What an Incredible Start to the Year in Prep!

We are thrilled to share that our Prep students have had an amazing start to the year! They are settling into their five-day school routine beautifully, and we are enjoying countless fun and engaging learning experiences together.

In the past two weeks, we have enthusiastically dived into our phonics lessons. We began by setting up our phoneme (speech sound) wall, discovering the differences between consonant and vowel phonemes, and learning how we use our mouth and voice to create them. This week, we excitedly learned our first two phoneme-grapheme (sound-letter) correspondences: /a/ and /m/.

Our favourite focus this term has been our rhyming investigations through the delightful stories “Where is Green Sheep” by Mem Fox and “Fox in Socks” by Dr. Seuss. We have discussed what we know about sheep and foxes, identified rhyming words in the stories, and created our own rhyming pairs. Additionally, we have combined this unit with fine motor skill-building through book themed crafts.

In Math, we have eagerly explored the number five and all the ways we can break up collections through songs and stories such as “Monkeys on the Bed” and “Ducks Away” by Mem Fox. Students have loved sharing their discoveries that 4 and 1 make 5, and 3 and 2 also make 5, through drawings and hands-on materials.

We are all incredibly excited about the new learning adventures that await us before the end of Term 1 and can't wait to continue sharing our journey with you!