Prep Term 3 Information
Prep Term 3 Class Newsletter
Welcome Welcome to Term Three, this term the students will delve into their rehearsal practice for our whole school production ‘Finding Nemo’ (1st and 2nd November, please save the date).
This newsletter will provide you with an overview of the subjects for Term Three, along with important dates for your diary. Each Friday a weekly reminder will be posted on dojo with reminders for the week ahead. | Reminders
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English Phonics: Through our daily phonics lessons, the Prep students will continue to build their knowledge of letter/sound combinations. Students will revise their initial single letter sounds, common digraphs, silent e, and open and closed syllables. Students will delve into spelling rules k/ck, tch/ch, dge/ge and Gentle Cindy.
Reading: Our reading approach caters to all components of reading - phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Students will engage in weekly lessons that will allow them to apply their letter/sound knowledge to read appropriate decodable texts. We utilise well chosen texts that also promote fluency development. Our Term Three Core Knowledge Units are titled Farms and Kings and Queens. These units are rich in language and content, which support students in building their worldly knowledge as well as promote the use of rich vocabulary. These units are also used to support students' oral comprehension development.
Writing: Our writing lessons are taught explicitly and sequentially. Students are engaged in a range of guided and independent writing opportunities. This term our focus is on students using their letter/sound knowledge to write words as well as building their confidence to attempt the spelling of unknown words by making appropriate spelling choices. A heavy focus remains on sentence syntax, the arrangements of words in sentences. Students will also build on their sentence writing by adding conjunctions ‘and’, ‘but’ and ‘because’. | Mathematics
Throughout Term Three we will cover the following units.
Addition & Subtraction: Students will represent practical situations to model addition and subtraction. They will compare, order and make correspondences between collections, initially to 20, and explain reasoning.
2D & 3D shapes: Students will sort, describe and name familiar two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects in the environment.
Length: Students will use direct and indirect comparisons to compare items and decide which is longer, taller, smaller or shorter and explain their reasoning using everyday language.
Chance & Data: Students in Prep will answer yes/no questions as a means of collecting formation. They will organise their results in simple displays using objects and drawings and interpret the data displays by answering questions. |
Topic All things STEM
Design and Technology Students create and evaluate their ideas and designed solutions based on personal preferences. They communicate design ideas for their designed solutions, using modelling and simple drawings.
Digital Technology students identify how common digital systems are used to meet specific purposes. Students use digital systems to represent simple patterns in data. Students design solutions to simple problems using a sequence of steps and decisions. | Religion Morality and Justice Students will explain fairness, sharing and compassion in light of the story of Jesus. Students interpret what it means to be a disciple of Jesus. Students reflect on how they could respond to the call of discipleship. | |||
Homework Students begin homework in Year Two. Homework is online and consists of a weekly mathematics and literacy activity. Please let your classroom teacher know if the activities are too easy or hard for your child. Preps, Year Ones, and Twos are expected to do a minimum of 10 minutes of reading each evening and record the reading in their reading log book. Reading log books will be checked on a Friday by the classroom teacher.
Dates for your diary Term Three
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| DATE | EVENT | |||
| Monday 17th July | Parent Teacher Interviews 1:30 - 7pm | |||
| Tuesday 25th July | P + F Meeting 7pm | |||
| Monday 14th August | National Science Week | |||
| Saturday 19th August | School Social Event De La Salle | |||
| Monday 21st August | Book Week Dress Up & Parade | |||
| Friday 1st September | Father’s / Special People Breakfast and Assembly Martin as acting principal | |||
| Sunday 3rd September | Father’s Day | |||
Monday 11th - Thursday 14th September | Class Liturgies & Open Book Mornings (dates and times tbc) | |||
| Friday 15th September | Footy Colours Day & End of Term | |||
Show and Share
This Semester in Prep, students will be participating in Show and Share. This is a fantastic opportunity for students to develop their public speaking and social skills. They present in front of their peers (with the support of the classroom teacher if needed) and answer follow up questions after their presentation.
Each Prep class will have it’s own ‘Class Pet’ and the students will create the name altogether. Following the roll order, every Friday a student will take the pet home and have the weekend to show the pet their life and take them around. A book will also be sent home for photos to be stuck into that students can refer to during their Show & Share.
On the following Monday, the students will return the pet and will present during Show & Share. We will continue this until all students have had the opportunity to Show & Share their time with the class pet.
If all students are not able to present during Semester 1, they will have the opportunity to do so at the beginning of Semester 2. Show & Share will run for Semester 1 only with the exception of any students needing to present in Semester 2.
Teacher Contact Details
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions.
jasmine.victoire@sjmalvern.catholic.edu.au
dean.butler@sjmalvern.catholic.edu.au
St Joseph's School Prayer
Girls and boys gathered as one in the name of Christ
to St Joseph’s wecome.
God of creation,love and play, we thankyou for all that you give us this day.
For friendship, learning, trusting and love,
we ask you to guide and protect us.
Be with us Lord and help us to grow in the Spirit of Jesus our friend whom we know.
Amen
Term 3 Weekly Timetable
