Prep News

Inquiry

This week we have looked at what makes a good friend. During the week we spent time decorating the secret garden tree in the corner of our classroom, with leaves showing the things we are grateful for.

We also discussed what it means to be a bucket filler, and how through acts of kindness we can fill other people’s buckets whilst also filling our own.

Literacy

In Literacy we have begun learning about the Daily 5 and practicing the 5 daily routines which are: 

Read to self

Read to someone

Listen to reading

Work on writing

Word work

This week we have been focusing on reading to self. When we read to self we can read three ways: read the words, read the pictures and retell the story. 

We have gotten so good at read to self, we can now read for 6 minutes!

Numeracy

In numeracy we have enjoyed learning about our fingers, how many we have, what we can do with them and how they help us to count things. 

We have been exploring lots of different ways we can make numbers with our fingers, collecting data about our ideas and sharing with the class.