Literacy Revisiting recount writing – key pieces of information to include. Holiday Story telling and sequencing through illustration and text. Holiday sharing – Speaking about the holidays and listening to others while they shared their (using active listening). Retelling information they learnt about their peers. Big book reading, letter and word study. Mathematics Which bugs will be […]
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On Monday, the Preps participated in a workshop where they learnt how to use a story board to illustrate a meaningful sequence of events. The idea of telling a holiday story wasn’t necessarily to draw lots of different things that they experienced throughout the holidays but more to think of one event in particular and then
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It is a part of our daily routine in the Prep neighbourhood to have a shared reading experience with a Big Book. The key strategies for reading that we emphasise when reading these books are: Getting knowledge ready Making predictions from the front cover. What do you think will happen? Are there any clues about
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If your child is riding their scooter to school, it must be locked up in the bike rack area. It is located on the side of the portable, close the gymnasium. Many thanks for your cooperation.
During provocation time this week, there has been a focus of creating something that they did on the holidays to share with the Neighbourhood. We encouraged the Preps explore this idea using of a variety of expressive languages. Art Studio: Painting – with water colour Modelling – with clay Collaging – cutting and glueing paper to create a picture Learning Commons
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This Friday we are presenting our learning from Term 1! Assembly is held in the gymnasium at 3.00 – 3.25pm. Hope to see you there.
MONDAY Workshops to support the learning during provocation time. Projects and provocations Neighbourhood singing TUESDAY Projects and provocations Specialist classes Blue Group: Visual Art and Italian Green Group: Phys Ed and Visual Art Red Group: Italian and Phys Ed. Buddy time Holiday sharing – Grade 5 buddies will share their holiday stories with the Preps. They are using
Tomorrow is pyjama day! Remember to pack a gold coin donation if your child is taking part!
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The Preps worked together to write a recount of their first excursion. Our trip to the museum By Blue Group On Thursday the 17th of March, the Prep Neighbourhood went on an excursion. We went to the Melbourne museum. It was fun going by bus. We were really excited. The first thing we went to
Last week, we wrote this short text about our ant farm. We made an ant farm. Tomo found a queen ant. We put it into the ant farm. We wonder what will happen next!