Prep Overview of Learning

The Prep classroom teaching staff and room numbers are as follows:

Prep A (Room 15): Olivia La Selva (Classroom Teacher) 

Prep B (Room 17): Natalie Tenuta (Classroom Teacher) 

Prep C (Room 16): Antonietta De Melis (Classroom Teacher - Mon, Tues, Wed) & Meghan Kosmas (Classroom Teacher - Thurs and Fri) Ella Holmes (Teacher of the Deaf) 

Prep D (Room 14): Ashlee Sinclair (Prep Team Leader & Classroom Teacher - Mon and Fri)Sam Taylor (Classroom Teacher - Tues, Wed and Thurs) 

This Term's Learning in Prep

English

In Reading and Viewing, students will: 

• Review learnt common sounds for the letters of the alphabet 
• Learn some common digraphs (two letters that make one sound eg. ck, sh, ch, th) 
• Read decodable and authentic texts developing their comprehension and phonic knowledge 
• Discuss the similarities and differences between fiction and non-fiction texts 
• Make connections between stories they read 

In Writing, students will: 

• Continue to practise forming upper and lower case letters correctly 
• Draw pictures to show meaning 
• Write letters that match the corresponding sounds 
• Use capital letters and full stops in a sentence 

Mathematics

In Maths, students will: 

• Learn how to read, write and make teen numbers 
• Add and subtract small collections together 
• Sequence days of the week and connect them to familiar events 
• Recognise and find simple 2D shapes in the environment

Humanities

In our Term 3 inquiry unit, “My Community”, students will  identify what ‘safety’ means to them and determine the feelings involved in familiar safe and unsafe situations. They will explain actions that they and others can take to help keep them safe in familiar environments. Through a series of community helper visits, children will identify members of their community that help them stay safe.

Key Questions the students will explore are: 

• What is safety? 
• What does it feel like to feel safe and unsafe? 
• How do I stay safe in the community? 
• Who can help me to stay safe in the community?

READING AT HOME: 

Thank you to all our families who have been supporting regular home reading with the readers. Teachers will organise the change of books weekly. Please remember each teacher may have one day where they may choose to keep the Home Reading Log/books overnight to read the comments, sign the Home Reading Log and exchange books. We ask that families prioritise reading the take home readers and ensure these are recorded four times each week in the Yellow Reading Log so teachers can confirm regular reading of these texts is occurring. We encourage smooth reading of words as students become more confident (less sound decoding), as well as continuing to track under the words with their finger. 

Please encourage these behaviours throughout the week when you read at home with your child.

Prep Important Dates 

Production dance rehearsals: Fridays all term 

Swimming: weeks 2, 3 and 4. 

Three Way Conferences: Wednesday 5th August 

Book Week: Wednesday 26th August 

Curriculum Day:  Wednesday 19th August 

Fire Fighters incursion: Friday 28th August and Monday 31st August 

Father's Day Stall: Thursday 3rd September 

RGLPS Production: 

        A-K: Wednesday 9th September 

        L-Z: Thursday 10th September 

- Prep Assembly (Weeks 1, 5, 10) 

Home Readers: Please send your child's maroon reading folder including the reading log and homework book every day. Please check these daily as important notices and work will be sent home in them and also remember to empty these of any work or notices daily. 

Prep Assembly: This will be held this term on a Thursday morning at 9:10am in weeks 1, 5, 10. 

Lost property: There is a Prep Lost Property tub located in the Prep building as you enter the toilets on the left. Any lost property that is left in the building unnamed will be placed in here. 

Prep Specialist Timetable Term Three

* Please ensure students wear comfortable runners and appropriate shorts/pants on the day your child is scheduled to have PE.