Prep Wonga Weekly

INFORMATION

🗓️ Upcoming Dates: 

Wednesday 26th June: Curriculum Day

Thursday 27th June: Open Afternoon,  2.00 - 3.15pm

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

Monday 15th July: First day of Term 3, Week 1

🚪Open Afternoon

We are excited to open our classrooms to celebrate our learning about Country on Thursday afternoon. In the Prep rooms, we will be looking at the seven Wurrundjeri Seasons, native animals and which layer of Country they belong to and creating Aboriginal inspired artwork using symbols. 

Students who don't have an adult attending will remain in their classroom, with the classroom teacher present, to complete the activities.

💯💡 100 Days Brighter

Please find the flyer attached for some information about our 100 Days Brighter celebration. Remember that the date is now Friday 9th August!

🗞️ News Groups: No News Groups this week

CURRICULUM

Due to the shorter week, and our gardening sessions on Monday and Tuesday, there will be a reduced program.

📚 Literacy

In reading, students will read decodable words, phrases and texts, using their knowledge of sounds to segment and blend words.

In writing, we will reflect on our learning about Country and the most important.

In handwriting, students will revise the exit and entry points for 'the boss' letter u, and the related 'cousins' - y and w.

What can you do at home over the holidays?

-Help your child to read decodable books on the iPad - 'Pip and Tim' and 'Wiz Kids'

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

-Continue to revise sounds on the sound/letter rings

-Reinforce correct entry and exit points for letters if your child writes at home. We have attached the posters below for the letters we have revised so far: 

🔢  Maths 

This week, we will revisit subtraction to cement our understanding of taking away from a larger number to make a smaller number. Students will explore this through use a range of manipulatives (eg. unifix, counters, playdough, number lines, tens frames).

What can you do at home over the holidays? 

-Use Mathseeds on the iPad to explore revise number concepts 

-Use the app 'Friends of Ten' on the iPad to practise addition and subtraction

🌏 CBL - Country

Students will participate in completing the challenge to transform the 'Imagination Garden' to the 'Prep Welcome Garden'. Every child will spend time in the garden, doing things like raking, mulching, painting and planting.

Please see the email sent last week regarding all the details about how you can help!

Finally...

🌨️Happy Winter Holidays!

We hope you and your family have a cosy winter holiday! Thank you for a wonderful, rigorous term of learning alongside your child. We hope that you and your family get some well deserved 'down time'. See you next term!