new learning goals. Looking back on this term, here are some photos of the fantastic crafts the Preps have been creating, linked to our focus letters/sounds.
100 Days of Prep
The hundredth day of school is coming up in Term Three, on Friday 1st August. We will be sending a note home in the coming week about this event. You may like to start thinking about a costume idea over the holidays, in preparation for our celebration day. Your costume could be party clothes, dressing as someone 100 years old or making something for the theme one hundred.
Last Week Of Term Two
Just a friendly reminder that in the last week of this term we have an early dismissal at 12:30pm on Tuesday 1st July, due to our parent-teacher interviews. Also, the last day of Term Two will be Thursday 3rd July, finishing at the normal time of 3:30pm. This will also be a Crazy Hair Day. We look forward to seeing all of the creative hairstyles!
Curriculum Focus: Weeks 9 - 10
Reading - Students will continue learning about appropriate reading behaviours, including pointing to the words as we read. They will also discuss text features such as full stops and capital letters. As part of our Little Learner’s program, students begin the year learning single letter sounds, with our current focus being the /k/ and /x/ sounds. To help us remember these sounds, we have met Kylie the koala and Max the fox. There are songs about these characters available online, which you may like to listen to with your child at home or in the car:
Writing - Students are learning to correctly form letters and use our sound knowledge to write sentences. This week we are focusing on forming the letters ‘k’ and ‘x’. We are also learning to read and write the heart words ‘she’, ‘he’, ‘we’, ‘to’, ‘do’ and ‘was’ this term.
Numeracy - Students are revising the days of the week. We are working on remembering the days of the week in order and being able to list some of the things we do on each day. We are also revising creating and copying repeating patterns. What kind of patterns can you make and copy?
Inquiry - As we draw closer to the end of the term we are wrapping up our Inquiry Unit, ‘What is Changing Around Us?’ Students are demonstrating what they have learned by drawing 3 things that they know can change, and also describing the different changes that we make when the seasons change.
Homework - Each Monday, students will be given an activity to complete at home that relates to our weekly sound or maths focus. The activity in their ‘Home Learning Book’ will be collected each Friday. Homework in Prep should take no longer than 15 minutes.
Have a great weekend and a lovely holiday break. For those coming to the parent-teacher interviews, we look forward to meeting with you.
Warm regards,
The Prep Team–Caitlin Sullivan (Prep S), & Georgia Grainger (Prep G)