What a wonderful week we have had! It has been super busy in the Prep S Learning Studio this week with lots of learning and fun happening.
English:
This week we began reading Fairy Tales. We started with ‘Goldy’. The children loved this story and it gave us a wonderful text to practise the reading skills of retelling and sequencing events as well as some excellent writing opportunities.
We commenced our ‘Reading Rotations’ where children have the opportunity to consolidate targeted reading and spelling skills in small groups. During this time I take my focused teacher groups. It has been so wonderful to get to use lots of hands on resources in our learning again!
Maths:
We began learning about 2D shapes. We explored different ways to sort shapes according to their properties and practised representing and visualising 2D shapes.
Reminders:
Take Home Readers:
Children were able to recommence their take home reading program this week. We will aim to change these each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Take home readers are an invaluable opportunity for children to consolidate their foundational reading skills. Where possible reading should take place each night. We encourage children to reread texts multiple times as this helps students reinforce their learning. We model this as teachers by rereading big books over a week or many days. Take home readers will be easy to read texts to help children build their reading fluency. Please record your child’s reading in their home reading diary. I will check these on a Friday 🙂
Show and Tell:
Week 4 Show and Tell will be the Animal Poster children created during Remote Learning. If children are unable to bring this to school, children may read a chosen piece from their Remote Learning book.
Wishing you all a lovely long weekend. I will be spending this weekend trying different hairstyles on my little girl after she experimented with scissors on her hair on Thursday. Oh dear!
Well done to all the children of Prep S for a wonderful first week back at school! We have had an excellent week back together again, exploring our school grounds, making new friends and getting back into the school routine. I hope all parents have enjoyed seeing updates of our learning throughout the week.
Next week we commence Week 3 of Term 4.
Some end of week messages:
Sport Uniform Days
A reminder that our sport uniform days are Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Nightly Reading
Take home reading books will be ready to send home next week. Thank you to those children that have continued their Wushka reading.
Hats and Lost Property
In Term 4 children are required to their school hat. During break times children often get very excited about their games and activities and hats or jumpers often get left behind on the school yard. Sometimes children notice after the bell has gone when no teachers are supervising yards so students will be unable to go back to retrieve them. When teachers see these items left, they are often returned to the class quickly if named. If not named, items are sent to lost property.
Handwriting Books
We are still awaiting the return of a handful of handwriting books. Please return these ASAP if your child’s is still at home.
Show and Tell
Please see the Show and Roster of the class blog for your child’s Show and Tell day. It will remain the same each week. As next Friday is a Public Holiday, Friday children can present theirs on Thursday for next week. The topic for Week 3 is our ‘Animal Books’ made during remote learning. I have some children’s books already with me at school.
Next week we are commencing a Maths unit on 2D shapes. We will also be exploring Fairy Tales in English.
I hope all the children enjoyed their week back of Term 4 and most importantnly, their final week of remote learning. Thank you and well done to all our little learners and families on what has been a tremendous effort by all!
I am beyond excited to see all the children in person on Monday. This week my focus has been to prepare the children for their return to onsite learning and begin to orientate them to the new school environment and classroom. This will be a continued focus across the school in the coming weeks and term.
We have enjoyed some virtual tours this week of our learning studio and school grounds. I have included some pictures of our room below for families to see.
Also below I have included a roster for ‘Show and Tell’. Throughout term 4, Prep children will be invited to share something from a given topic with their class each week. Please see the timetable below for weekly topics and your child’s allocated day. As we are heading into a very busy term, if your child’s given day falls on a public holiday or student free day they will be able to share on another day that week. Likewise, sometimes unexpected things happen throughout our day at school and we might run out of time. On these occasions children will also be able to share on another day. A hard copy of this roster will be sent home with Prep S children o Monday 🙂
Specialist timetables are still being finalised and when these become available to us we will share them with you as soon as possible.
Having been onsite this week preparing our learning space I have been struck by how quiet our Prep building is. Having taught for many years I can appreciate how busy and noisy Prep rooms are meant to be. It is with great excitement that I look forward to Monday when our room is once again filled with learning and exploration!
Hello Prep S families and welcome back to our final term!
This year has certainly been a roller coaster but the Prep children have been troopers and soon we will finally be altogether, learning and exploring!
Below I have included the timetable for Week 1. Please note the amended English and Maths groups. A reminder that Tuesday (6th October), will be an onsite planning and meeting day for all Prep- Two teachers. No Google Meets will be scheduled for that day. Learning will be provided on the Prep Blog as usual however.
