Prep-2 Sector
Prep News
Preps Visit to the Caroline Springs Library and Gallery
On Wednesday the 18th of September, all of the four prep classes walked to the Caroline Springs Library to see a special exhibition of works by the Australian author Alison Lester. Each class received a copy of Alison Lester’s book “Are We There Yet?” to keep. The teachers read the book to their class before the visit.
“Are We There Yet?” is a story about a family who travel around Australia for a year. The book introduces students to many Australian states and iconic Australian landmarks such as Uluru, Sydney Harbour, The Opera House and son on.
At the Library, the preps heard all about Alison Lester and enjoyed the Gallery tour. They participated in colouring, singing and storytelling.
Prep Breakfast
Last Friday the prep grades participated in the Prep Breakfast. This activity is part of the school camping program and apart from being lots of fun it encourages students to become more independent at having breakfast and dressing themselves. The students came to school in their pyjamas at 8 o’clock and enjoyed rice bubbles or cornflakes, toast with vegemite or jam and juice.
Lots of teachers came to help make and serve the breakfast and it was a great success!
Prep D students wrote some interesting sentences about Prep Breakfast:
I liked the prep breakfast because they let me have breakfast. I had lots of fun at the breakfast. I liked when we got to eat the toast. -Bianca Prep D
I liked when we got to run outside. It was the best. I loved it. We got to have corn flakes and toast. -Bnan Prep D
I liked the prep breakfast and it was fun. Teachers were dressed up also. -Ryan Prep D
Prep Team
Year 2 News
In Reading so far this term we have been learning about analysing books that we read. We have looked at the text and the illustrations and noticed how they make the book interesting. We are practising how to identify what analysing is, how to identify the features of a text to assist us to analyse it and learning to describe the genre of a text.
The authors we have studied so far include Nick Bland, Anthony Browne and Aaron Blabey.
Paige 2F My favourite book was Pig The Grub because of the expressions on the character’s faces.
Dane 2F I like how Nick Bland makes his books interesting by having the bear do funny things.
Nathan 2F Piranhas Don’t Eat Bananas was a funny book because the eyes on the characters always told us how they were feeling.
In Writing the students have been finishing off learning about writing Poetry. They have been concentrating on using vocabulary to make their poems creative and have had the opportunity to write shape, acrostic and simile poems.
Students are continuing to learn about all types of measurement in Numeracy, in particular length, capacity and mass.
Play based learning this term is all about Healthy Living. Students have recreated the food pyramid, painted themselves doing a healthy activity and designed a presentation about a fruit of their choice informing others of its benefits. This term we have the Market Fresh incursion and our visit to Ceres to support this learning.
The Year 2 Team