Prep

Literacy 

In response to Fish Head Soup's story, the students created a class soup recipe called 'Sopa Vegetable School Soup'. We made the soup as a literacy experience, using our five senses to describe the ingredients, the process of making soup, and finally eating the soup. The following day the students were encouraged to write their recipes. It is wonderful the see the Preps writing!

Our focus sound is /i/, and we have been identifying the words that have the beginning sound /i/, practising the formation of i and our other known letters and blending words with the known sounds that we have been learning. 

Maths 

The Preps embraced the game Tenzi and Add One More as warm-up games. We are exploring the addition strategies of combining and partitioning numbers to ten. The stories Quack and Count and Ten For Me introduced the students to the concept of partitioning numbers. After listening to the stories, the students showed all the possible ways to partition the numbers from 5 to 10. 

Inquiry 

We explore different food groups that sustain our bodies and keep us healthy. The story Rainbow Plate created a great discussion about our favourite fruits and vegetable, the colour of various fruits and vegetables and the importance of having a rainbow of healthy food on your plate. During snack time the students looked in their lunchboxes and classified their food into healthy food and sometimes food. Each day we continue to monitor the progress of our broad bean seeds and the vegetables growing from a plant. It is beautiful to see the plants regrowing in the window, and the broad beans are beginning to show roots, stems and leaves. Anissa found a large seed pod in the Royal Botanical Gardens, and she brought the seed pod and seeds to show us. The students have also been reflecting on ways to be more sustainable in their lives, and Miss Sue told the students that she wraps her sandwiches in beeswax wraps instead of cling wrap. 

Education in Faith 

Last week we all thoroughly enjoyed the workshop and concert with Andrew Chinn. Inquiry and Education in Faith have closely aligned this term. In response to creating sustainable environments, the students made prayers, asking for God's guidance to help them look after his creation. The students have been sharing their prayers during the morning prayer circle.