Hello from Prep!

It has a very busy start of the school year for our preppies, working very hard to learn the ins and outs of school.

This term for English, we have been looking at traditional stories. Students have been retelling events, connecting personal experiences and practicing their beginning writing skills each week. We are also nearly finished learning all of our Jolly Phonics sounds and letter names. Our focus has been on hearing the sound in a word that is spoken, so we can write the word; and looking at the letters in a word that is written, so we can sound it out and blend the sounds together so we can read. We have begun to learn our tricky words (sight words). In writing we are learning to use our developing sound knowledge to write words and sentences. Our focus when writing is to use a capital letter at the start, spaces between words and putting a full stop at the end, while further developing our formation of letters in handwriting. 

In HASS, the Prep students have been learning about Families and have looked at who may be part of our family. As part of this unit we have been investigating how we celebrate special events such as Anzac Day, Mother’s/Father’s Day, Birthdays, New Year’s Eve or other special cultural days. Now we are exploring the different ways that families remember these special events, by telling stories of our past, taking photos and videos or collecting special keepsakes. Each of us has made a special Memory Box at home and we have brought these to school to share with the class to show special events that have occurred in our own lives. Some children have brought items such as baby clothes, photos of a birthday party, invitation to a wedding, a family heirloom or family crest. We have loved learning more about our friends.