Please find below some different literacy and numeracy activities. Please note that these activities are optional and are consolidating activities that our Little Leaders complete in class.
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What else can I do to help at home?
Lots of talking, listening and playing games
Sing songs and nursery rhymes, teach tongue twisters and poems
Tell stories, play board games and card games
Reduce screen time
Point out and talk about words and sounds in your child’s environment – play “I Spy” on the way to school, point out words on street signs, clap along to the beat while listening to music in the car
Talk about interesting words to develop vocabulary
Write our Tricky Words on Sticky Notes around the house
Play hopscotch using our Tricky Words
Writing words with chalk and/or water
Reading at Home
Reading is an integral part of a student's education and the Early Years set the foundations for future success. Parental involvement plays a crucial role in assisting our students to become confident and fluent readers.
The entire Early Years team has been hard at work creating resources to assist with home reading.
In your child's home learning folder you will find an overview of the science behind how we teach reading. Please also take the time to listen to the video attached modeling how to read through a "Decodable Reader" with your child/children.
As well as a decodable reader, your child will be sent home with a Reading Diary containing some other activities that you might like to do at home.
Below are the letters and sounds that we have learnt so far. When discussing the letters and sounds, it is important for beginning readers to understand the difference between the letter name and the sound it makes.
The letter is ________. The sound is _________.
Vowel Letters:
In Prep we are learning about 5 special letters that are called VOWELS.
VOWELS are special because every word that we read or write has to have a vowel letter.
In Year 1, we learn about the long sound vowel letters can make and that the letter y sometimes acts like a vowel.
Diagraph: A digraph is when two letters join together to make one sound.
tricky Words
Tricky words are high-frequency words that are spelled using uncommon or irregular letter-sound correspondences (i.e. words that cannot be sounded out using the regular letter-sound correspondences that have been taught, e.g. ‘said’, ‘was’.).
This Term in Math we will be recognising, naming and describing Shape. We have also been identifying and writing our numbers to and from 20.
Hand Writing: Letter Formation
When we introduce a new letter to our Preps, we also spend time focussing on how we form that letter.
At Joseph's we use the Casey Caterpillar story and language to form our letters. After reading the story, watch the videos linked to reinforce the language that we use in class.
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All trains have an engine. They drive the train. No engine, no train. In a sentence, the ENGINE is the SUBJECT (who or what) of a sentence.
A train also has carriages. That's where the rest of the sentence goes.
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If the Subject of the sentence was a bird. A bird would sit in the engine.
Then you say something about the bird. sat in a tree. This would sit in the engine.
It is also important to remember that a sentence needs punctuation. In Prep we will begin by learning about ending a sentence with a Full Stop.
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