TERM 4 2024
Welcome back to Term 4 everyone.
We hope you all enjoyed the term break with your family and friends. We are sure the children will all be happy, refreshed and ready to go! Term 4 in Prep is set to be another exciting and busy term where we celebrate all the wonderful things the students have achieved in their first year of school.
If at any stage you have any concerns please arrange a time to see your child’s classroom teacher.
We are looking forward to a fun and busy Term 4.
LITERACY
Our daily Reading workshop sessions will continue during Term 4 with the focus being upon a weekly study of a particular fairytale /traditional tale from the past. During this time the students will work on a variety of literacy based activities while a focus group is working with their teacher. The Prep students will continue to develop reading behaviours such as using the picture for clues, reading for meaning and using phonemic awareness to decode words. We are extremely appreciative of those who have volunteered to assist with listening to the students read each day and look forward to this continuing in Term 4.
In Writing, we will continue with our Weekend Writing each Monday. It has been wonderful to see the growth the children have made with their writing throughout Term 3. In Term 4, we will be encouraging the children to add more detail to their writing and they will be introduced to the skill of rereading and editing their own work. Each week we will continue to have a class focus for our Seed writing. This is generally based around our CBL topic. In Term 4, we will be introducing our Seed Shelf / Box during writing sessions. Children will be encouraged to bring in items from home that can be added to the shelf / box. These items will become ‘Seeds’ to inspire and extend their thinking and lead to some wonderful writing topics. In handwriting, we will continue to focus on correct letter formation and placement of letters on dotted thirds. This term our students will be writing exclusively on dotted thirds.
SHOW AND SHARE
Thank you to all the families that have supported our Show and Share topics in Term 3. We look forward to the children continuing to develop their Speaking and Listening skills throughout Term 4.
MATHS
In Term 4, we will continue to build on the student’s number sense with problem solving tasks that require students to use different strategies to solve simple mathematical problems. The children will work on further developing their knowledge of numbers to 20 and beyond, by counting forwards and backwards. We will make models using a range of materials such as tens frames, unifix cubes and number lines. The Students will be exploring the value of money and will be introduced to the concept of sharing. During Term 4, we will also be exploring the topic of Mass and Capacity and the students will be provided with lots of hands on experiences to explore this topic. We are also planning some fun activities relating to the passage of time. This will assist the children to strengthen their awareness of various mathematical concepts including linking days of the week to familiar events.
CBL
In Term 4 our Challenge Based Learning topic is Stories from the Past. As part of this unit, we will be exploring ‘Fairytales, Traditional Tales & First Nations’. To celebrate our learning of this on Wednesday 6th November we will be holding a ‘Fairytale Dress Up Day’ where students can come as their favourite fairytale or nursery rhyme character. On this day we will also be attending an incursion where we are going to be watching a performance by the Flying book worm company.
SWIMMING
During Term 4 the Preps will participate in a swimming program that will run for 2 weeks. We will be seeking some Parent Helpers with this event.
END OF YEAR ACTIVITIES
As the end of year approaches, we would just like you to be aware of some of the fun end of year activities that we have planned to celebrate the wonderful year we have had together. Some of these include:
We will provide you with more information and notice as time comes closer and we hope the students are just as excited as we are for these fun celebrations together.
Kind Regards
The Prep Teachers
