Prep Update

Week 4 & 5- Continuing out Fairytale unit!  

We will be reading a range of fairytakes, including Goldilocks, The Gingerbread Man, The Princess and the Pea and The Ugly Duckling .

We are sequencing events in fairytales from the beginning, middle and the end. 

We will engage in daily Phonics lessons, focusing on the letter sounds /l/, /v/, /y/ and /r/  following the Little Learners Love Literacy sequence. 

We will be focusing on 2 sounds each week and working on sounding out and decoding words with learnt sounds.

Week 4 & 5-  We will learn the correct letter formation of our focus letters. 

We will be writing about fairytales using our letter sound knowledge, attempting to sound out and record our thinking.

Week 4: We will be focusing on addition, adding 2 groups using the language of 'and' and 'altogether.' 

Week 5: We will be focusing on sharing a collection equally between groups.

Inquiry

Week 4: We are beginning out new unit on Change. What is change?  How do things around me change? 

Week 5: How has television changed? We will be looking at classic television shows and how they have evolved over the years,  focusing on Playschool this week.