Welcome to Prep Gold's Place
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Save the Date: Junior Disco 24th May 2013
6pm-8.30pm Dress up as your favourite Book Character!
Free dress day 21st May
This is a fundraiser for the Spring Fair. On this Free dress day parents are asked to donate small toys or items that could be used as prizes at stalls on the day of the fair. Please see newsletter for more details. If you would like to receive the newsletter electronically please go to the school website and scroll down to the bottom and click the link :)
Parent Help Roster - Term 2
School Photos - 9th May - please wear formal uniform
Information and order forms were sent home on Friday 26th April. Please return promptly. Thankyou.
We shared an event from our holidays and copied a sentence!
Uniform Change- Term 2.
Please take note of changes under the tab above called "Weekly Schedule". Our Sports lesson has changed from Tuesdays to Wednesdays for term 2 only and in turn Sports uniform needs to be worn on different days.
Easter Story.
We have been learning about the easter story. Each day this week students from years Prep to 7 have re-enacted the Easter story. We have spoken about the importance of Palm Sunday, the Last Supper, Jesus dying on the cross and rising again.
Students took these home on Wednesday to share and re-tell the stories at home with their families.
Students took these home on Wednesday to share and re-tell the stories at home with their families.
Caritas Australia
Wednesday 27.03.2013 will be the last day we have to fundraise money for Caritas. The class with the most donations by 3pm WEDNESDAY wins a class PIZZA PARTY!!!!
Caritas is one of the world’s largest aid and development networks and works in partnership with marginalised communities in over 200 countries and territories.
Your donation makes a life-changing difference to marginalised communities around the world.
Thanks!
Caritas is one of the world’s largest aid and development networks and works in partnership with marginalised communities in over 200 countries and territories.
Your donation makes a life-changing difference to marginalised communities around the world.
Thanks!
Chatting Children
I hope your first chatting children experience was a positive one! The children seem very excited and have been telling us about some of the activities you have been busy doing at home. Please return on WEDNESDAY 27th so that we can send another home on Thursday for those of you who would like to continue over the holidays.
Our Week at a glance 18/03- 22/03
On Monday all Prep teachers were released from class to plan for term 2. Students re-visited numbers 1-5 and completed a handwriting task. We are working hard to hold our pencil correctly.
Magic word of the week: it
Letters of the week: w and i
Number: 7
Magic word of the week: it
Letters of the week: w and i
Number: 7
Our Week at a glance 11/03-15/03
This week we will continue using the Hungry Caterpillar text with a major focus on beginning sounds in words and the days of the week. We have also been talking about the concepts of print (Where is the front cover, back cover, spine, title, pages, point to a word, point to a letter). Using your library book or your bed time story, see if you can find these things!
Also this week we will focus on 2 letters: a and s. Be sure to check out the "Letters so far" page of this website for photos of our craft.
Our word of the week will be 'it'.
We will be learning to write the number 6 and 7 and using objects to make groups of a given number of objects.
Also this week we will focus on 2 letters: a and s. Be sure to check out the "Letters so far" page of this website for photos of our craft.
Our word of the week will be 'it'.
We will be learning to write the number 6 and 7 and using objects to make groups of a given number of objects.
Our Week at a glance
Week beginning 04.03.13
Chickens! Chickens! Chickens! The children are very excited to have chickens in the classroom. The chickens are part of our Religion unit - Easter and new life and also cover our Science curriculum learning about life cycles. We have 10 chickens in the incubator that should all hatch some time this week. Please feel welcome to come in and have a look in the afternoons. See picture below.
Also this week we are looking at the text The Very Hungry Caterpillar. This book will have several focus lessons.
Maths: numbers 1-5 & Days of the week
English: Letter c for caterpillar. C has 2 sounds: 'c' for caterpillar and 's' as in cent.
Concepts of print, beginning sounds in words, story retell and sequencing
Health: Identifying foods in the story as healthy or un-healthy foods.
I have attached a printable version of the Very Hungry Caterpillar if you would like to share the story at home.
Chickens! Chickens! Chickens! The children are very excited to have chickens in the classroom. The chickens are part of our Religion unit - Easter and new life and also cover our Science curriculum learning about life cycles. We have 10 chickens in the incubator that should all hatch some time this week. Please feel welcome to come in and have a look in the afternoons. See picture below.
Also this week we are looking at the text The Very Hungry Caterpillar. This book will have several focus lessons.
Maths: numbers 1-5 & Days of the week
English: Letter c for caterpillar. C has 2 sounds: 'c' for caterpillar and 's' as in cent.
Concepts of print, beginning sounds in words, story retell and sequencing
Health: Identifying foods in the story as healthy or un-healthy foods.
I have attached a printable version of the Very Hungry Caterpillar if you would like to share the story at home.
| very_hungry_caterpillar_printable_booklet.pdf |
Watching the chicken hatch was very exciting and a great learning experience! 8.03.13
Our week at a glance
Week beginning 25.2.13
Letter t for train track. T is a quiet letter that doesn't use our voice box when we say its sound. See below for pictures.
Letter k for king. We brainstormed many words starting with k like kangaroo & koala. Picture below.
Number 3 & 4.
We have listened to many 'All about Me' talks. They have been marvellous.
Humpty Dumpty: We focused on Rhyming words and then got to make our very own Humpty Dumpty to take home and share with our families.
We are also well into our Healthy Eating unit. We have identified foods as healthy and unhealthy and designed our own healthy sanwiches.
Week Beginning 18th Feb
Literacy:
Letter m. We brainstormed lots of m words and used crepe paper to make our m's look like a mouse.
We have also revisited letters b, h, d, j that we had already learnt about.
Rhyme: 3 Blind Mice
Maths: - numbers 2 & 3
- Shapes and colours
Thursday: This was our first Outdoor Activity session and was thoroughly enjoyed by all. Activities included a high obstacle course, painting, box construction, cooking, bikes, bean bag throw, big block build and alphabet mats.
Friday: Assembly. We made 3 Blind Mice headbands whilst focusing on rhyming words and the number 3!
Last updated 18.02.2013
