Week 2

What an exciting start to the term we are having. There are lots of special events happening. Please take care to read all student notes to ensure you stay informed.

 

Dancing Lessons

Dancing Lessons are underway, and we are enjoying learning the steps to some fun routines. We look forward to showing off our moves at the end of year Dance Party in Week 10.

 

Assembly Items

Blue Group Assembly Item – Thursday 26 November.

 

Literacy

Last week we learnt the sound Vv as in volcano and vet. We have been exploring volcanoes, including making them and seeing them erupt in our sandpits!

We have been applying our letter sound and sight word knowledge to read simple sentences and texts.

A focus for Term 4 is blending and segmenting CVC words. CVC words are three letter words that comprise of a consonant, a vowel and another consonant, e.g. pig, man, zip.

Blending: This skill involves blending sounds together to pronounce a word e.g. s u n … sun

Segmenting: This skill involves listening carefully to the word and identifying the sounds that you can hear e.g. sun … s u n

 

Numeracy

We continue to work with teen numbers. Last week we learnt about the number 17. We continue to develop our counting skills by practising one-to-one correspondence (touching each object as we count) and learning that the arrangement does not affect the count.

 

HASS (History and Social Sciences)

This term we are learning about family celebrations. We have been asking children to name a special event that their family celebrates and tell us how they celebrate it. Special events could include religious festivals, family reunions, birthdays, community events etc.

 

Homework Folders

We will continue to send home readers, on a rotation through our Kindy classes. Please ensure that homework folders are returned on your child’s Kindy day.

 

Thank you for your support with our learning program.

Week 1 Photos have now been added to the Week 1 blog post.

Week 2 Photos 

Welcome to Term 4!

We hope that you have all had a wonderful school holiday and we welcome you to the start of another busy term! We are delighted with all that the children have achieved so far and look forward to watching them progress even further this term! Week 1 is done and was jam packed! The children enjoyed their first dance lessons and had a blast at the carnival. Results are in and Red Faction were the winners on 2489 points, Purple was 2nd on 2332, Blue was 3rd on 2245, and Orange came 4th on 2062. 

 

In Literacy, we will be reviewing all of the sounds covered last term (G, O, L, F, U, B, W) and the new sound for Week 1 was Jj for jelly. The new sight word for this week was go…I like to go to school. We are learning to blend 3 letter words C-A-T, cat. We will continue to practise identifying rhyming words and counting syllables in words using our bodies (head=1, shoulders=2, stomach=3, knees=4).

 

In Numeracy, we focused on the number 16. Children practised counting to 16, writing the number 16, and using one-to-one correspondence to count up to 16 items. We will also be revising numbers 1-15, position language and simple patterns.

 

In Science, we started learning about living and non-living. Living things need air, they move, grow and reproduce. In Health, we are learning about Protective Behaviours. We will be teaching children to develop personal safety skills, such as saying “no” and having the right to feel safe at all times.

 

A few key reminders for Term 4:

·      Kindy Blue have their Assembly item on Thurs 26^th Nov (Week 7).

·      Dance Parties and Book Awards in Week 10.

·      Please keep checking the blog regularly, as we will continue to use the blog as a platform to post photos, reminders, and updates on what children are learning at school each week.

·      Please continue to work with your child at home to practise concepts taught at school, and most importantly have fun while you do this! – Studyladder is a great way to help your child revise concepts at home and new activities will be added to Studyladder each week.

 

As always, please contact me if you have any questions or concerns. We look forward to another amazing, final term ahead!

 

Week 1 Photos

Happy Holidays

We hope that you are all enjoying the school holidays! 

 

Updates for Term 4:

• New activities have been uploaded to StudyLadder. 
• Term 4 will commence on Monday 12th October.
• The Tabloid Sports Carnival will take place on Wednesday 14th October.
• Dance lessons will commence Monday of Week 1.

 

We can’t wait to see you all back at school ready for dance lessons on Monday and dressed in your faction colours on Wednesday, ready for the Tabloid Sports Carnival!