tomoh

In weeks 6 and 7, the prep students have started a maths project designing their own counting books. Last week, we spent some time around the school creating collaborative counting books in our sea creature groups. These books can be found displayed outside the performance area. Copies of these will be distributed to the children this […]

Some of the preps have been bringing in special books from home to share with the neighbourhood this term. Some children bring in their favourite books, others bring in books that they have made themselves. These experiences helps to foster our culture of reading and valuing books and support students in becoming aware of the

Monday Inquiry workshops / Shared reading – Big book – Letter study Reading – common words / Numeracy – numeral formation and place value / Writing – recount Tuesday  Inquiry workshops / Shared reading – Big book – Reading strategies (making predictions) Specialist – Italian (Yellow and Red), Physical Education (Blue and Red), Art (Blue and

This week in the Hour of Code, we are looking into ‘bugs’ and ‘debugging’. Children are learning that sometimes a code has errors in it and we have to analyse the steps and debug it. In this session, the students looked at some pre-prepared codes that they had to run and find where it goes wrong and correct it.

We are continuously investigating statistics and probability in prep, finding out how to collect, record and read data. We often use authentic situations to help with our understanding. For example, during the annual Walkathon, we will be taking a break with some yummy ice cream. Anne-Marie, who is organising the event, asked us to collect data on

This week, our focus in maths has been to read and sequence numbers 0 – 12 and learn how to write the names of these numbers (i.e. spelling of numbers such as “z-e-r-o” and “o-n-e” and matching them to the numerals). This is in preparation to our maths project where we will be making our own counting

Our fellow prep student, Alessia, is in hospital at the moment, so the preps decided to write messages to cheer her up. We thought about some good sentences that might make her feel better, and the students had a go at writing some key words. It was a wonderful example of authentic purpose for writing.

This term, the prep students are learning basics of computer programming through the Hour of Code each week. We begin by learning code through visual programming language (VPL) on code.org. This will provide both the basic skills involved in manipulating computers and learn basic syntax of programming language such as “loops” and “conditions”. Hour of Code is divided

We will be taking the prep students to the Mother’s and Carer’s Day Stall organised by the school this year. If your child would like to purchase a small gift for this day, we recommend that they bring a small amount of money in an envelope clearly labelled with their name and the amount. We

In week 1 this term, the preps went on a number hunt. We went for a walk out of the school, searching for numbers between 0 to 20. Every time we found a number, we ticked it off the list and photographed it on our iPad. Having collected the numbers, we collaborated in placing the