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Parent Helpers

If you are interested in coming in and supporting our learning, pop your name onto the sign up sheet which is located in the Prep courtyard. The teachers require assistance with the following experiences during Term 4. Small/large group reading experiences Photographing & filming prep stories Transcribing stories into scripts for the Preps Add your […]

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Week 1 Happenings

Monday  Projects and Provocations Writing/Inquiry/Science Tuesday Projects and Provocations / Writing target sessions Handwriting/Culture & Identity/Inquiry: TV set design Specialist Wednesday Projects and Provocations / Writing target sessions Writing: Procedural text/Addition strategies/ Inquiry: Goal setting Thursday (Readers’ Notebooks come into school today)  Library / Music / Reading & Literacy provocations Specialist Handwriting/Culture & Identity/Inquiry: TV set design Friday 

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Eric Carle Collage

Last week, the preps took part in a series of workshops where they explored Eric Carle. First, we began by reading through various texts such as “Slowly, slowly said the sloth”, “The secret birthday message” and many more. As we read through each story we discussed the reoccurring style of Carle and how he became well known

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Research Project

Our inquiry question for semester 1 was ‘How can we look after our environments and make them better?’ Our explorations were focused on students gaining an understanding of their school environment. We are now moving in a different direction – exploring other environments in the world and linking these to the habitats of animals. The

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Mindful Drawing

During today’s wellbeing workshop the preps took part in mindful drawing. In this workshop they were asked to take some time to focus on an object in their case their chosen animal and drew it as mindfully as possible. We began by unpacking the term to best understand the intention of the workshop, once achieved the preps

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Term 3: Week 1 Happenings

Monday Projects and Provocations / Big Book Holiday Recount / Numeracy (addition strategies) / Story Sequence Tuesday  Projects and Provocations / Big Book Specialist – Italian (Yellow and Red), Physical Education (Blue and Red), Art (Blue and Yellow) Neighbourhood inquiry discussion Wednesday (Chess club today) Research Workshop / Inquiry workshop Projects and Provocations Thursday (Reading folder comes to

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