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.