Prep

Welcome to Term 3 Oatlands families!

Throughout this term, the Prep community will be participating in so many exciting activities to extend current knowledge and inspire new concepts. The Prep team have had such a wonderful time getting to know the Prep students over the first semester and building their love for learning. 

Here are some fun things coming up in the Prep classrooms… 

Our literacy unit will be diving into narrative writing. This concept encourages students to use their imagination to write about characters, settings, problems and solutions. Over multiple lessons, students will design characters to write about, learn descriptive words to describe settings, and brainstorm problems that may occur in stories. 

In numeracy we are currently extending students' prior knowledge of data. This has been a fantastic way to link our Integrated topic of ‘discovery’ into our learning while exploring the Olympics. Using mathematical skills such as recording tally marks and graphing, students have been learning to measure and record results from their own results of various Olympic sports such as long jump, basketball, golf and volleyball.

Throughout the year thus far, we have also been counting our days of school. In our classrooms each day, students have been representing the number of school days in various ways such as in written and number form, tally marks, unifix, popsicle sticks and money. The excitement was overflowing through the prep cohort when we recently achieved this milestone - enjoy some pictures from the day!

 Some other exciting upcoming events include:

• Book Week
• Nude Food Tuesdays
• Father’s Day
• Grand Parents Day
• Excursion to TwistED Science

Thanks for such a positive first half of the year! 

The Prep Team.