Prep J: February 2015

Week 5

We have been at school for 5 weeks now. The Preps are settling in so well and getting used to the school routines. You are AMAZING!

A few photos from our Literacy rotations this week. We are very lucky to have fantastic parent helpers who started coming in this week to help with the two hour Literacy block. We have been working hard on alphabet puzzles, matching up capital letters and lower case letters, alphabet activities on the computer, writing activities and reading.

In Religion over the last few weeks we have been learning about Jesus. We have been reading stories from the New Testament about Jesus' life. We have read 'An angel tells Mary she is going to have a baby', 'Jesus is born', 'An angry King', 'Jesus is lost' and 'John baptizes Jesus'. This week we also started whole school meditation. This takes place in our classroom straight after lunch on a Monday and a Friday.

On Friday afternoon the whole school went outside and cleaned up our school grounds for 'Clean up Australia Day'. The children all brought in gloves to wear. They did a great job! Luckily there wasn't too much rubbish around. We try hard to keep our school clean and tidy!

Week 4

For Writing at the moment we are learning to have a go.. record any letters, sounds we can hear in our words. We are writing recounts.
During Literacy time one of our letters we were focusing on this week was 'I'. We created our own 'Itchy Indian masks' to go with the song we learnt about the letter 'I'.

We practised our bean bag game and then competed in our houses during the Ball sports morning on Friday.

We took part in Twilight Sports. We came in our house colours. We did running races.

We had lunch with out buddies again on Monday and completed a profile sheet about ourselves and our buddy. This will be coming home in a book in the next few weeks for you to read and find out about your child's class mates and Grade 5 buddies. On Tuesday we had our beginning of year School Mass. One student from Prep J spoke and did an amazing job!

On Tuesday we were very lucky and made pancakes for Shrove Tuesday. They tasted delicious!

We weren't at school on Wednesday as it was our 'Prep Rest day' so we had a special Ash Wednesday Liturgy on Thursday with Prep KW and Malcom instead. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent.

Week 3

For Literacy we are focusing on learning our alphabet letters. We have been creating them out of playdough, matching capital letters with lower case letters and have been learning how to form the letters correctly.

We were given another special book to read focusing on the golden words- 'the' again and the word 'is'.

In Maths we are learning to count forwards and backwards to 20 and identify the numbers. We are learning to subitise-instantly recognise how many items are in a small group. We have been looking at dot patterns (dice patterns 1-6). We are also learning our shapes- triangle, square, rectangle and square. We are learning to recognise how many sides and corners they have as well as sort shapes into groups. We have been creating shapes out of playdough, creating pictures using shapes, tracing around shapes and playing shape bingo!

We have been pegging the right number of pegs onto number cards, playing 'race to the end'- instantly recognizing dice patterns as well as many other activities!