School Holidays You may wish to revise some of the following concepts over the holidays to support our learning from Semester One. We wish all our families a safe and enjoyable holiday with their children. The children are on holiday break from Monday 8th July and Term 3 will resume on Tuesday 23rd July. English Handwriting - This term the children have been participating in handwriting lessons, focusing on the formation and positioning of upper and lower case letters. Adjectives - adjectives are words that describe a noun. The children have been adding adjectives to sentences to make them sound more interesting. i.e. The spider was in the web. Add an adjective = The black spider was in the web.    Sight Words - We continue to revise all introduced sight words including reading, Golden, Red, Blue and Green words.   The children are expected to read these words in isolation and are now beginning to rec...

Literacy The phonics focus in literacy during Weeks 5 and 6 continues to be initial consonant blends. A blend is... "two consonants that blend together, you hear both sounds". We have already taught L Blends: bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl And this week we began teaching R Blends: br, cr, fr,  (Week 6)   dr, tr, pr, dr We are currently learning the blue set of sight words. Our Big Write topic for Week 6 is WA Day .  Numeracy Our focus in numeracy currently is on addition number stories up to the value of 5. An example of this is: if I had 1 blue pencil and 4 red pencils, how many pencils do I have altogether? Children can then represent this number story with a number bond. Below is a link for some maths games that could be played at home with your child. https://www.education.wa.edu.au/documents/43634991/0/PRE_PRIMARY_NUMBERS_IDEAS.pdf/3fea4b75-4949-597e-5dd4-c82c3e6caaa0 Incursion Permission Please ...

Welcome back for Term 2 We hope everyone has had a relaxing holiday and a wonderful Easter.  We are looking forward to getting settled back into our routines and achieving our learning objectives for the term ahead. Literacy The phonics focus in literacy has been the double consonants; ll, ff, ss, zz.  W hen we read a double consonant, we just say one sound. i.e. hiss h-i-ss. We have now completed all the 'red' level sight words.  Please help you child to review these at home.  As of Week 2 we are beginning the 'blue' level sight words.     We are continuing to focus on reading and writing three letter words (CVC) i.e. cat, leg, big W e have also been learning about nouns -  a person, place or thing.  Check out the Noun Town we made!      Numeracy This week we have started to learn about volume. We focused on the language of volume including more than, less than, full a...

       

Constable Care Excursion   On Wednesday 3rd April and Thursday 4th April, the Pre-primary students went on excursion to the Constable Care Safety School.   The Pre-primary Health program focusses on educating our students about Road, Passenger and Pedestrian Safety.   Through visiting the Constable Care Safety School the students had the opportunity to engage in the realistic urban environment and apply their knowledge in a safe way.   The space provides educators with supports to teach students about road hazards and safety skills in a life-like setting.   The students took turns to be pedestrians and cyclists.   The space included a railway crossing, a train station, traffic lights, traffic signs, a bus stop, footpaths and roads, pedestrian crossings and community buildings. A key message that we learnt was STOP, LOOK, LISTEN, THINK.   The 4 things to do before crossing the road.   The Safety School runs holiday sessions for familie...

In Literacy We are revising the single sounds V, P, and J and have started to read the red words an, has and as. We are writing simple sentences using the sight words look, dad, in and like. The students should be able to read all the golden sight words and begin to include them in their writing. We are building our vocabulary in using the words for the parts of our body. Our Big Talk discussion is about playing games. Please ensure guided reading books are being returned on Mondays and Thursdays as other groups will need the books.  Students who do not return their books will not receive another one until it is returned. A reminder that Library Day is Monday, your child should place their library books in their library bag in the green box on Mondays. In Numeracy We are revising the number 1-10 and counting a collection of objects to 10. We are measuring the weight of objects by hefting. Hefting means to hold one object in one hand and anothe...

Welcome to the Room 6 blog. Welcome to Pre-primary 2019.   We are so excited to be working alongside you and your child this year.   Pre-primary is a very exciting year.   The growth and progress that is made is truly remarkable   especially in the student’s reading and writing abilities.   It is wonderful to watch as they learn and try new experiences.   I’m sure you will be amazed at what your child will achieve over the coming year. We have had a busy start to the school year.   It has been great to see the children settling into the routines of school life.   Establishing familiar routines early on will help to foster a safe, happy and positive learning environment for all.     A big part of Pre-primary is working together as a whole class as well as in small groups.   This term, a large emphasis will be placed on developing appropriate and positive social skills to work together cooperatively.   We will be doi...