Prep

**__Teachers:__ Diane West/Jenny Marshall & Karen Mayall** **Our Preps have a really busy term 2! ** **Classroom Timetables ** We will be going on an excursion to see Circus OZ, we will be having our own circus day at school (start working on the costumes) and we have the Cross Country House sports day.
 *  P r e p P a g e **
 * Our theme for this term is __ Celebrations and the Circus __. **

Below are some of the topics and skills we are currently working on, along with some ideas about how you might further support their learning at home.

**__Devotions/Bible__**


 * <span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 110%;">We are focusing on learning our memory verses and following the school CLAY program. This term the two topics covered will be Harmony and Sincerity.
 * <span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 110%;">Singing, dancing and praising our God is also a big part of our devotions and bible lessons.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive;">**At home:** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive;">ask your child to tell you about a Bible story they have enjoyed recently and re-read it together from a children's bible.

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 20px;">**__Maths__** left and right. U<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 14px;">se this terminology when you are describing something or asking you child to get something
 * This term we are learning about the numbers from 10 to 20
 * Last term we learnt about concepts such as below, above, beside, behind, between, on top and next to and
 * We are looking at patterns/repeating patterns.

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; font-size: 16px;">**At home:** ask your child to point out numbers in their environment and practice counting by 1's, 10's and 5's. =__**<span style="color: #005bff; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive;">Literacy **__=

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive;">This term we will be spending time on learning all the different sounds that these letters make; <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive;">Aa (5 sounds), Dd (2 sounds), Cc(3 sounds), Uu (2 sounds), Tt (2 sounds), Ss (2 sounds), Ii (2 sounds), Nn (2 sounds) and Ff (2 sounds) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive;">. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive;">We will be doing lots of recount writing and learning about nouns, verbs and adjectives.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive;">Most weeks the children will be rotating through literacy groups which gives the teachers a chance to work with them intensively on developing their reading skills and strategies.

<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive;">** At Home: **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive;">Continue to read to and with your child every night and ask your child about what they have just read. Always prompt them to think about what word would make sense then ask them to check the initial letter to see if it matches what they said.