What a busy term we have had in Prep/1! It’s hard to believe we are halfway through the year. We have:

• begun the term with Mrs Miffy while Ms Bec returned from Indonesia,
• completed our PAT and DIBELS testing,
• run the Cross Country,
• learnt to collect, represent and read data, covered part-part-whole, explored teen numbers or numbers to 120, made patterns and extended them, practised working with worded problems, worked on addition number sentences,
• done our daily UFLI lessons, practised our handwriting, blended and segmented sounds to read and write words, learnt to write sentences or improve them, practiced our reading fluency,
• done a term of science with Mrs Stagg,
• created amazing art with Tom,
• moved our bodies and learnt new skills in P.E,
• welcomed Eva to our class,
• gone on excursion to the museum,
• explored families and how they are the same, different and have changed over time, created our family trees,
• played in our post office,
• enjoyed Mrs Jones’ weekly chosen story and library sessions,

And much much more! The second half of the year will allow us to solidify our learnings and give us more opportunities to explore, question and wonder about the world around us.

The most recent thing we explored and wondered about was a typewriter that Eva bought in for us to have a go with. This highlighted the fact that typing in itself is a skill, and we need to learn how to do it. We opened up notes on the iPads and practised writing our names and a sentence about ourselves. Typing will become one of our regular tasks in class so we can take steps towards using technology as a tool.