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Term: 3 Year Level: Prep Important Dates: Friday 3rd August-
School Closure Friday 23rd August- Book Day Thursday 12th
September- Art Show Friday 13th September- Prep Mass Thursday 19th
September- Parent Exchange 2-7pm (End of Term) Friday 20th
September- Parent Exchange 8.30-1pm Reminders:
● Welcome Mrs Lombardo to the Prep team as she has replaces Mrs
Assetta in Prep G.
● While it’s fantastic to see parents so eager to help, a gentle
reminder that children must unpack their bags, reader bags and
lunch boxes
themselves in the morning.
● PREP G Library on a Monday
● PREP B Library on a Friday
● Thank you to all of the parent helpers that have been coming
into the classroom from 8.30 to help children practise their common
words. We ask
that parents do not to test their own child’s words. They must
also have their bag of words with them, please do not test off
their worksheet.
Rosie Evans, Samantha Signorelli , Vanessa Assetta &
Domenica Lombardo
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Central Idea:
The Communities we belong to support the
way we live.
Lines of Inquiry: An inquiry into.. The variety of people and
services in our community. How the people and places in our
community work together to support us What makes a safe and working
community.
Subject Focus: Numeracy Focus: Statistics and Probability
Number
English Focus: Reading
Writing
Overview:
● Make and identify patterns. ● Time- Identify the features of a
clock &
hour intervals
● Place value ● Compare, Order and make numbers to
20. ● Identifying numbers one more/one less
in the number range 0 to 20. ● Counting by 10’s ● Addition and
subtraction
Preps will continue to:
● Explore a variety of reading strategies through whole class
big books and small guided reading sessions
● Continue to work on our letter, sound and word recognition
when reading
● Break/segment words and sentences up into parts
We will continue to work on:
● Hearing and recording sounds in words
● Writing recounts and use a variety of sentence starters to
practice other genres of writing e.g. descriptions
● Handwriting focussing on the correct formation of letters and
correct pencil grip
● Descriptions
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Religious Education:
The church is a special place in our
community where we gather as a Parish
family.
An inquiry into.. Who belongs to our Parish Community? What
happens in the Church? Important objects and symbols in the
Church
Speaking & Listening
The preps will continue to work on:
● Sitting and concentrating on the floor for a sustained period
of time
● Speaking to peers through formal and informal sharing
sessions
● Making eye contact and speaking in a clear, loud voice.
In this unit students learn about the Parish Community. They
explore the concept of belonging. They begin to identify religious
imagery, the church building and its furnishings, and the gestures
used in liturgy. They learn about the name and location of the
local parish, and the role of the priest in the parish. They also
explore the Sacrament of Baptism through a focus on key liturgical
actions and objects used and identify that through Baptism we
welcomed as members of the Church
Central Idea:
A supportive work environment is essential to the
development of our creativity
Lines of Inquiry: Considerations when working in a Visual Arts
room How the Visual Arts room supports the development of our
creativity Maintaining a supportive Visual Arts room
environment
Subject Area: VISUAL ARTS
Overview: We consider the Visual Arts room not only a place for
students to create artwork; instead it’s considered as a place for
freedom of expression, for exploring possibilities, for challenging
creativity and for promoting inquiry. We use the learning
opportunities offered under the transdisciplinary theme “How We
organize ourselves” to engage students collectively in realizing
this vision of a shared creative space by offering students
opportunities to build the Visual Arts room. This term students
will have an opportunity to create Papier Mache Friendly Box
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Monster Sculptures - (three-dimensional art forms that come in
different shapes, sizes, textures, and forms). Students will play
& investigate construction materials learn about different
mediums, and explore some techniques. They will learn about
different works of art and find out how artists can communicate
their ideas and feelings through their work, as well as discover
places you might see a sculpture and get inspired to create their
own Friendly Box Monster.
Central Idea:
We can develop a
range of fundamental movement skills
through a variety of activities.
Lines of Inquiry: - An inquiry into following
instructions and being aware of others during a game.
- An inquiry into using movement skills (fine and gross motor)
in a variety of activities.
- An inquiry into different movements that can be linked to
create sequences.
- An inquiry into displaying creative movements in response to
different stimuli.
Subject Area: PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Overview: Students will develop their confidence, persistence
and their ability to understand and communicate about their
experiences. They will participate in activities with gross motor
skills such as jumping, crawling and skipping and also hand eye
coordination activities such as catching and throwing.
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Central Idea:
We express ourselves in many ways.
Lines of Inquiry:
- How to recognise and reproduce the sounds and rhythms of
spoken French
- How to use simple language and gestures for exchanges with
others in our classroom
Subject Area: FRENCH
Overview: Students are continuing to look at colours through our
“At the Beach” unit. Students will also learn to talk about how
they feel using simple French language.
Central Idea:
The communities we belong to support the way we live.
Lines of Inquiry: An inquiry into: -ways we can communicate
using our voice, facial expression, movement and space to improvise
characters and situations. - different roles of people and services
in our community.
Subject Area: PERFORMING ARTS
Overview: In Performing Arts this term the students will be
exploring a variety of people in our community who help us. Through
their own observations and experiences they will role play
different scenarios involving these helpers. For example, postal
workers, shop assistants, doctors, etc. The students will use a
variety of props to accompany their role plays.
Central Idea: Reading and responding to books assists us to grow
as learners.
Lines of Inquiry: An inquiry into: ~How we can use books to help
us learn ~How we can use information from the book to respond
creatively and develop ideas
Subject Area: DISCOVERY
Overview: In Discovery this term students will be reading and
responding to a range of picture story books that featured in the
Book Week 2019 Celebrations. They will respond to these texts both
creatively and by using various ‘thinking’ strategies.
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Focusing on the Media Arts curriculum, students will also
explore and respond to media artworks by describing ideas,
characters, settings and stories.