Category: Pre-Primary Blue

PP’s Week 9!

September 21, 2020
Laura Bombardieri
· Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue · Pre-Primary Gold

Again we have had another super busy, fun and exciting week in PP!

We have been very busy practicing for our PP assembly for next week. We cant wait to show you all our our hard work in our amazing performance! We have also been busy preparing all of our work for the Virtual Open Night next week! We are excited to share this with you so that you can see all of the learning we have been up to this term. Please take this opportunity to look at the virtual open night with your child and allow for them to guided you through all of the different things in the classroom.

The Three Billy Goat Gruff!

We are sure that you have heard about this incredible models we have made by now! We have spent the whole term slowly building different parts from the story using different materials. We have carefully planned out this process and taken our time to perfect our models. We are excited to take these home to share them with you. Check out our seesaw for photo and video updates.

Pen Pals

We have been reaching out to schools in different states to create pen pals! We have been writing letters to work on our writing skills and communicate with kids our age in different schools. PPG has just sent their first letters out to our new Pen Pals in the ACT! We are super excited and cant wait to get our first reply. PPB have been writing to their Pen Pals over the last two terms from NSW. What a super fun way to learn and work on our writing!

Thanks for checking out our blog this week! Stay posted for more fun and exciting news!

Love from the PP’s! 🙂

PP to Year 1 in 2021 Uniform Fittings

September 17, 2020
Stuart Munro
· Messages · Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue · Pre-Primary Gold · Uniform Shop

Dear Pre-Primary Parents

Please read below for information regarding uniform fittings for Pre-Primary children starting in Year 1 in 2021.

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Pre-Primary Week 8

September 11, 2020
Tracey Poinen
· Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue · Pre-Primary Gold

Term 3 – Week 8 – 11th September 2020

This week in Maths…

NUMBER LINES

We have been learning about number lines. We created a number line starting from number one all the way up to number 20. The children were each given a random number between 1 and 20. They then had to listen carefully and only approach the number line to peg up their number if it was BETWEEN a certain amount. For example, all the children who had a number BETWEEN 15 and 20 were asked to come up and place their number where they thought it should be on the line. Then all the children who had numbers BETWEEN 5 and 10 were chosen to come up next and place their numbers on the line. It was great to see the children understanding the term “between” and problem solving with each other to work out where the numbers should sit and who needed to leave a space for those who had the numbers that came before and after theirs. We then worked on this in smaller groups, during our maths rotations. Once we all understood the order and sequence of number in the number line, up to 20 we extended our number line and knowledge further – up to 30! It was a lot of fun and a team effort!

SHAKE & SPILL

We have been learning about part-part-whole through the game “shake and spill.” We started with 6 counters in total (this is the whole). We placed the counters in a container then shook it up and spilled it on the mat to reveal how many yellow came face up and how many red came face up (the two separate parts: yellow and red) make the whole. We took turns at shaking and spilling then representing the parts that make up 6. We represented our learning through numerals and pictures.

SHAPES & NUMBERS

We have been learning about 3D shapes and have been using various materials like play dough, coloured sticks and blu tak to recreate some 3D shapes. We have been focussing on number formation through painting and writing numbers.

THINK BOARDS

We have been using think boards to work on our problem solving with addition. Think boards help us to visualise and use concrete materials to work out our thinking. We are getting so good!

Keep on counting, exploring numbers in the environment and when you are out and about! Keep singing lots of counting songs and rhymes! Keep exploring Mathletics at home! Keep having fun with NUMBERS!

Have a great weekend everyone! Love the PP Team!

PP’s Hospital Incursion!

September 5, 2020
Laura Bombardieri
· Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue · Pre-Primary Gold · Uncategorized

PP’S HOSPITAL INCURSION!

This week in Pre Primary we had a hospital incursion! We learnt so much about hospital! Some of us said that we felt a bit scared about going to the hospital…but after learning all these cool things and seeing what happens inside the hospital we now know that its really not a scary place but a wonderful place where there are lots of people helping kids to feel better again!

We really enjoyed our wonderful visit from the Association for the Welfare of Children’s Hospital. We were able to learn about medical equipment and different aspects of hospitalisation in the safe and familiar environment of the classroom.

We had lots of fun and were able to ask loads of questions! Did you know the children’s hospital in Perth has a playground on the roof!

The Hospital Incursion Program designed to prepare young healthy children for possible hospitalisation or visits to the doctor or dentist. The aim is to minimise anxiety, fear and misconceptions children may have about medical intervention. We think this really helped and a lot of the PP’s wanted to go to the hospital and see all of these cool thing. We were also able to share our own stories about going to the hospital and how brave we have been if we had to get a needle! If we take some deep breaths and hold mum or dads hand we’ll be fine!

What a great day! We cant wait to take all of these new things that we have learnt back to our role play hospitals in the classroom!

Bye for now! Love PPG & PPB!

Pre-Primary Week Six!

August 29, 2020
Tracey Poinen
· Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue · Pre-Primary Gold

28th August, 2020 – Term 3, Week 6

What a busy and fun week we have had!

We have begun preparing for our very first assembly by practicing our songs and readings and brushing up on our acting skills! We also have to listen so carefully so that we know when it’s time for our part! Speaking, listening and drama are important areas of literacy which also help us with confidence and social skills too!

We have also been working on some secret Father’s Day business…Shhh! Mums know (because we needed their help!) But don’t tell dad…yet! No photos yet…it has to be a SURPRISE!

We have been using decodable texts during our guided and independent reading lessons and we are so proud of what amazing readers our children are developing into! They are doing such a great job at decoding, segmenting and blending CVC words as well as recognising and recalling the sight words that we have been focussing on. Reading for meaning is also very important so please keep using our “Read to Me” Packs at home, mum and dad, to enjoy literature and ask good comprehension questions whilst reading aloud.

We have been learning more about shapes, especially 3D shapes and telling the time to the hour on an analogue clock! We made our own class clock and have been using this to read and make o’clock times.

The St. Emilie’s Medical Centre (our new dramatic play space) has been an extremely busy venue this week! Our receptionist has been inundated with phone calls and appointment bookings! We have had to limit the amount of patients entering our facility, due to COVID restrictions (of course!) and social distancing requirements. Our medical staff are overworked, but still doing an amazing job, tending to broken arms and legs as well as sore tummies and headaches! It’s so much fun role playing and learning about our community helpers at the same time!

We are very much looking forward to our HOSPITAL INCURSION next Wednesday! This will be run by ACHWA – Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospitals WA. The children will be learning all about what happens in hospitals if they ever need to attend one, along with the important roles that doctors and nurses play in our communities. There will be content covered about COVID and the need for medical staff to wear masks. The children will also be engaged in many hands on learning actives on the day, including role play!

PAINTING and PLAY are always part of our days in Pre-Primary too!

PP UPDATE!

August 13, 2020
Laura Bombardieri
· Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue · Pre-Primary Gold

Another busy and exciting week here in PP!

We had a wonderful surprise farm animal incursion! We loved seeing real animals up close! Farmer Chris and Farmer Rob also let us pat the animals and we even got to feed them! There was an alpacka, bunny rabbits, goats, lambs, chickens and ducks!

b and d

It is confusing learning the difference between b and d! We have been practicing this little trick to help us remember… You can try this at home too to help us tell the difference between b and d. First make two thumbs up, pretend that you are making the word ‘bed’ with your thumbs. The first thumb on the left is the ‘b’ imagine an ‘e’ in the middle and the last thumb on the right is the ‘d’! This is how you can tell which way the letter goes to make sure you can tell the difference between the b and d! Have a look at the picture below!

Another great week in PP filled with lots of smiles, laughter and learning! We are all super excited for the school disco tomorrow! Have a great weekend!

Pre-Primary Week 3

August 7, 2020
Tracey Poinen
· Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue · Pre-Primary Gold

Term 3 – Week 3 – 7th August, 2020

Literacy Learning

This week the children have been engaged in writing activities and have been having fun playing sight word games! We are getting so good at sounding out and decoding words. The more we practice, the better we get. Practicing our CVC and sight words helps us with reading fluency, spelling and writing development.

Ms Zezan, our Pre-Service Teacher from Murdoch University has been teaching the children to identify the characters and setting in various texts. We have enjoyed reading “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” and “The Very Cranky Bear.” The children loved dressing up and role playing, taking on the persona of different characters while investigating different settings that may be found in texts. We wrote a book review about “The Very Cranky Bear” and drew pictures of the characters from, “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.”

Mathematics Learning

During our maths lessons we have been learning about “one more” and “one less.” Playing card games to figure out what one more or one less makes is a fun way to practice this skill. We have also really been working hard to achieve our backwards counting from 20 to 0. “Danny the dinosaur” came to visit to help us practice this skill. We have also been learning about symbols in maths and are using Australian money as an example of mathematical symbols. We examined coins and notes. We looked at the symbols on these, created some lovely coin rubbings and are using Australian money in our dramatic play space – “Market Blue.”

Learning through PLAY!

We are always learning through play in Pre-Primary!

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PLAY IS CHILDREN’S WORK!

Stay tuned for more Pre-Primary adventures next week!

Love from the Pre-Primary Team and children!

PP’s 100 Days of Learning!

July 31, 2020
Laura Bombardieri
· Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue · Pre-Primary Gold

100 days! Woohoo!

We are so excited that we have reached 100 days of learning today! What a wonderful job the Pre Primary children have done – they have reached a great milestone and can be very proud of themselves! There has been lots of hard work and learning, in school and at home, over the last 100 days!

Today we are busy with 100 celebration activities all day! Thank you for supporting us with 100 party foods and helping your child to dress up in their costumes! They look incredible! Here are some fabulous pictures of our 100 year old PP’s!

We have been counting different objects that are 100, building with 100 different items, getting our bodies moving in 100 different way and writing all about what we would do with 100 dollars!

Well done Pre Primary Gold and Blue!

You are superstars!

Pre-Primary Welcome to Term Three!

July 20, 2020
Tracey Poinen
· Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue · Pre-Primary Gold

20th July 2020

Welcome to Term Three!

Please read through our Programme Information for this term below.

We look forward to an exciting term ahead!

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Please also find some information that we hope will support you to continue to nurture your child’s faith:

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Pre-Primary – Week 9

June 26, 2020
Tracey Poinen
· Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue · Pre-Primary Gold

Week 9 – Term 2 – 26th June 2020

Crazy Hair Day!

We enjoyed getting ready and planning our designs and creations for CRAZY hair and SOCK Day! We discussed why we were collecting money for Lifelink and how this will help others in need. Check it out:

PMP – Perceptual Motor Programme

This term, the children have been engaged in PMP and as time has progressed, we can see how they have improved with their gross motor, hand and eye coordination, balance, climbing and risk taking skills! They were super fast going over and through the obstacle course today, which shows that their confidence and ability has grown! PMP is also great fun and promotes a healthy, active life stye!

Our Changing World

We have also been learning about the past and the present. This week we loved grooving along to some vinyls on a record player! We looked at some items from the past and compared them to the same items we use today…so much has changed!

It would be so interesting to have a chat with your grandparents or even your great grandparents to discover more changes in our world throughout the years!

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