Prep Newsletter Term 3, 2015 Term 3 Diary dates: July Monday 20th - Prep-2 Parent Teacher Interviews Week Wednesday 22nd - 100 Days of Prep Party 12-1pm Friday 24th - School Disco Monday 27th - Student Free Day Tuesday 28th - Rabbit Rearing (4 weeks) August Thursday 6th - SRC Casual Day Monday 17th - Book Week Wednesday 19th - Book Week Dress Up Day Tuesday 25th - Prep Musical Dress Rehearsal Wednesday 26th - Prep Musical for Mothers Friday 28th - Prep Musical for Kindergartens September Wednesday 2nd - Prep Swimming (8 days) Friday 18th - Last Day of Term 3, 2:30pm finish me Literacy: This term in Prep we are focussing on blends; the sounds leers make when combined together. We will connue to develop children’s reading skills through a focus on decoding, fluency and comprehension strategies to understand the story. We will focus on handwring skills and leer formaon and connue to encourage the children to add more detail to their wring and use basic punctuaon correctly. Maths: In Maths this term we are looking at the numbers to 20. We will learn to connect number names to their amounts. We will order the numbers to twenty. We will add numbers together using ‘hands on’ materials. Towards the end of term, we will focus on ‘measurement’ using language such as longer, taller and heavier. We will revisit the days of the week and focus on shapes to conclude the term. Inquiry Units: ‘Staying Alive’ is the Science inquiry topic this term. We will be focussing on learning more about, living and non-living things. We will be classifying living things, learning about life cycles, plants and where food comes from. The Science focus is more about senses and how humans and animals use these to stay alive. We will also have rabbits for four weeks in our Prep classes so we can use this opportunity to learn how to care for a class pet and watch how animals grow and develop. Each Prep class will have the rabbits for four days each and connue to visit the rabbits weekly to watch their growth. The History focus this term is connuing to look at ‘Personal and Family History’. We will be looking at the past and present and how families go about tracking and documenng this historical experience over me. Welcome back to Term 3. We all had a very fun day on Wednesday 15th July when the Prep’s went on their first excursion to Chesterfield Farm. At the farm, they went on a tractor ride around the farm to see all the different animals. They were able to pet the baby animals, feed animals, milk a cow, watch the sheepdog Bridget round up sheep as they learnt about the importance of farms. The Prep’s had a fantasc day! A big thank you to the Parent Helpers who came along to assist us on the day. Musical: We have already started pracsing the Prep Musical and you are sure to hear some singing or dancing at home. Prep K and Prep D will perform the musical together. Prep H, Prep M and Prep F will perform together.