Prep Wonga Weekly

INFORMATION

🗓️ Upcoming Dates for August & September: 

Monday 26th: Pyjama Fundraiser -please bring a gold coin to contribute to the fundraiser!

Friday 30th: Father's Day Breakfast

Friday 6th September: 'Fairytale Fiasco' Incursion

Wednesday 11th September: Prep Concert

Friday 18th October: Springtime Soiree (see poster for details). This is our biggest fundraiser for the year and we would love to see you there (finally, an event for the parents!).

🗞️ News Groups: My dad / grandpa is special because ... Share something special about your special person

📚 Term 3 timetable

Now that gymnastics is finished, we are back to our original timetable. Prep A Library / Auslan is back on Thursday from now on.

📚 The Book Fair is coming!

The Book Fair will be held from the 2nd - 6th September and we would love some parent helpers to run it. If you have previous experience, or would like to learn, we would be grateful if you would consider helping this year. Please see Julie Barnden if you are interested.

🎵 Prep Concert

Last week, your child should have bought home the script for the concert in their book pocket. If the script has been lost in transit, please let us know and we will provide them another one!

We would be very appreciative if you could help your child learn their lines at home! 

CURRICULUM

📚 Phonemic awareness: reading and phonics

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

Students will learn about reading and spelling words with the i_e pattern (long vowel 'i' followed by magic 'e') and o_e (long vowel 'o' followed by magic 'e').

Students will read decodable words, phrases and texts. They will review the following heart words:or, for, there, where, who

And learn the heart words: my, by

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: i_e

Wednesday & Thursday learning: o_e

📝 Literature: reading responses and writing 

The mentor text this week is the fairytale, Cinderella. Students will use this text to form the basis of their literary responses, such as writing about about their 'dream' castle and creating a design plan for the STEM castle building challenge.

We will continue to add to our 'Fairy tale character / setting gallery' by using adjectives to describe character and setting.

📸 Learning Snapshot: Look on Showbie for a visual and oral retell of the story of Cinderella. 

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.

-Practise lower case letter formations on the app 'red writing'

🔢  Maths 

Students will explore the number concept of 'part-part-whole' (two or more numbers - the parts - combining together to create a larger number - the whole). They will deconstruct a whole number in a variety of ways, record their thinking (eg. 6 can be broken up into '3 and 3', '4 and 2', '2, 5 and1', etc) and make connections to addition in this way. They will also make connections to subtraction by finding missing numbers and learning about 'inverse' operations. eg if 3 and 3 make 6, then 6 take away 3, must leave 3.

Mathematical vocabulary used: whole, part, combine, partition, join, more, less, addition, and, add, subtraction, take away.

What can you do at home? 

-Use the 'Friends of 10' app to practise making numbers in different ways. Make sure that you use two different coloured counters!

-Practise writing numbers at home, ensuring that numbers are not reversed! See the poster below which shows the correct entry and exit points for number formation.

🌏 CBL - Respect

During writing sessions, students will be planning their box construction creation. In CBL sessions, they will form a group and practise their team building and negotiation skills by ensuring that an element from every group members' castle is included.

Next week, they will work in their small group to construct their Cinderella inspired castle.