Reading Eggs

Welcome to Reading Eggs! 

Good evening Parents,

We are very lucky to have an early subscription that will follow on into next year so we can utilise this wonderful program for the rest of the term and over the holidays. The reading eggs program is a wonderful online reading program that focuses on phonics and helping your child to be a more confident reader. The Reading Eggs program is both motivational and fun way for children to get excited about reading.

Each child has been given a login which is inside their clear reading folder book so they can access the program at home ( Please return these folders back to school ASAP). Each child has or will do a reading placement test at school. This will place them in the correct map and reading level within the program. They need to finish their lessons on their map before moving forward. I am able to login as a teacher and check the progress of each of the students as they complete their allocated lessons. The children can read books, complete lessons and create and change their avatar (which is often the first thing they like to do).

The program is meant to become part of the children's reading routine for the rest of the term and into next year.  For the more competent readers who finish all the lessons in the Reading Eggs program there is Reading Eggspress.

Please view the video below to learn more about the benefits of Reading Eggs and the find out how you and your child can navigate each part of the program.

Have a look at the ReadingEggspress video too!

I understand that some of you have already purchased Reading Eggs privately, however as the subscription is through the school, I would appreciate if you use the school login so I am able to keep track of each child in the class and pass this information onto your child's Year One teacher.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me.

From Miss Horrocks. 

New member to our PPH family.

Just wanted to say a big congratulations!! to the Bateman family on the arrival of a beautiful baby girl, Abby May. We are so excited Grace and Spencer have a new sister. 

We loved Grace's special news today and the beautiful photo of Abby. 

Hope we get a visit soon!!! 

:) Miss Horrocks 

Home readers

Hi PPH Parents, 

I'm so proud of how each child has progressed in their reading and the hard work they have all put in learning many of their sight words this semester. 

This week all home readers and library books will need to be returned ready for our librarian to scan them back in before the holidays. No more readers will be given out. This doesn't mean stop reading time all together. Please keep reading to your child or let them practise reading to you from books from the local library or stories online ( star fall.com and reading eggs). 

Please keep revising your child's sight words every night. The clear folder was sent home today. By now most of the children have their purple set of words. The following sets are what your child is expected to know or to be exposed to by the end of Pre-Primary. 

Set 0ne: 

at

and

it

on

in

Set Two:

I

a

from

this 

with 

Set Three: 

that

is

as

for 

his 

Set Four: 

to

be

he

of

was

Set Five: 

the

have

you

They

are

Extra words we use all the time in our daily writing, reading and speaking activities: 

look, see, my, here, mum, dad and went. 

Next blog will inform you about reading eggs which is an exciting online resource that your child can use now until the end of term,over the holidays and for Year One. 

Thank you for your support. I can't believe the children are nearly Year One's. 

:)Miss Horrocks 

Fire truck School Visit

On Friday the Local voleenter firefighters came to visit both
Pre-Primary classes. They did an excellent job showing us the ' big red truck' and telling us all about fire and rescue. The children were taught all about the equipment and their uses and important fire safety information. The Pre-Primaries even got to be little fire fighters and hold the 30 metre long hose. Phil, Mike and the team spoke very well and I was very proud of the children's listening manners and questioning skills. 

We are very lucky to have these firefighters in out community helping us stay safe. 

Thank you fire fighters for coming to visit us!

Love PPH and PPB. 

 

Star Citizen for term 4

Congratulations to Avalon Paterson for demonstrating the value of excellence this term. She received the star citizen award for the effort she puts into all her work. Well done Avie! 

Week 6 merit certificates

Congratulations to Lilly who received a merit certificate at Friday's Assembly. Laura was the only birthday girl in the school. Happy 6th birthday Laura! 

PPH would like to welcome the Jordan family to OLC and Haylee to our classroom. Haylee received a merit certificate for the beautiful way she is settling into PPH. 

New Fruit time Routine

NEW FRUIT TIME

5^th,November, 2015

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Starting in Week 5, Tuesday the 10^th of November, the Pre-Primaries are changing to lunch box recess. This is so the children can use their lunch boxes independently ready for Year One.

Please can you pack a piece of fruit everyday with an extra healthy snack for recess time in your child’s lunch box. We will not be needing a piece of shared fruit for the whole class anymore. If your child would like their fruit in slices can you please slice it at home.

It makes it easier for the children if their recess in placed in a different compartment of their lunch box or in a separate container.  This is so they don’t get confused between their lunch and recess.

We will still be sitting the children in fruit groups so we don’t lose this important opportunity for oral language and social development.

We still require parent help in the mornings to help with our morning literacy and numeracy program. 

Thank you for your support.

PPH and PPB.