Today we decided to make division a little tricky this morning. The students sat back to back, with one student holding the division cards and the other with the equipment. The students had to communicate with each other by explaining and confirming their understandings of division. Did you realise how important talking and listening is during learning?
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| Monday 14th July | What did you do on the holidays? – share some interesting things that you did? |
| Monday 22st July | Share some family rules that you have at home.
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| Monday 28th July | Share some information about your grandparents.
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| Monday 4th August | Bring or share something about your family.
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| Monday 11th August | Bring or share something that is important to you.
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| Monday 18th August | Bring or share anything they want to!
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| Monday 25th August | Who keeps us safe in our community?
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| Monday 1st September | Who keeps you safe at school?
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| Monday 8th September | What is your name, address and telephone number? – this helps to keep you safe if you are lost! |
| Monday 15th September | Bring or share anything they want to!
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Prep A have been really enjoying the PMP sessions held each Wednesday at 10:00am. The students have been discussing each station and what they found difficult. We have talked about different muscles needed to complete each station. The students are becoming more aware of their bodies and how to use them effectively. Thank you to Romeo’s, Zephyr’s, Josiah’s and Emilija’s mum for helping with the sessions. They have been a real success because you are there to support and encourage the students each week. We all appreciate your assistance!
The preps enjoyed some game time with their buddies. The prep children played a variety of games while strengthening their relationship with their buddy. It was a nice time to relax and enjoy each other’s company while feeling good about beating the grade 6’s in many of the games!
As part of our CAFE (comprehension, accuracy, fluency and expanding vocabulary) reading program, the children are working on reading their words with accuracy. When wearing the glasses, the children know to try their best at decoding the sounds of tricky words and then re-reading to correctly read aloud the word.
Here are the Prep B rockstar readers in action:
Michael I’m so proud of this piece of writing. You followed all the instructions and concentrated so hard to make your sentences more interesting. And to think this was a quick 20 minute writing lesson! A very well earned congratulations Michael!
Today we brainstormed some words that we could use instead of went. Our learning intention was to make our sentences more interesting. I was blown away by the students list of words to use. I ran out of room on the board! I can’t wait to see these words used in our writing. Well done Prep A, a very impressive list!
It’s great to see the students love for writing even when it’s a rainy lunch time. These two girls could have done anything, but instead decided to practise their writing. Well done girls, great to see your enthusiasm!
Prep A have been enjoying CAFE reading this term. Reading to self has become a more fun yet quieter experience. How are they quieter I hear you ask? Well they have been reading into their whisper phones, allowing them to really listen to ‘how’ and ‘what’ they are reading. It has supported their understanding of their books and reading more smoothly. They are really concentrating more too! Most importantly if they speak too loud it’s too loud for their ears! This ensures a quiet space to learn to practise their individual learning intentions.
In Prep C, we help each other to learn. We support each other in our learning and we are very good teachers. In these pictures, we were helping each other to remember the correct starting point and formation of the letters c,a,o,d and g. It is great working together to learn!