Tuesday, 9 June 2015
Happy Birthday
Happy 5th birthday to Priya last week and Jordy on Monday. PPH is growing up too fast!
Monday, 1 June 2015
Week 6 Merit Awards
Week 6 Merit award winners in PPH were:
Madison, Vinny and Rhavi.
Joe won Mrs Kartana's Indonesian award.
Happy 5th Birthday to Cameron and Sophie.
Well done to all these superstars.
Yellow Day
Yy for Yellow day!!!!
It was all about playing with all that was yellow, making shape yachts, doing yoga and eating yellow minion cakes. Happy Birthday Cameron! Thank you to Jodie and Cameron for the cakes.
What a great day it was learning about the letter Y sound.
Thursday, 28 May 2015
Week 5, Term 2
Hi everyone!
Step into Week 5 with us...
The story of the Week was " Jack in the Beanstalk". We studied the letter sound J for Jack. Jordy, Joe and Jaz were put on the sound tree. The children made their own beanstalks with castles at the top of them just like they heard in the story. The children joined in every time to the chorus " Fe Fi Fo Fum'. It's always exciting when we meet new characters just like the big and scary Giant.
In mathematics, the children received their own bag of magic jellybeans and sorted them into their colours.We then looked at the concepts more than and less than. The activity helped the children think about if their number is greater than or smaller than another number. Working with numbers can be fun and yummy!
Don't forget our real life beans! We are watering them and watching them grow every week. We hope they grow nice and tall. The children listened to a story called the 'Lucky Seed' on the interactive whiteboard. They learnt all the things they needed to look after their plant; sun, water and soil. Ask your child about the buffalo in the story and they will tell you why the seed was very lucky.
Later on in the week we looked at the letter sound " V' for vase and volcanoes. The most exciting part of our week was when we made ERUPTING VOLCANOES! what a blast the children had.
TEAMWORK!!! building mountains together.
Step into Week 5 with us...
The story of the Week was " Jack in the Beanstalk". We studied the letter sound J for Jack. Jordy, Joe and Jaz were put on the sound tree. The children made their own beanstalks with castles at the top of them just like they heard in the story. The children joined in every time to the chorus " Fe Fi Fo Fum'. It's always exciting when we meet new characters just like the big and scary Giant.
In mathematics, the children received their own bag of magic jellybeans and sorted them into their colours.We then looked at the concepts more than and less than. The activity helped the children think about if their number is greater than or smaller than another number. Working with numbers can be fun and yummy!
Don't forget our real life beans! We are watering them and watching them grow every week. We hope they grow nice and tall. The children listened to a story called the 'Lucky Seed' on the interactive whiteboard. They learnt all the things they needed to look after their plant; sun, water and soil. Ask your child about the buffalo in the story and they will tell you why the seed was very lucky.
Later on in the week we looked at the letter sound " V' for vase and volcanoes. The most exciting part of our week was when we made ERUPTING VOLCANOES! what a blast the children had.
TEAMWORK!!! building mountains together.
Friday, 22 May 2015
Term 2 star citizen
It's always difficult to choose just one Pre-Primary to receive an award. We could choose the whole class.
Well done to Mahley Garcia for receiving the star citizen for showing appreciation this Term.
from Miss Horrocks, Mrs Peacock and Mrs Jackson.
Thursday, 21 May 2015
Family Camp
Don't forget to get in fast for Family Camp!!!! Notes went home in your child's bag or to their older sibling in the school.
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Term 2: Week Four in PPH
Let's step into week 4:
Literacy: Listening to a familiar fairytale and learning how to remember the main parts to develop sequencing and retelling skills. As a class, we discussed the setting, the characters, beginning, middle and ending of the story. I love hearing the rich discussion that comes from a shared big book experience.
Spelling: Revising set Three letter sounds:
f l o u g b and moving onto set Four; w, j,v, x,y, z, q. The main focus
sounds were g for goat and w for water. The children have started to use their knowledge
of their sounds to blend together to hear and make small words.
Grace and Georgie made our sound tree.
Numeracy: The children have been learning the concepts before and after. They made their own number line to write the numbers 0-10 in the correct order. They are practising learning the count on strategy where you can count onwards from any number in the 1-10 number line. Sometimes we have to go further as PPH are getting too clever at their counting.
Science: life and living Strand: The
children are starting their investigation on " how to grow a broad
bean". They planted their beans and we talked about the things a living
plant needs in order for healthy growth . These beans are going to be observed
every week as they grow. The children get to record and measure the changes. We
hope to have a tall beanstalk like in Jack and the beanstalk.
This
week's fairytale focus was " The Three Billy Goats Gruff". Check out
the fun learning experiences that were carried out during the week to get to
know and understand the story.
Big
book reading and animation version
Music
Retell through dramatisation
Picture
story map
Character
and setting artwork.
Sensory
table
Sometimes we just have fun when a situation arrives...
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