Good morning wonderful Prep RB families,
What a wonderful week we had. The children have settled back into the routines of school and have shown great resilience and independence. Our little troopers need to be congratulated!
English
This week we have been continuing with our Fairy Tale theme and continuing to practise the reading skills of retelling and sequencing events as well as some excellent writing opportunities. We started with The ‘Three Little Pigs’ and ended with ‘The Gingerbread Man’.
We also continued with our literacy rotations where we have the opportunity to consolidate targeted reading and spelling skills in small groups. During this time we take our focused teacher groups.
Mathematics
We have continued to explore the properties of 2Dimentional shapes and practised our representing and visualising skills.
Show & Tell
Week 5 Show and Tell the children are invited to bring in a family picture that they can share with the class. Show and Tell provides the children opportunities to work on their speaking and listening skills, as well as posing questions. As Monday 2nd November and Tuesday 3rd November are school closure days, please see the timetable below for your child’s day.
If you are happy for your child to leave their family photo at school, we will create a ‘Family Wall’ for children to stick their photos after they have presented.
Book Week
During week 5 we will read books entered into The Children’s Book Council of Australia.
CBCA website: Cut and paste the link into your browser if you would like to take a look at the website.
https://www.cbca.org.au/
Friday 6th November children are invited to dress up as a character from their favourite book or as a curious creature which is this years theme. We are very much looking forward to this day where we celebrate the wonderful world of literacy. The prep teachers have organised an action packed day full of amazing and engaging activities.
Ms Branigan is sad she will miss this day, but I am extremely excited to be the teacher to dress up with our class family.
Last week my little boy Austin dressed up as Humpty Dumpty for his book week theme at daycare.
Things to note:
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Home readers: Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The home readers are meant to be easy for your child to read. They should read a page more than once which helps with fluency and comprehension. Ensuring they read all the words, use the pictures and initial sounds to help work out unknown words.
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Diaries: Children are to hand diaries in on a Friday. Please encourage your child to fill in each day independently. This will help them to think about what their favourite part was, what they understood and wonderings they may have.
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Show & Tell: Share a family photo. Why is it special? Who is in the photo?