Prep News

What we've been up to in Prep!

In Topic, we built the stick house from the Three Little Pigs.

We have been having a lot of fun learning about capacity in Maths. We had a very big mess to pack up too!!

We have been enjoying dressing up as the characters and acting out the Fairy Tale of the week. There are some fabulous emerging actors in Prep!

Milo's Birthday Party!

In Week 6, we will be celebrating Milo's Birthday! Every time we have learnt a new sound at school, we read the story - 'Milo's Birthday Surprise'. Each page in the book has a new sound, and we were introduced to a character that matches the sound. The very first character we met was Milo when we were learning the sound that /m/ makes. Milo then tries to invite his friends to his birthday party but they are all pretending to be busy. By week 6 of this term, we will have met all of the characters so it is time to throw Milo a party!

On Friday the 24th of May, we invite our Prep students to choose their favourite character from the book to dress up as. Please try and create a costume from what you already have at home. We ask that the chosen costume represents a character from the story... no Elsa or Bluey costumes this time!

Please look at the picture below with your child for some inspiration:

Education Week - Open Afternoon

To celebrate Education Week, we would like to invite you into our classrooms on Friday afternoon (Friday 17th May). Please see Mr Trezise's section of the newsletter for more information.

Can you help?

Next week, we will be building a bridge for a troll to cross as part of Topic. We are on the lookout for materials that the students could use to build the bridge that they will design. 

If you have some of the items below, or anything else that you might think could work, please send them in for the 3 Prep classrooms to share. Please make sure that they are clean. 

• paper rolls
• small boxes (cardboard needs to be thin enough for students to cut)
• icy pole sticks
• foil

Upcoming Learning

Literacy

In week 5, we will be learning the sound for 'x' and 'w' and continuing to practise writing words, lists and sentences using words that include these sounds. In week 6, we will be revising all of the sounds we have learnt so far whilst getting ready for Milo's Party! Over the next two weeks we will be reading Three Billy Goats Gruff and Milo's Birthday Surprise. We will be learning the Heart Words 'of' and 'are'. 

Mathematics

In weeks 5, we will be learning about location. This includes directional language like above, below, in front and behind, using directions and combining directions. In week 6, we will be extending our measurement learning to mass - let's hope it is not as messy as capacity!

Topic 

In Topic, we will be using the different materials we have exploring (and collecting!) to design and build a bridge for the billy goats to cross. 

Respectful Relationships- Managing emotions and The picnic problem solving game.