Welcome back to Term 4!
We hope everyone enjoyed the school holidays with their families! We are excited for our final term of PP together!
Please take the time to read through our Term 4 outline.
Thanks!
Laura Bombardieri & Bianca Van Ryt
Posts By Laura Bombardieri
PP HAS BEEN BUSY!
There has been lots of excitement in PP over the last few weeks! We have been busy with our 100 days of school, fathers day celebration and book week!
100 DAYS OF SCHOOL
A few weeks ago we celebrated our 100 DAYS OF SCHOOL! This was an exciting milestone for the PPs to reach, well done! 100 day of full time school! We were very surprised and impressed when our PP’s came into school looking 100 years old! Oh how they have aged this term! They all looked fantastic, well done and thank you parents for your support getting them ready!
We had a busy day filled with making 100 link chains, 100 movements, counting by 10s, writing to 100, racing to write our names as many times in 100 seconds, making 100 crowns, necklaces and bracelets, building towers of 100 cups, drawing ourselves as 100 year olds, writing about what we would do with $100 and so much more! After a fun filled morning we celebrated with our picnic morning tea with plates filled with different 100 selections of food! We finished our day by counting the different 100 collections that the children all brought in. We are experts at counting now! Have a go with us at home so we can show you our amazing counting skills.
FATHERS DAY
Last week we had a very special morning with our mums, dads and bunnings! We brushed up on our woodwork skills and made some boxes for Dad’s fathers day surprise. We were blessed with such beautiful weather and really enjoyed the storytime and a big play outside. Thank you to all of the parents that came in for this morning. We hope you had as much fun as we did. We look forward to further celebrating fathers day with you some more this weekend!
BOOK WEEK
Throughout the last few weeks we have been reading all of the nominated books on the book week shortlist. We have shared many giggles and enjoyed getting our way through these awesome new books. On Tuesday we watched the Bigger, Brighter, Better show and dressed up as our favourite book characters. Everyone looked fantastic! Thanks families for helping us get ready for this day, we loved seeing all of the creativity in their costumes!
We look forward to seeing what comes next in our PP term 3 adventure!
Bye for now!
Pre-Primary Investigations & NAIDOC Celebrations
Welcome back to TERM 3 in PP!
Pre-Primary began this new term by celebrating NAIDOC Week through many different activities. Students have thoroughly enjoyed learning more about bush tucker and exploring in our own bush food garden here at St. Emilie’s.
Students are enjoying their morning Investigations where they have been practising their skills in creative ways using their imaginations! Miss Van Ryt is settling in well to Pre-Primary Blue and has felt very welcomed and is excited for the semester ahead.
Thanks for reading! We will see you again soon! Love PPB & PPG!
Welcome back! Term 3 in PP
Welcome back!
We hope you have had some enjoyable family time this school break! We have been excited to have all of our PP friends back to school!
This term we have lots of fun activities, surprises and adventures planned in our classrooms. We look forward to the term ahead!
Please take the time to read our TERM 3 WELCOME LETTER attached below. If you have any questions please sent us an email so that we can help.
Take care.
From
Miss Bombardieri & Miss Van Ryt
The Pre-Primary Teachers
PP News
National Sorry Day
Wednesday the 26th of May was National Sorry Day. We enjoyed discussing the importance of this day and how we can celebrate Indigenous culture. We have been sharing stories around Indigenous culture and reflecting on fairness and equality. This week we made handprint flags with the Aboriginal flag colours. We discussed the meaning of all of the colours on the Aboriginal Flag. The yellow represents the sun, the red represents the land and the black represents the people. We are looking forward to continuing to explore Indigenous culture next week as we head into Reconciliation week.
Sustainability
Sustainability has been a big focus in our PP classrooms this week. We have been looking at different ways that we can be sustainable at our school and in our homes. We are developing a very special appreciation for our wonderful earth and the beautiful gifts of nature. We have talked about how we only have one planet earth and how important it is that we look after it. Ask as at home if we remember some of the ways we can look after our planet.
PP Learning in Literacy!
Learning in Literacy
This week in Literacy we have been focusing on reading, sentence writing and CVC words. Building up these skills takes time, practice, repetition and lots of encouragement.
It has been wonderful seeing all the PP’s ‘giving it a go’ and trying their best!
Keep up the great work Pre Primary Gold and Blue!
Sentence Writing
We are reminded when writing a sentence to use a capital letter to start a sentence, finger space between words and a full stop to finish.
We are trying our hardest to use the correct formation when writing letters.
We have all been doing a great job with our phonetic spelling of words.
Well done PP’s!
Another great week in PP!
We have had a wonderful week 2 in PP!
It was great to see everyone’s happy and excited faces after the long weekend! This week has been filled with exploring, building, laughing, investigating, sharing and joy.
BOX CONSTRUCTION!
Both PP classes have shown a huge interest in box construction this term. They have been creative engineers building bags, animals, rocket and race cars! We love to see how the PP’s use their imagination to recycle old boxes and turn them into something special. We have started to look at how to make a plan to go along with our construction. We have used the plans as a guide to making our creation. We have then used arrows to label the different parts of our creations. We have started to make plans for block, lego and mobilo creations too! Have a look at some of our work below! Well done on having a go to sound out different words in your plans PP’s! We love to see phonetic spelling (spelling a word based on the sounds you hear not the correct spelling) in PP, this is an important developmental milestone in learning to write!
If you have any boxes at home please send them in so that we can put them to great use!
Literacy!
We have been busy in literacy this week learning to sound out and write CVC words, write sentences, respond to stories and read decodable books. We have almost finished learning all of the sounds in the alphabet- well done PP’s!
CVC words are words created using a consonant, vowel, and a consonant. Vowels are the letters A, E, I, O and U, while consonants are all the other letters in the alphabet. Some examples of CVC words can include ‘new’, ‘hat’, ‘cot’, ‘lit’, and ‘pit’. Learning how to read and write CVC words can be lots of fun. You might like to try some of these games at home; using magnetic letters, painting letters, play dough letters or asking your child to tell you the sounds in different CVC words in the car on the way to school.
Here are some snaps of us learning in Literacy this week!
We are excited to see what week 3 brings! Bye for now!
Love PPG & PPB
Welcome back to PP!
Week 4 in PP!
Another great week in PP!
As we have been settling in, we have been focusing on making great choices for ourselves and for one another – in and out of the classroom. We came up with lots of ‘green choices that help us to work and play in a safe and friendly way. We also identified those ‘red’ choices that stop us from being our best self.
We are striving towards making great choices such as; sharing, helping others, letting others join in, packing away, using kind words and gentle hands and we have been doing a super job! We are learning that making great choices is really valued and helpful – not only here at school but also at home! 🙂
We love learning through play!
We learn though exploring, investigating, singing, dancing, role playing and building and a whole lot more. We are able to learn from each other, the teacher and the environment. Here are some happy snaps from this week…
See you all next week!
Our first week in Pre Primary!
What a super busy and fun first week in Pre Primary we have all had! We have really enjoyed making new friends and playing on the big playground! Don’t be surprised if we are a bit tired this weekend from all the investigating, dancing, creating, and exploring we have been up to!
Independence
Now that we are in PP, it is important that we continue to build up our independence. Please support us with this by allowing us to carry our own school bag as it is very important for a number of reasons! It helps us to strengthen our core muscles which supports us to create good posture, sit upright on the mat, focus on learning and engage in physical activity. It also helps children know that you believe in them and in their ability to do things for themselves, which builds resilience and self belief.
There are many ways at home you can help us to become independent learners, such as getting us to help you with jobs like setting the table, hanging the washing, allowing us to dress ourselves (we are big enough to do this on our own now!), letting us make our own bed, brush our teeth and pack away our toys! The more opportunities you allow your child to do for themselves the better as it builds confidence, independence and wellbeing.
Here are some pictures of us getting busy!
We are excited for another week of PP! Check out our blog next week to see what we have been up to!
Bye for now, love to PPG & PPB!