Prep News - Mrs Jak

This term in Prep, students will continue to develop their writing skills by using familiar words, phrases and images to communicate and idea.  Students will enhance their writing by improving their letter sound knowledge, using basic punctuation such as capital letters and full stops and correctly forming upper- and lower-case letters.  In Reading, students will be encouraged to recall key events from the story as a skill to support making meaning from texts.  To improve fluency, students are encouraged to keep learning to read high frequency words for homework and to blend sounds orally to read.  Students are supported in reading short decodable and predictable texts for homework through our home reading program.  Show and tell will continue this term enabling students to share experiences, events and particular topics with their peers.

This term in Mathematics, students will sort, describe and name familiar two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects in the environment, describe position and movement and represent practical situations to model addition and sharing.

Our HASS unit will focus on Geography.  Students will describe the features of familiar places (Latrobe) and recognise why some places are special to people. We will explore how places can be represented on maps and a globe and why places are important to people.

In Religion we will learn about God’s love in people and the world around us.  We will read stories of God’s love in the  Bible focusing on the birth of Jesus.

In addition to our academic goals, children will continue to grow socially through their friendships with their classmates and grow as responsible learners in the classroom and school environment.