English

In Term 3 English students will continue 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). They will explore the structure of a retell through familiar and personal stories.

Students will be assessed on their ability to create a short, spoken text to retell an experience and describe how it made them feel.

Mathematics

Prep students will explore concepts including more, less the same through data collection strategies. They will investigate combining and portioning numbers up to 10 using a variety of different methods and manipulatives including counters, 10 frames and natural resources.

Students will be assessed on their ability to ask questions, collect data and make simple inference as well as their ability to partition and combine numbers up to 10.  

Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)

In Term 3 HASS students will continue to examine personal growth and development, families, relationships, rules and how we fit into the community. Students will explore familiar events and celebrations throughout the world. They will ask and respond to questions about their own lives.

Students will be assessed on their ability to connect familiar events and celebrations to personal experiences.

Science

In Term 3 Science students will investigate materials and describe the properties and behaviour of familiar objects.

Students will be assessed on identifying materials and use materials to create an object for a familiar Fairy Tale character.

Technologies

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

Students will be assessed on their ability to design and create a solution to a real-life problem.

The Arts

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

Students will be assessed on their ability to design and create a solution to a real-life problem.

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

Prep Music Term 3

Students will move, sing, play games and use tuned and untuned percussion to demonstrate beat, rhythm and pitch. They will compose short rhythm patterns using Ta and Ti Ti.

Assessment:

• Keep the beat in time with a known song (walking the beat, pointing to a beat chart).
• Compose an eight beat “Colour composition” using Ta and Ti Ti

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

Students will identify and describe actions that support their health, safety, and physical activity across a range of settings.

Students will be assessed on their ability to demonstrate safe practices, protective behaviours, and healthy choices through role-plays, class discussions, and practical activities, showing an understanding of how these actions contribute to their overall wellbeing.

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

Practical: Students explore how to move and play safely during physical activity. They develop the fundamental movement skills of:

• Running
• Jumping
• Hopping
• Galloping

Assessment: The assessment will gather evidence of the student’s ability to:

• perform fundamental movement skills
• solve movement challenges
• demonstrate, with guidance, practices to keep themselves safe in different activities