Blue day

This Friday is BLUE DAY!

Come to school dressed in blue and support UNICEF. UNICEF is the United Nations Children's Fund. It works in 190 countries and territories with a focus on improving the lives of the most disadvantaged and excluded children. 

Gold coin donations can be handed to your home group teacher in the morning.

Prizes will be awarded to the bluest person in each Neighbourhood.

For more information about UNICEF visit this link: http://www.unicef.org.au/about-us.aspx

Week 4 Happenings

Monday

• PMP
• Reading, writing and mathematics workshops

Tuesday

• Learning Agreement
• Italian: Prep H and E
• Art: Prep E and M
• Physical Education: Prep M and H
• Buddy Time

Wednesday

• Learning Agreement
• Reading, Writing and Mathematics workshops
• Handwriting

Thursday

• Learning Agreement
• Reading, writing and mathematics workshops
• Italian: Prep M
• Physical Education: Prep E
• Art: Prep H 
• Guided reading

 Friday 

• BLUE DAY
• Wonderings
• Wellbeing and mathematics workshops
• Library
• Singing
• Assembly 3 - 3.30pm in the Gym (pick up from the Prep neighbourhood)

Week 4 Learning Focus

Week 4 Learning Focus

Inquiry Question - How do we affect other peoples emotions and how do you know what other feel are feeling?

Reading: The children will continue to expand their strategies for reading through a range of reading experiences. The children will be explore emotion through ‘My many coloured days’ and complete ‘Colour symbol image’ reading response. We will make a book where they can match photos of faces to feeling names.

Writing:  Writing an explanation of their ‘island'. Writing a reflection of Learning Agreement – with focus on writing goals. Handwriting practice.

Numeracy: The children will explore how to represent teen numbers using tens frames. Some children will be given the opportunity to represent larger numbers using bundles of 10 and 1s.

Wellbeing: Body language. How can we read the signs of other people to understand how they might be feeling? We will be exploring face, tone of voice and body movement.

 

Wellbeing workshop - Body language

Today the Preps participated in a workshop about body language. Learn to 'read the signs' that people give us that let us know how they are feeling and is an important skill to learn that promotes positive relationships. If children recognise how someone is feeling through their body language, they can try to support their peers; giving them space to calm down if they are feeling cross, giving a hug if a friend is feeling sad or recognising that someone is feeling left out and including them.

Body language

• facial expressions
• tone of voice
• body placement / movement

PMP

Here are some photos of the kids in action during PMP today.

Many thanks to the parents who came to help.

Gardening Group

This Friday, the 7th of August, there will be a Gardening Group happening.

If you would like to be involved, meet at the veggie plot near the gym just after the 9am bell.

There are lots of seedlings to be planted and plots to be prepared for the neighbourhoods to plant out.

Please come along if you are free and interested!!

Books we have been reading...

The preps have read and discussed "The Terrible Suitcase" below. The book involved a girl who is angry about having a suitcase instead of a back pack but during the course of the story she realizes she just needs her imagination to turn things around and make others around her happy too. As we have begun to talk about our emotions in our inquiry, this was a great book for the children to relate to.