English

The first term of Prep is all about engaging students in the wonderful world of literacy. Students will be focussing on: oral language development, phonemic awareness skills, speech sounds, name writing, rhyming words, memory, blending and segmenting words, exposure to familiar words – reading and writing, decodable reading, handwriting through Casey the Caterpillar, involvement with quality literature and learning the concepts of print (left to right, use of pictures, top to bottom).

Students will be assessed on their ability to identify connections between texts and their personal experience, the ability to use appropriate interaction skills to listen and respond to others in a familiar environment. Students will understand that their texts can reflect their own experiences and they will attempt to identify and describe likes and dislikes about familiar texts, objects, characters, and events.

Mathematics

Throughout term one in Mathematics, students will sort and classify objects according to size, shape and colour. They will connect and sequence numbers and explore repeating patterns.

Students will be assessed on their ability to sort and group shapes by colour, size and shape.

Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)

Students will examine personal growth and development, families, relationships, rules and how we fit in to the community. Students will explore familiar places and how to care for them.

Students will be assessed on their ability to relate stories about their past. Students will share and compare observations about familiar places.

Science

Students will use their five senses to observe the weather. They will learn that we can record our observations of the weather by using symbols and drawings. Students will explore the daily and seasonal changes in the local environment and understand that weather conditions are not the same for everyone in all places of the world.

Students will be assessed on how the weather affects them and those around them.

The Arts:

Students will participate in visual art and will explore colours, lines, shapes and textures through different mediums.

Technologies:

Students will explore a variety of design and digital technologies through the term.

Music with Mrs Murray: amurr51@eq.edu.au

Students explore rhymes and songs as stimulus for music making and will explore foundational musical skills including music opposites (high/low, fast/slow, loud/soft).

Will be assessed on:

(a) Demonstrating a steady beat.

(b) Demonstrating their ability to match pitch

Health with Mrs Stirling:  sstir16@eq.edu.au

Students will learn to identify and describe different emotions by recognising facial expressions and body language. They will explore the connections between feelings, body reactions, and non-verbal cues.

Assessment will focus on students' ability to interpret facial expressions and body language, and explain how feelings, body reactions, and non-verbal cues are connected.

PE with Mr Brady: lbrad101@eq.edu.au

Prep: Different to previous years where Prep students would spend the first month doing water familiarisation lessons through water play, on the oval, this year we will be doing these lessons at the pool. This will help students to familiarise themselves a lot quicker with the processes we have at the pool. Water familiarisation lessons will include how to safely enter and exit shallow water using methods suitable for the water location. Submerge the body completely underwater and breathe out – blow bubbles. Finally, be able to propel their body continuously for 5 metres.

Assessment: Demonstrate safe entry and exit skills and be able to swim for 5 continuous metres.