Prep Report

Start of term 4 2025 Prep newsletter

Literacy

Phonics

In Phonics this term students will:

• build on their ability to blend letters together by reading short phonetic words
• continue developing their fluency in their reading
• progress their handwriting skills starting and ending their letters in the correct direction, writing their letters the correct size and in the correct direction
• increase their capacity to recall and write multiple words in dictated sentences
• continue learning to read and write their High Frequency Words.

Reading

In Reading this term students will:

• learn about fiction texts and their features
• compare fiction and non-fiction texts and their features
• learn about animal tales as an example of fiction texts
• identify narratives as having characters and a beginning, middle and end
• learn to describe characters’ actions and traits
• understand how narratives have problems and solutions
• continue reading Just Wright texts, building on their blending and fluency skills

Writing

In Writing this term students will:

• continue writing recounts of personal and special experiences, developing their spelling, grammar and punctuation skills
• building on their ability to include detail in their writing
• identify the characters and settings of various fiction texts
• retell stories from picture story books
• learn to identify common nouns, such as people, animals places and things
• understand and identify verbs as action words.

Numeracy

In Numeracy this term students will:

• understand how to share small quantities of items into equal groups
• learn to measure the mass and capacity of a variety of objects and containers
• revise their knowledge of addition and subtraction
• learn how to multiply small groups of numbers together to make a sum
• use their knowledge of the language of location and directions to direct small robots to specific locations
• revise their counting skills and knowledge of the place value columns in 2-digit numbers.

Social and Emotional Learning (S.E.L.)

In S.E.L. this term students will:

• learn about how we are all different from one another
• identify the things that make us different from each other
• learn about the meaning of identity
• identify the aspects of themselves that make up their identity
• learn how our identity doesn’t need to dictate what we choose to do with our lives.

Inquiry

In Inquiry this term students will:

• make origami toys
• design and build their own toys
• learn about billy carts
• build their knowledge of the different technologies used in modern toys
• complete a Pre Melbourne Zoo excursion activity
• visit the Melbourne Zoo for our end of year excursion
• participate in our end of year swimming lessons at Splash
• play with their own toys they designed and created
• play a series of Mr. Turner’s video games.

Important Reminders

• Swimming lessons at Splash in week 7
• Melbourne Zoo excursion is in week 9
• Bring a hat every day for the rest of the year
• Bring a water bottle and healthy packed lunch every day
• Practice reading your Just Right books and High Frequency Words every night.

Thank you from the Prep Team.

Emily Routley, Mark Turner, Dianna Polazzon, Serena Curini, Melissa Ozdemir, Rupinder Kang.