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Prep B Class News Term 1 – 2020
Aim High
Teacher: Nancy Bucher Email: [email protected]
Specialist Lessons to remember
Assembly Alternate Mondays at 1:30pm in the
hall.
Music is Wednesday at 11:15am.
P.E is Wednesday at 11:45am. Please ensure
your child has their hat, water bottle and
running shoes.
Library is Tuesday at 11:15am. Please bring a
library bag to take home a book.
Health is Tuesday at 11:45am.
Banking day is Tuesday. Information will be
provided if you wish to participate in school
banking.
Points of interest
The first bell rings at 8:20am. School begins at
8:30am. Please ensure students are on time.
11 February – Parent Information Night
19 February – P&C Meeting
28 February – Colour Run
13 March – Cross Country and Fun Run
16 March – Harmony Day Parade
18 March – P&C AGM
20 March – National Day of Action Against
Bullying
27 March – Parent Special Visitors Day
31 March – Parent Teacher Interviews
3 April – Easter Bonnet Parade
Curriculum focus – what we will be working on in class this term
Content Assessment
English Students will listen to and read texts to explore predictable text structures and
common visual patterns in a range of literary and non-literary texts, including fiction and non-fiction books and everyday
texts.
Students will participate in the Blast Off Reading program which is designed to get prep students reading books. They will
begin a version of home reading during the later part of the term.
Students will choose a favourite familiar story and give a short oral response to
the story. The teacher will also be observing how
well the students are beginning to demonstrate reading and writing
behaviours.
Maths Students will spend the majority of their Maths lessons investigating Number and Place Value. They will be counting objects,
subitising (knowing how many is there just by looking) and identifying how many is in
a group. Students will be exploring how to sort and
classify objects according to their size, shape and colour.
Teachers will be observing the students’ ability to count, subitise and identify how many.
Students will be assessed on their
ability to sort and classify a collection of objects.
Content Assessment
Science Students will be undertaking a unit on the
weather. They will learn to link how the changes in daily weather to the way people
modify their behaviour and dress for the different conditions. Students will investigate how changes in the weather might affect
animals such as pets, animals that hibernate or migratory animals.
Students will undertake a variety
of hands-on and written activities to demonstrate their scientific
understanding of why everyday lives are impacted by the changes in weather.
HASS (Humanities
and Social Sciences)
Students will investigate their own personal story, exploring their family background and
relationships within their family. Students will develop an understanding of their own history and appreciate diverse family groups using
our family photo pages.
Students will identify similarities and differences between families
and talk about a past event.
The Arts (Drama)
Unit 1 - My Place Students will make and respond to drama by
exploring the school/local community/imagined places as stimulus for process drama and dramatic play.
Students are not formally assessed on this topic.
Technology In this unit the students will explore and investigate technologies, including their purpose and how they meet personal and
social needs in the Prep classroom.
Students are not formally assessed on this learning area this term.
Health Unit: I can do it
Students will explore information about what makes them unique, identifying their strengths and achievements. They will
identify safe settings where they can move and play safely and identify actions that keep
them safe in different settings. They will also identify different emotions people experience in different situations.
Students are not formally
assessed on this learning area this term.
P.E Unit: Let’s Get Moving
Students will learn how to perform a range of
fundamental movement skills and apply them to solve movement challenges. They will learn to apply rules to keep them safe and follow
these rules in simple games.
Students will be assessed on
their ability to perform running, jumping, hopping and galloping
over 10m in a straight line. They will solve movement challenges and demonstrate practices to
stay safe in different activities.
Music Students will learn to identify and keep the
beat, sing in unison and in echo with the teacher, and will play egg maracas.
Students will be assessed by
how well they move to the beat, sing in tune with their teacher
and their peers, and how accurately they keep the beat using correct instrument
technique when playing egg maracas.