Happy Holidays

We would like to wish everyone a safe and happy holidays! 

Just a friendly reminder that Term 4 will commence on Monday 12 October for Blue Group and Tuesday 13 October for Red Group.

We can’t wait to see you all back at school ready for dancing lessons in week one and also dressed in your faction colours on the first Wednesday, ready for the Tabloid Sports Carnival. 

Week Nine

It’s hard to believe that we are in the middle of Week Nine. We have continued to explore our Term 3 Theme of Commotion in the Ocean. News telling, ocean crafts and science activities have been a highlight over the past week. 

Literacy

This week we are learning the phonic sound Uu as in umbrella and under. 

To celebrate the Uu phonic sound we have recently opened an ‘Under the Sea’ play area. Children have been using literacy and numeracy skills to label items, count items, identify starting sounds of sea creatures and identify how many syllables are in the sea creature’s names. We are very proud of the children for displaying excellent social skills in the sociodramatic play area such as sharing, cooperation and good communication skills. We are also doing an amazing job of tidying up when it is time to change activities.

We are now starting to learn about the beginning, middle and end sound in words. For example, the end sound in cat is t. This is a tricky concept, with students needing to listen carefully to all the sounds in the word. This skill can be practised at home using short three letter words, e.g. cat, man, log.

Our new sight word is here. We are reading and writing sentences with our sight words. For example, Here is the cat. 

Please continue to revise sounds and sight words with your child each day. Regular practice supports your child to retain these concepts.

Phonics sounds learnt so far this term: Ll, Bb, Gg, Ff, Ww, Oo and Uu.

Sight words learnt so far this term: it, is, in, the, see, we, like and here.

Numeracy

This week we continue to practise the skills of counting (forwards, backwards, from a different starting point and with real life objects). We are developing the children’s understanding of a number line by playing missing number and number sequencing puzzles and games.

Study Ladder

Congratulations to all the children who are achieving amazing scores on Study Ladder. Each week in Kindy, we recognise the high scores they are achieving. Thank you for your continued support at home.

Homework Folders

Please remember to return your child’s Homework Folder on their Kindy day, so that we can continue to change over the readers. Any school notes or important notices will also be sent home in these folders.

 

 

Week Eight

The Kindy kids spent last week ‘secretly’ preparing for Fathers Day! The children did an amazing job making cards, keyrings, drawings and retelling facts about their Dads. They even wrote their own sentence for Dad. We hope all their ‘daddies’ felt the love they put into making their gifts and that they spent a great Sunday together. What wonderful memories to cherish of their first year at school.

On Friday, the Kindy children enjoyed being a part of the whole school, participating in the Faction March and the running races. Many thanks to the Blue Group parents who brought their children to school to take part in their flat race. It was an overwhelming day for some and very exciting for others, but a fun day was had by all!

K/PP Tabloid Afternoon – Due to a number of whole school events occurring during the reminder of the term. This event is now scheduled for Wednesday, 14 October 2020. More details to follow.

Literacy 

This week we will be focusing on the initial letter sound Oo i.e. octopus starts with Oo, Oo, Oo and octagon starts with Oo, Oo, Oo.  We will have an Optometrist Play corner open for the week, with an office to get the ‘best’ advice on eye care, eye charts for testing sight, glasses, writing appointments and scripts and much more to stimulate the children’s imagination and social skills.

The children are also learning to read and write sentences using the sight words we have learnt and sounding out other words. The sight word for week 8 is like. An example of a sentence could be We like the c/a/t. When writing a sentence, we are learning to start with a capital letter, leave spaces between words and end with a full stop. It is important to encourage children to use the correct letter and number formations whenever they have a go at writing.

Counting syllables is a pre-reading skill and helps the process of decoding. The Kindies have been working on counting syllables and would enjoy showing off their skills. Try asking how many syllables are in a word of your choice and discover how clever they are! Below are some examples of syllables:

One syllable words: tree, fun, kite.

Two syllable words: hel/lo, run/ning, par/ty.

Three syllable words: el/e/phant, fan/tas/tic.

Four syllable word: hel/i/cop/ter.

Numeracy

We are continuing to reinforce our learning of numbers 1 to 15 i.e. identifying and writing numerals, making collections and counting in sequence. We are also learning how to put two numbers together by using the counting on technique i.e. 5 and 3 = put 5 in my head and count on 3 – 6, 7, 8. The answer is 8. We will also be linking ordinal numbers to our experience of participating in the races during the Sport Carnival last week. 

Reminder

Class and individual photos will be taken on Friday Sept. 11^th for the Kindy Red Groups.

Finally, the teachers would like to mention how very proud they are of all their Kindergarten children. They worked very hard and participated with enthusiasm through an extremely busy week. Super effort!

 

Week Seven

This week Wattle Grove Primary School celebrated Wattle Day. Wattle Day is about everyone coming together to celebrate the unique diversity of the Australian population and recognising what it means to be Australian. We celebrated Wattle Day with a beautiful outdoor picnic and drawing/painting wattle.

Literacy

The phonic sound that we are focusing on this week is Ww as in wattle, whale and watermelon. We have been pegging up washing on our clothes airer to strengthen our fine motor skills and making wattle crafts to honour Wattle Day. The children have also been very busy in our workshop where they have been using their communication skills, fine motor skills and creativity to build a range of things. They have been using a variety of tools and materials for their constructions and have been wearing hard hats for protection of course!

Numeracy

This week we are focusing on creating and interpreting pictorial graphs. We have been practising how to graph data and how to answer questions about data shown on a graph. We are still reviewing numbers 1-15, practising to count on from a given number and identifying ordinal numbers such as 1^st , 2^nd and 3^rd.

Sports Carnival

Although the Tabloid Sports for Kindy and Pre-Primary (Wednesday 2 September) has been postponed until further notice, we still hope to see you all at the Whole School Sports Carnival on Friday 4 September. As it is not a Kindy Blue Group day, Kindy Blue Group students will need to be signed in at the front office at 8:30am and then will need to be picked up at their classrooms at 9:30am. We look forward to seeing all of the children dressed in their faction colours for a fun day ahead!

School Photos

This week the Kindy Blue Groups will be having their school photos taken on Thursday 3 September (Week 7) and Kindy Red Group students will be having their school photos taken next week on Friday 11 September (Week 8).

Please ensure that your child is dressed in their full school uniform and that long hair is tied up. This should not be a problem as our Kindy students are always presented beautifully!

We hope you all have a wonderful week and we welcome you to ask us any questions that you might have.