Week Four Term Two
The Prep cohort have had a great start to Term Two with lots of important learning happening and routines getting started. Well done to all the Prep children and families for the great commitment to the home reading program so far.
During our Connected Learning sessions the students have been thinking about important places to them and learning about the importance of PLACE for First Nations people in Australia. Each class has made up their own Acknowledgement of Country that they are so proud to recite. We had a special guest, Reuben Berg who is Kalinga in Yr 6 and Jirra in Yr 2s father come and chat to the Prep cohort about special places for First Nations people of the Gunditjmara area where their family is from.
The teachers have been so impressed with the students’ persistence in their early writing skills. The students have been trying to apply their letter/sound knowledge when writing words and sentences.
Other learning experiences in Prep over the past four weeks have included:
- Learning the new routines of the Reading session and beginning small group reading groups with their teacher.
- Sequencing events in fairy tales and sequencing the order of everyday events.
- Adding numbers 1-5 and then 1-10 using stories, games and manipulatives.
- Using location words such as ABOVE, BELOW, NEXT TO to describe their position.
- Naming and sorting 2D shapes.
- Writing short recounts about our weekends, holidays and recess experiences.
- Continuing to learn more phonemes/graphemes using the Sound Waves program. They are learning to blend these phonemes together to read words and learning new high frequency words that often have special rules.
- Celebrating Japanese Cultural Day and making pin wheels with our Yr 5 Prep Pals.