Prep Update
Prep A-Miss Hope Prep B-Miss Papa Prep C-Ms Lloyd Prep D-Mrs Herres Prep E-Ms Rhimes
Hillsmeade Primary School
Prep A-Miss Hope
Prep B-Miss Papa
Prep C-Ms Lloyd
Prep D-Mrs Herres
Prep E-Ms Rhimes
Prep A-Miss Hope
Prep B-Miss Papa
Prep C-Ms Lloyd
Prep D-Mrs Herres
Prep E-Ms Rhimes
Welcome to Term 3!
Upcoming learning
During the next fortnight, Prep students are undertaking learning in the following areas:
| Reading | Week 2: We are reading a range of Dreamtime stories, including The Rainbow serpent and How the Kangaroos got their tails. We are focusing on making predictions and stretching out unknown words. Week 3: We will be focusing on the skill of inferring and reading the story 'Don't call me a bear!' We will continue to engage in daily Phonics lessons, focusing on diagraphs /ss/ and /ff/. We are focusing on one sound per week and continuing to link our learning to the sounds learnt earlier in the year. |
| Writing | Week 2 & 3: We will be learning about what a sentence is and how to form a sentence. We are using sentence starters to write about the animals from our stories in Reading sessions, including a serpent and a koala. |
| Maths | Week 2: We will be focusing on ordinal number. Week 3: We will be learning about measurement using informal units. |
Inquiry
| Week 2: We are beginning a new unit on Australian animals. Some focuses will be: What is an Australian Native Animal? What does Indigenous mean? How Indigenous Peoples care for the land and living things. Week 3: We will be looking at where these native animals live in Australia. We will be matching names to animals and learning about habitats and weather changes. |
| Social and Emotional | Week 2: This week will be all about what is means to be a good friend. Week 3: We will be starting our unit on Respectful Relationships. |
News and reminders
- Reader satchel update- In Term 3, we will be asking students to bring along their reader satchel on Mondays and Thursdays each week. This will help with pasting our new sound in and changing of readers 2 times per week. In between the reader change, please continue reading our decodable book as this will help with fluency, comprehension and blending skills.
- Heart words- Teachers will be checking heart words throughout the week and updating them as needed.
- 100 DAYS OF SCHOOL!! This is coming on Monday the 31st of July! We are SO excited! Just a reminder that on this day, the Preps will be dressing up as '100 years old.'
- Moonlit Sanctuary excursion- Please provide consent and payment via Compass as soon as possible. If you have any questions, please ask your child's classroom teacher.
- Prep students have settled in so well into Term 3 and we are incredibly proud of them!
Celebration of learning
Prep A doing an activity after reading 'I ate my friend.'
Prep A doing an activity after reading 'I ate my friend.'
Very proud of our first Hillsmeade Heroes for Term 3
In Prep B!
Very proud of our first Hillsmeade Heroes for Term 3
In Prep B!
Tracing our feet..
to help us count by 2's
In Prep C!
Tracing our feet..
to help us count by 2's
In Prep C!
Making a dog for counting patterns
In Prep D!
Making a dog for counting patterns
In Prep D!