Prep - Term 3 Overview

English
Reading and Viewing Focus: In Term 3 students become beginner readers, able to read decodable and predictable texts with sentences that range in complexity and length. Students participate in shared reading, viewing and storytelling using a range of literary texts, and recognise the entertaining nature of literature. Writing Focus: In Term 3 students create a range of imaginative and informative texts. Students create procedural texts using a small range of language features, including simple and compound sentences; mostly familiar vocabulary, known high- frequency words and single-syllable words that can be decoded phonically, and illustrations that strongly support the printed text. Speaking and Listening Focus: In Term 3 students communicate with peers, teachers, known adults, and students from other classes. Students will deliver oral presentations to peers.
Mathematics
Number and Algebra Focus: In Term 3 students develop a deeper understanding of the concepts of number and numeral, count and order. They add and share using small sets of objects while being exposed to mathematical notation. Measurement and Geometry Focus: In Term 3 students compare common objects with respect to length, mass and capacity, and order events and compare their duration. They understand how to make estimates and take simple measurements with respect to informal units. Students name, sort and describe familiar 3D objects, and describe position and movement in their immediate environment. Statistics and probability Focus: In Term 3 students investigate situations and collect relevant data. They present this data in simple displays, such as graphs.
Humanities - Geography	Science
Focus: In Term 3 students develop their concept of place through a study of what places are like over time and how they are defined. Key Questions: What are places like? How and why are people connected to their place and other places? What makes a place special? How can we care for places?	Focus: In Term 3 students develop an awareness of themselves and the local world. Students observe changes with their 5 senses that can be large or small and happen quickly or slowly. They explore the properties of familiar objects and phenomena, identifying similarities and differences.
Music	Art
Focus: We are beginning to explore melody using known nursery rhymes. We are exploring how pitch works with rhythm to create melody. We are singing, playing instruments, and moving our bodies to pitch, rhythm and beat.	Focus: Students will explore patterns and symbols of indigenous art to inspire their creations. They will create a winter themed landscape and woolly coat where they will explore patterns using repetition, line and shape. They will make a class mural focusing on Art Deco forms inspired by nature. Linking to fabrics and patterns, winter trees, nature and (Art Deco) time in history, students are introduced to Gustav Klimt artwork.
Physical Education	Health
Focus: In Term 3 students will learn to cooperate with others when participating in physical activities. They will also practice fundamental movement skills and movement sequences using different body parts and in response to stimuli in indoor and outdoor settings.	Focus: In Term 3 students learn about their strengths and describes simple actions they can take to keep themselves and their classmates healthy and safe. Students explore the people that are important to them and develop their capacity to initiate and maintain respectful relationships in different contexts.
Christian Life	L.O.T.E - French
Focus: In Term 3 studentslearn that Jesus wants people to know him personally and how people change as they get to know him. They investigate how and why people pray to God. Students understand that the Bible was created to teach them all about God and the good things He has created.	Focus: This Term, students will be introduced to French. They will explore life in France, from a child’s perspective. Students will interact with each other and the teacher using simple language and gestures for exchanges such as greetings and farewells, thanks and introductions. They will explore colours and numbers 1-10 in French using popular children’s picture books.
Discovery Learning	Homework Expectations
Focus: Students take library books home every week. Please remember to pack your child’s satchel.	Focus Monday – Thursday evening please complete: 10 minutes of reading practise and 10 minutes of homework booklet.

Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV) - Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old,

he will not depart from it.