Over the past few weeks the Preps have had lots of interesting learning experiences with special events at school and visitors from our school community. The Preps participated in their first Colour Run which was so exciting. They dressed up in orange or traditional clothing for Harmony Day and, they were visited by the local Burwood fire fighters who taught them about good and bad fires and the importance of having a safe meeting place.
This week the Preps were also treated to a presentation by the 2022 -2023 Australian Children’s Laureate author Gabrielle Wang, who also happens to be Harrison from Prep C’s grandmother. Gabrielle spoke to the children about how she writes books and taught them how to draw their very own dragon. What an exciting time it has been to be learning and playing in Prep!
Other learning experiences in Prep over the past two weeks have included:
- Hearing and generating rhyming words.
- Learning how to use an iPad safely with their Prep pal.
- Subitising numbers to 5. Subitising is being able to look at a group of items and know how many there are without counting.
- Learning the letters and sounds of our first set of phonemes/graphemes in the Sound Waves program and blending these together to read words.