Prep Wonga Weekly

INFORMATION

🗓️ Upcoming Dates:

Friday 18th October: Springtime Soiree (parent fundraiser)

Thursday 31st October: Grandparents Day (see information below)

🗞️ News Groups:  Share a recipe of your favourite food (choose a recipe where the food has undergone a change eg. heat, mixing, combining, adding liquid)

*Please note: Prep A News Groups will be on Friday this term

Grandparents Day: Thursday 31st October

💧Drink Bottles

We have noticed that some students are coming to school without a water bottle. It is important that students bring a water bottle to school, especially as the weather is warming up, so please ensure your child comes to school with one. 

CURRICULUM

📚 Phonemic awareness: reading and phonics

Students will complete two UFLI sessions this week (4 lessons and an assessment).

Students will learn to read and spell longer words ending ing -ing and syllables. 

Students will read decodable words, phrases and texts. They will review the following heart words: been, into, friend

And learn the heart words: two, does, many, any

What can you do at home?

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

-Help your child learn to read and spell their Heart Words 

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

-Continue to revise sounds on the sound/letter ring

Optional UFLI Home Practice page (refer to the email for more information):

Monday & Tuesday learning: -ing

Wednesday & Thursday learning: syllables

📝 Literature: reading responses and writing 

The mentor text is a variety of information texts about frogs. We have chosen frogs to connect to our learning in biological sciences in CBL.Students will use these texts to form the basis of their literary responses, such as making text to text connections and completing a non fiction 'can, have, are' chart. 

They will also revise the conventions of sentence writing, such as writing a complete thought that has a capital letter at the start and boundary punctuation at the end (ie. full stop, question mark, exclamation mark). 

What can you do at home?

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

-Provide authentic opportunities for your child to write at home eg. writing birthday cards, shopping lists and keeping score in games.

🔢  Maths 

Students will explore the measurement concept of capacity by playing with different materials to fill, and empty, objects. They will look at informal ways of recording an objects' capacity and ordering the capacity of different sized objects. They will make connections to the concept of volume, by noticing if the object is full, half full or empty. 

Mathematical vocabulary used: full, half full, equal, same, amount, measure, container, estimate, fill up, tip out

What can you do at home? 

-Practise writing numbers at home, ensuring that numbers are not reversed! 

🌏 CBL - Curiosity

This term, we are exploring the Big Idea of 'Curiosity' using the following prompts:

Guiding Questions:  

What is curiosity? 

What helps living things grow and survive? (Biological Science)   

What causes things to change in the world? (Chemical Science)   

What changes do we see in the Earth? (Earth and Space)   

Essential Questions:  

Why do you need to be curious?   

How does curiosity help me learn about the world?  

Challenge:   

Be a curious scientist and share your discovery!  

This week, we will be coming together as a Prep community to create wonderings and watch a proposal movie. We also will begin our 'Curious Scientist' rotations to explore biological, chemical and earth / space sciences. Students will work in mixed prep groups, with the Prep teachers, to explore all of these areas each week. 

In each rotation, students will explore the following concepts this week:

Biological Science: Frog life cycles and habitats

Chemical Science: Making a frog bog with bi-carb and vinegar

Earth / Space Science: Exploring the solar system