Family Photo for History

Hi everyone,

Hope you are enjoying your Easter weekend. We are looking forward to hearing about all the fun activities you experienced on Wednesday when we return to school!

As part of our History program, we are learning about families. We will be asking students to talk about their families and things they like to do with their families. We would like all students to bring in a family photo to share on Wednesday when they return if possible.

Enjoy the rest of your break and we will see you Wednesday!

Our Learning Weeks 5-7

Our last 3 weeks have flown by been pretty quick. We have been very busy learning lots of new things whilst continuing to have fun.

Literacy

In Literacy, our focus is on oral language, phonics and reading skills.

We have been learning all about syllables (the parts in a word e.g. spi/der) and rhyme (words that sound the same e.g. cat/bat). We have also been listening for the initial sound in words (start sound).

So far this term we have covered letter and sound recognition for the letters;

S, A, T, P, I, N, D,R, E, C, H, O, M, G, U, L, F, B, W, V, J

We have revised our 20 Golden words from Kindergarten and have begun working on our Red words. We now have sight word folders which should be coming home with your child and returned to school daily. We aim to assess and update your child's sight word folder each week. Returning the folder to school regularly enables us to do this. Sight words are important for reading development as texts consist mostly of these high frequency words. Sight words are words we teach students to recall by sight. There are no decoding strategies for teaching sight words (sight words cannot be 'sounded out').

GOLDEN WORDS

I                     is                     Dad                 here

can                 it                     in                     this

see                 the                   like                  go

a                     at                    to                     we

am                 look                 Mum                will

RED WORDS

long              an    

what             has

no                 as

Here are some of our Literacy rotations and activities in action! 

Numeracy

In Numeracy we have covered the numbers 0-10. We have been learning how to form the numbers, how to count out the quantity and order the numbers. We are focusing on our number sequence including numbers 'before', 'between' and 'after' as well as comparing to determine 'more', 'less' and the 'same'. 

We have also covered patterning this term. A pattern is something that repeats itself over and over again. We can make patterns with shapes, colours, actions and sounds. We have been learning how to recognise and continue a given patter as well as create patterns of our own. 

Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS)

Our main goal with developing gross motor skills this term has been with balance and the ability to run using correct techniques. Heres a few pictures of us balancing on the many beams and obstacles in the nature playground.

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WELCOME TO ROOM 9 PRE PRIMARY 2018!

First of all I would like to welcome all parents and students back to school for 2018!

I’m sure there will be mixed emotions as you all say goodbye to your children and wish them well on their first day at school full time. The first few weeks may seem hard while your children adjust, however it gets easier. Some children need more time to adjust to full time school than others.

I wanted to take this time to introduce myself as I am currently on maternity leave until the end of Week 4. My name is Katy Govan. I have 2 children at home myself, the oldest, Jacob starts Year 1 this week and my youngest, Elijah is 10 weeks old. I have been teaching in Early Childhood for 7 years, this year being my 8th. I have been teaching at Wattle Grove since 2015, teaching the PP/1 split class. Ms Barnes will be covering my leave for the first 4 weeks until I return back to work.

It was nice to meet some of you this morning. I am looking forward to returning to work in the coming weeks and working alongside you to support your children through Pre Primary this year.

Kind Regards,

Katy Govan

NAIDOC WEEK

This term we have celebrated NAIDOC week. As a class, Room 9 completed numerous activities designed to teach students about the Aboriginal culture. On the Friday, we attended a whole school assembly where there were some special visitors. We sang a song called "Wanjoo" for the special guests. They were very impressed with us all.

Damper Making
 
 
 
 

Boomerang painting using traditional Aboriginal symbols and dots
 
 

School language detective walk and mapping skills
 
 

Term 3 Learning

This term we have already been quite busy with learning new skills and concepts in Literacy and Mathematics. Our focus for the term is as follows;

YEAR 1

LITERACY

• Bossy 'e' rule revision "Bossy 'e' bosses the vowel to say its name"
• Phonics sounds "ai", "ay", "aw", "ie", "ea - long and short", "ee" - We are learning the rule "when 2 vowels go walking the first one does the talking and says its name"
•  Blends spelling (moving into final blends)
• Homophones and homographs
• Suffixes and prefixes
• Reading strategies; predicting, questioning and connecting

NUMERACY

• Place Value: Breaking numbers into tens and ones
• Addition using place value
• Subtraction using place value
• Comparing numbers
• Graphing
• Money
• Fractions

PRE PRIMARY

LITERACY

• Blends revision
• Writing simple words with blends e.g. crab
• Blending and segmenting words  into sounds e.g. f-r-o-g    
• Adding and deleting sounds in words e.g. p-i-n-k take away the k is pin
• Spelling: sight words
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NUMERACY

• Continuing with counting on
• Partitioning to 10 
• Odd and even numbers within scope
• Ordering numbers
• Doubles facts

Last week of term

The last week has flown by so quickly. We have enjoyed a gender reveal party and were very excited when we found out Miss Watson is having a boy! We have watched Fatima present her Super Science experiment in front of the whole school. We have enjoyed our revision learning rotations with Miss Payne. We had a special movie and popcorn afternoon on the last day to celebrate all of our hard work and achievement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A big thankyou to all parents for your continued support. We hope you enjoy a well deserved break and look forward to seeing everyone back for a busy Term 3.

Procedural Writing

This Term we have focused on procedural texts. Students have had fun engaging in multiple hands on activities making things and explaining how to do so using descriptive language. Afterwards, we have a go at writing it all down.


Here are some snapshots of our fun..




Fairy Bread                                                                                    

 

Hot Chocolate With Miss Payne

Sandcastle fun