Bazaar donations

Just a reminder to donate to your home group's Bazaar Hamper tub if you haven't already done so.

Come on guys, its purple group in the lead again! We need some competition!

ACTION REQUIRED: Tabloid Sports

Please return your Tabloid Sports permission slip (yellow form) if you have not already done so.

 

It begins next Thursday!

 

Thankyou

Week 4 Happenings

Monday

 

·         Learning Agreement 

·         Maths, Inquiry, Writing and Reading workshops

·         PMP 2.40 – 3.15 

 Tuesday

·         Learning Agreement 

·         Maths, Reading and Writing

·         Physical Education: Prep M and H / Art: Prep E and M / Italian: Prep H and E

Wednesday 

·         Learning Agreement 

·         Maths, Singing and Writing workshops
·         Handwriting

Thursday 

·         Learning Agreement

·         Guided reading / Literacy provocations 

·         Italian Prep M / Art: Prep H / Physical Education: Prep E

·         Maths provocations 

Friday 

·        Singing with Deb

·        Wellbeing, library and mathematics workshops

 ·        Assembly 2.30 - 3.30

Handwriting focus

Last week, our handwriting focus was on the letter Pp.

Week 4 Learning Focus

 

Writing: Learning Agreement reflection. Invitation writing – publish and finalize good copy. Shared writing of big books for the Neighborhood. Description / instructional text: My game. Recount of a celebration (eg - Halloween party)   Maths: Focus on counting forwards and backwards from any number. Revisiting addition with teen numbers (10 and three more is 13). Halloween trick or treat addition stories.   Reading: Shared reading of ‘Bug makes a splash’ (Kimochi book) and designing a new title and front cover. Shared reading ‘I hate peas’ – exploring the numbers the numbers within the text. Shared reading ‘The sorcerer’s apprentice’ – viewing of Fantasia clip; discussion of how music can tell the story. Independent and paired reading. Guided reading.    Wellbeing: Student protocols: We use kind words. We do our best and help others to do their best. We move and play safely. Game etiquette: What can we do to make sure everyone is having a good time?   Inquiry: Preparing our performance for grandparents day and Prep transition.

Week 3 Happenings

Monday

·         Learning Agreement 

·         Maths, Inquiry, Writing and Reading workshops

·         PMP 2.40 – 3.15 

 Tuesday

·         Learning Agreement 

·         Maths, Reading and Writing 

·         Physical Education: Prep M and H / Art: Prep E and M / Italian: Prep H and E

Wednesday 

·         Learning Agreement 

·         Maths, Singing and Writing workshops

·         Handwriting

Thursday 

·         Learning Agreement

·         Guided reading / Literacy provocations 

·         Italian Prep M / Art: Prep H / Physical Education: Prep E

·         Maths provocations 

Friday 

·         Life Ed 9.10 – 10.10 (Orange group)

·         Singing with Deb

·         Wellbeing, library and mathematics workshops

 ·        Assembly 2.30 - 3.30

Week 3 Learning Focus

Week 3 Learning Focus

Writing: Learning Agreement reflection. Invitation writing - conferencing with the teacher, edit and write final copy. Modelled writing of instructional text (party games). Shared writing of a big books of 'Games we play at school.'   Maths: Focus on counting forwards and backwards from any number. Halloween addition stories. Creating new neighbourhood games with a maths focus.   Reading: Shared reading of instructional text; sequencing how to play the game by illustrating and writing. Independent and paired reading. Guided reading.    Wellbeing: Playing inclusive games during lunch and recess time. Discussion of language used when playing games. Problem solving; what to do if someone if someone doesn't want to play the game that you want to play. Understanding how to compromise when playing with your friends.   Inquiry: Explaining games that we play in the yard by sequencing photo graphs of the different steps involved.

Action Required

Nursing Program
The Nursing Program forms are due back tomorrow whether or not your child will participate in the program. Please return them to your child's home group teacher tomorrow.

Tabloid Sports
On Friday a yellow form went home about the tabloid sports for prep to year two students. These forms are due back this week so please return them as soon as possible to your child's home group teacher.

Thanks,
The Prep Team

Action Required: Prep Nursing Program

A reminder that is you wish your child to be a part of the Nursing Program, please return your form by no later than Wednesday 21st October.

Thank you

Bazaar Talent Quest !

This week some preps put their name down to perform in the Talent Quest at the Bazaar. The coordinators have given the preps extra time to practice their acts. They ask that if the preps have a short act (no more than a couple of minutes) they meet in the gym next Wednesday 21st at lunchtime to practice. They can then practice every Wednesday lunchtime after that in the gym before performing at the Bazaar. They can choose music for their act as well and as long as it is short, all preps will be able to perform. If you have any questions you can ask one of the prep team,

Thank you!

Handwriting focus for today

Today we looked at the letter 'Hh' in our handwriting workshop.

This is a lovely song that has lots of 'Hh' words in it.

Enjoy

BAZAAR HAMPER DONATIONS

Dear parents,

Its HAMPER time! 

There are yellow tubs placed outside each home group room to fill up with donations for the Bazaar. Each hamper has a different theme.

Prep H: "Big breakfast" Donations may include brekkie goodies, nice cereals and muesli, juices, coffee, tea, seeds, Champagne, bowls, coffee and tea cups, glasses and egg cups.

Prep M: "Tex Mex" Donations may include: cooking equipment, salsa, tortillas, tacos, beer, hot sauces, chillies, beans, lemons, limes, tequila, Mexican cook book, voucher to Mexican restaurant. 

Donations for the Bazaar hampers can be placed.

Prep E: "Hamp it up" Donations may include: gourmet foods, alcohol, tableware, cookware, oils, spices, wines, beer, pasta, condiments, preserves, pasta sauces, chocolate and sweets, serving dishes, cookbooks and cooking utensils. 

Thank you

 

Addition

In Numeracy we have been looking at party bag addition. If there are two different treats in your party bag, how many of each treat is there and how many treats altogether?

 There are lots of ways to make 10 (5 and 5, 6 and 4, 7 and 3, 8 and 2, 9 and 1!)

 Ruby explored doubling 10!

 If we put the counters on tens frames we can count by tens and it is a lot faster!

Using tens frames shows clearly what ten looks like and makes counting faster and organised.
Well done preps!

Researching Games Around the School.

As part of our inquiry into 'How do we celebrate friendship? we have started looking at what games exist on the ground around the school and will be collecting data on who uses these games and which are the most popular in prep. We all had fun realizing that there are more painted games on the ground than we thought. We also discussed that there were different games that could be played on each design.

ACTION REQUIRED: Request from Hannah

Just a reminder to bring in a white T-shirt, calico bag or pillow case from home to print on next week.

These should be bought in by the end of this week. Hannah has advised students to keep them in their lockers until needed. 

If students do not want to bring in an item from home to print on, they will be given other opportunities to further develop their textile skills on the calico print.  

Many thanks or all your help with this request, 

The Prep team

ACTION REQUIRED - Questionaire for school nurse

Just a friendly reminder that the questionnaires that we sent out last week are due this Friday the 16th. It is a requirement to fill this out for your child to be seen by the school nurse.

 Please return to your child's home group teacher by the end of the week.  

Many thanks,

The Prep team

 

  

Week 2 Happenings

Week 2 Happenings

 

Monday

·         Learning Agreement

·         Maths, Writing and Reading workshops

·         PMP 2.40 – 3.15

 

 Tuesday

·         Learning Agreement

·         Maths, Reading and Writing targets

·         Physical Education: Prep M and H / Art: Prep E and M / Italian: Prep H and E

 

Wednesday

·         Learning Agreement

·         Maths, Singing and Writing targets

·         ICT, Writing and Spelling workshops

·         Handwriting

 

Thursday

·         Learning Agreement

·         Maths, Reading and Writing targets

·         Guided reading / Literacy provocations

·         Italian Prep M / Art: Prep H / Physical Education: Prep E

·         Maths provocations

 

Friday

·         Life Ed 9.10 – 10.10 (Orange group)

·         Singing with Deb

·         Wellbeing, library and mathematics workshops

 ·         Assembly 2.30 - 3.30

 

Week 2 Learning Focus

Writing: Life Education recount. Learning Agreement reflection of learning. Invitation writing. Modelled writing of instructional text (party games).   Maths: Data collection of the games played on the asphalt in the school grounds. Addition – knowing tens facts to assist with counting, matching number sentences to amount and adding two amounts together and using tens frames to view the total number as ‘ten and some more.’   Reading: Shared reading – modelled reading of strategies. Independent and pairs reading. Guided reading.   Wellbeing: Revisit expectations at school – We use kind words. We do our best and help others to do their best.   Inquiry / ICT: Animation of the different games we play at school.

Life Education

This week the Prep Neighbourhood visited the Life Education van.

The kids were thrilled to be introduced to Harold the giraffe. Some of the many interesting topics covered in the session were:

• The different functions of our organs
• The types and amount of food that is required for a healthy diet
• How to sort food and drink into groups
• What action to take if a needle is seen on the ground
• What to do if they are around someone who is smoking

The Preps loved using their special powers; rubbing their hands on the carpet and bringing their arms up to the sky turned the lights off and revealed a starry sky. Patting Harold was also highlight for many.

PMP next week

Due to a change in the specialist teachers timetable, we need to change the time of PMP from Monday morning to Monday afternoon.

It will be held in the gym next Monday from 2.40 - 3.20.

There will be a helper sign up sheet on the Prep notice board next week.

Many thanks,

The Prep Team

Grand Parents' Day!

Dear Parents, Carers, Grandparents and special friends,

We would like to remind you of our Grandparents' Day in Term 4. This is a tradition at Princes Hill Primary where grandparents (or special friends if grandparents cannot attend) are invited to enjoy a morning tea and to celebrate the achievements of the Preps in their first year of school. It will be a morning tea held on Thursday December 3rd at 10am to 11am in the foyer of the gym. We would appreciate if on the day you could bring a plate of food to share. Please label the ingredients so we can cater for people with allergies.  Grandparents will be able to see a short performance by the preps,  view the neighbourhood and student portfolios. We look forward to seeing you there and hopefully grandparents too!

The Prep Team

Garden Club Tomorrow

Tomorrow at 9am there will be garden club meeting for any parents interested.

The garden club will be harvesting the winter veges and planting the spring/summer seedlings (including tomatoes, cucumber, corn and more!)

Hope to see some of you there!

Hats!

Hats are compulsory for all students at school during Term 4.

Wide brimmed hats are recommended.

Welcome Back

We are now in forth and final term of the school year. The year has absolutely flown and we are all so impressed with how far the Prep neighbourhood have come as learners.

The children have quickly thrown themselves back into their learning after the break. This week during Learning Agreement, the kids have had the opportunity to represent a part of their holiday using different forms of expression.

We look forward to a fantastic end of a great year with an amazing group of children.

The Prep Team

Week 1 Happenings

Week 1 Happenings

 

Monday

·         Learning Agreement

·         Maths, Writing and Reading workshops

 Tuesday

·         Learning Agreement

·         Life Ed 10.00 – 11.00 (Green group)

·         Physical Education: Prep M and H

·         Art: Prep E and M

·         Italian: Prep H and E

Wednesday

·         Learning Agreement

·         ICT, Writing and Spelling workshops

·         Handwriting

·         Reading

 

Thursday

·         Learning Agreement

·         Literacy provocations

·         Guided reading

·         Italian Prep M

·         Art: Prep H

·         Physical Education: Prep E

·         Life Ed 2.30 – 3.30 (Purple group)

 

Friday

·         Life Ed 9.10 – 10.10 (Orange group)

·         Singing with Deb

·         ICT skills – iPad, Library and mathematics workshops

 

·         Assembly 2.30 - 3.30

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 1 Learning Focus

Writing: Holiday recount. Revisit invitation writing. Personal dictionary.

Maths: Number line: addition focus. Graph of holiday experiences.

Wellbeing: Taking turns and communicating effectively with peers.

Inquiry / ICT: Learning to use the iPad app ‘Puppet Pals’. Puppet pals can be used to tell stories in a fun and interactive way.