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Welcome to Term 3! We hope that you had a restful break! This will be another busy term, packed with exciting events and opportunities for learning. We will be having an excursion to the Kew Traffic School, our 100^th day of Prep celebration and our Father’s Day celebration, just to mention a few of the events planned for the coming weeks. We are looking forward to another fun and productive term!  

Kew Traffic School Excursion

At the Kew Traffic School, the Preps will learn road safety in a range of everyday scenarios, by engaging in imaginative play. The day will involve an interactive presentation, a guided walk around the traffic school and bike riding around the track (on bikes suited to all sizes and skill levels) provided by the traffic school. Please note that all students will be required to bring a well-fitted helmet.

100 Days of School Celebration

On Wednesday 29th July, our Preps will celebrate 100 Days of School! To mark this special milestone, students will take part in a variety of fun, hands-on activities centred around the number 100. Children are invited to come to school in free dress and are encouraged to be as creative as they like in celebrating the day.

We will start the morning with a Prep Assembly and parade in the Stadium at 9:00am, and parents and carers are warmly invited to attend. In preparation for the celebration, our Week 2 ‘Show & Share’ topic will be “100 looks like…”. Students will bring in a snap lock bag filled with a collection of 100 small items found around the home.

Literacy

This term, we will continue to develop our decoding skills by working on CVC words, while also practising common digraphs such as /sh/, /ch/ and /th/, and beginning to read more complex words. When engaging with narratives through reading and listening, students will focus on identifying key features such as characters, events, beginnings and endings. We will also learn that texts can take many forms, including signs, books and digital texts. In writing, the emphasis will be on using our phonics knowledge to encode words by listening for and writing individual sounds. Students will continue to build and extend simple sentences, while also exploring recount and procedural texts.

 Home Reading

Please listen to your child read each night to help foster a love of reading and support the development of key skills, including decoding, word recognition, fluency, and comprehension. When reading together, encourage your child to pause at full stops and other punctuation marks. Remind them to track the words smoothly with their finger as they read. Rereading the same book several times helps children become more automatic in their reading. As they revisit familiar texts, take the time to acknowledge and celebrate their progress as they grow in confidence and fluency as readers.

Mathematics

In Maths, the Preps will continue to develop their understanding and fluency in the areas of Number and Measurement. In Number, students will practise sequencing numbers to 20 and identifying ‘one less / 10 less / 100 less than a given number. They will use role-play, hands-on materials and drawings to represent simple subtraction stories. In Measurement, students will explore and use everyday language to describe attributes such as length, mass, capacity and duration. This includes using terms like ‘tall’, ‘short’, ‘wide’, ‘long’ and ‘high’ when describing objects. 

Show and Share

This term, we will continue our weekly ‘Show and Share’ topics. Please refer to your child’s Term 3 ‘Show and Share’ topic list and roster sheet for more information and weekly details. 

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