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Category: Kindy

Term Four Week Three Kindy Blue

  • October 29, 2014
  • fleming.julieanne
  • · Kindy Blue

We finished growing our Snowflake crystals and hung them in a tree in our “Frozen Ice Palace”. They certainly look different now to the powder, water and pipe cleaners that we began with!

Our explorations of the “Frozen” story have led us into sharing and playing with Fairy Tales. We read the story of “The Princess and the Pea” and played a maths game on this theme. We had to read the dice, move the Princess on the game board and then add or take away the bedding on her super high bed! All the bedding had to pile up and balance with a pea on the bottom-tricky!

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The Fairy Tale “The Frog Prince” was popular at our re telling table as the story tellers moved the props to develop the story line.

Our Kindy boys really enjoyed the Fairy Tale “Hector and the Big Brave Knight”. They particularly enjoyed Granny’s justice when she taught the Big Bad Knight a lesson for stealing her magic wand- he had to scoop up Dragon poop and load it in a wagon! The Big Bad Knight did NOT live Happily Ever After with this chore!

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We wondered how God could make so many kinds of cute, scary, tiny, colourful and different insects. We made observational drawings of them as we learned about insect body parts and habitats. We are keeping a sharp lookout for all kinds of insects!

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Our Silk worms have been busy weaving their cocoons ready for their next stage in development. Some of us think the silk looks like spider web!

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The lego factory workers have been busy with their Lego bricks making, continuing and reading the patterns for a maths patterning activity.

 

Term Four Week One

  • October 17, 2014
  • fleming.julieanne
  • · Kindy Blue

“FROZEN” has made its way into Kindy this term, along with “The Lego Factory”.

Both of these areas grew from the children’s special interests and has had them fully engaged since our doors opened!

“Frozen” land has been visited by many beautiful Princesses and there have been sightings of Kristoff too!

Our sensory bins have been in constant use as the items are sorted and used for story telling.

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The Lego Factory workers have been flat out making and testing construction designs.

Work safe habits have been employed with the wearing of safety helmets while construction is carried out. The workers are a very agreeable lot, sharing materials, ideas and work spaces happliy!

We started some Chemical Science investigations with mixing ingredients to make “Snow” and to grow snowflake crystals.

We hypothesised about the changes in the ingredients and shared our ideas on what we had observed.

Our ice cutters have been very busy chipping away at huge blocks of ice with hammers, making sure their eyes are protected with safety goggles. Kristoff may be interested in hiring some of these hard workers!

We are very fortunate to have Silk Worms to look after this term as part of our Religious Education unit on “Creepy Crawlies”.

Stay tuned to find out how they grow and change!

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Week 1 Term 4, Kindy Gold

  • October 17, 2014
  • Tracey Poinen
  • · Kindy Gold

What a great start to the Term we have had with this glorious warm weather!  Although the temperatures were soaring outside, we kept cool inside with our “Frozen” interest based theme!  We had wet, cold fun chiseling, hammering and carving through large ice blocks, just as the Ice cutters in “Frozen” had done.  We viewed a clip and some awesome photos on the big screen of Ice Sculptures!  We discussed the art of Ice Sculpting and compared the tools used by an Ice sculptor to that of a painter.

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Olaf found his way to our play dough table and the children enjoyed recreating different versions of him, adding carrot noses, eyes, twig arms and stones for his buttons.  What do you think?

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The last of our veggies were ripe and ready for the picking this week.  So, we harvested our broad beans and what a bountiful crop we received! There were interesting discussions about what we could cook with our beans and although Mrs Poinen wanted to take them all home for her dinner, we agreed that we would like to taste Mrs Curulli’s famous broad bean pasta…YUMMY!

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K-Yr 6 Crunch and Sip Poster Competition – due 3rd October

  • September 15, 2014
  • Tania Thuijs
  • · Kindy · Messages · Year 1 · Year 2 · Year 3 · Year 4 · Year 5 · Year 6

Crunch and Sip Poster Competition

Weeks 7 and 8 Term 3

  • September 11, 2014
  • fleming.julieanne
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue

We were so lucky to have the “Bees Neez” Apiarists visit Kindy for Science Week!

We learned how bee hives work and how Apiarists collect honey from their bees.

The taste testing was so yummy and we dressed in beekeepers suits!

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Kindy has been a hive of activity with investigations into bees, their homes and habits, along with pollination and the importance of bees to our food production.

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The Science Expo will see the fruits of our learning on show to share with our families! Looking forward to seeing you there!

Busy Bees in Kindy Gold – Week 6 Term 3

  • August 29, 2014
  • Tracey Poinen
  • · Kindy · Kindy Gold

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Excitement filled the air when we dressed up as our favourite book characters last week. We celebrated Book Week with our Kindy Blue friends and our Year 3 Buddies.  We enjoyed reading together, sharing and discussing our favourite characters and books. Time well spent!

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More excitement followed, as the grand opening of our NEW Kindy Sensory Garden was unveiled.  The children could not wait to explore their new environment!  Many happy faces, creative games and valuable conversations have since been occurring in our beautiful play space. We are very lucky indeed!

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Last Friday saw the conclusion of our Science Inquiry Topic and our class “mystery” was finally solved!     The children had so much fun at the Teddy Bear’s Picnic in the bush!  The honey joys we cooked were delicious too!  We spent some time investigating the native flora in our bushland.  We discovered native orchids, kangaroo paws and we admired the wattles.  We snapped up a number of photographs  and examined these further when we returned to class.  What do you think of the native orchids?

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In case you haven’t yet heard, our class supermarket is now closed for business and we welcome in its place our NEW Florist and Apiary.  The florist has been buzzing with activity as the children prepared bouquets and baskets for a wedding in the dramatic play space this week!

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If you so happen to notice the sweet scents and glowing skin of our Kindy Gold children, it’s because we made some beautiful homemade Honey & Oatmeal soaps!  The experience was fun and interesting.   We will share the process and products with you at our up and coming Science Expo!

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Weeks 5 & 6 Term 3

  • August 27, 2014
  • fleming.julieanne
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue

Early in Term 1 we planted some vegetables in our kindy garden and our Beetroot has ripened and is ready to harvest! With the magic of kitchen chemistry we turned them into Chocolate and Beetroot muffins! YUMMY! Image - 7 Aug 2014 09.11.30 Image - 7 Aug 2014 10.09.21 Image - 7 Aug 2014 12.19.57 A big thank you goes to Mr Cogger for building our fabulous nature play space which opened this week. It’s a great place to load up the trucks with gravel and have loads of fun! Image - 25 Aug 2014 10.31.24 Image - 26 Aug 2014 12.07.55 We have begun our investigation into Bees, Pollination and Food Production and we found some bees buzzing around the lavender in our new garden! Image - 25 Aug 2014 18.22.13   This was very timely as we are drawing bees to learn about their body parts and habits. Nothing like the real thing! Image - 26 Aug 2014 09.40.32   Things were a-buzz at kindy with the opening of “The Honey Pot Cafe”. Many satisfied customers enjoyed delicious honey based treats from the menu.The staff were very attentive when taking orders and managed the till very well! Image - 26 Aug 2014 11.50.37 Image - 26 Aug 2014 09.40.07 Image - 25 Aug 2014 09.45.30 We had a fun time dressing up for Book Week and sharing our favourite books with our Year Three Buddies. Thank you to all the great efforts by our families to help put together our fantastic costumes! IMG_1628 IMG_1627 We have also been busy bees with Secret Children’s Business as Father’s Day draws near. Stay tuned for surprises!!! Image - 18 Aug 2014 12.03.43

Kindy Sensory Garden Area – whoo hoo!

  • August 21, 2014
  • Tania Thuijs
  • · From the Principal · Kindy · Parents & Friends

Image 2 Image 3Sensory play has many learning and developmental benefits, and is also great fun! Sensory play includes any activity that stimulates a young child’s senses: touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing. Sensory activities and sensory areas facilitate exploration and naturally encourage children to use scientific processes while they play, create, investigate and explore. Spending time stimulating their senses helps children develop cognitively, linguistically, socially and emotionally, physically and creatively.

Here a couple of pics of the first half of our new sensory garden in the Kindy area. Glenn has done a really wonderful job creating this space (in between maintaining our school grounds) over the last number of weeks … his talent, skill and work ethic are helping to bring children and staff ideas to life! The next stage is to work towards creating a small mud pit and building a platform…:)

We are also hoping to get some shade sails over part of the area when the budget allows. A huge thank you to the Board and P&F for their ongoing support of these capital outlays that make a significant difference to the learning and well-being of our early years learners!

Sensory Play ideas 

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Parent Article – Developing Sensory Play

 

 

 

Reading to your Child

  • August 18, 2014
  • Tania Thuijs
  • · Curriculum News · Kindy · Parent Resources · Pre-Primary · Year 1 · Year 2 · Year 3

Click here for some important parent tips for encouraging children in the Early Years to read:

READING TO YOUR CHILD

Week 4 Term 3

  • August 16, 2014
  • Tracey Poinen
  • · Kindy Gold

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We have been very fortunate in Kindy Gold to have received some tadpoles from one of our families.  The children have demonstrated wonder, awe and curiosity, whilst exploring and learning about these little mysterious creatures.  We have recently seen one of our tadpoles change into a frog!  On our Apple TV we listened to and learnt a song called “The Tadpole Blues” by Peter Combe.  Here is the link if you would like to hear this song:

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We have been observing and examining our hyacinth bulb for a couple of months now and we have been rewarded for our patience, as it is finally blooming!  It smells divine!  It started its life with us as a single bulb, then we observed its growth with small roots spurting under the bulb.  The roots slowly grew and entwined themselves around the bottom of the jar, creating an amazing underwater scene.  Our anticipation of the next stage made us regular spectators of the jar. Then we observed the growth of a tiny green shoot.  The shoot grew taller and taller and finally….the beautiful flowers blossomed.   Through this simple experiment, the children learned about the root system of plants, parts of a plant, caring for living things and that living things including plants, require time and most importantly love to grow!

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In maths we measured the length of our footprints and that of our mystery visitor’s footprint too!  We discussed and compared whose print was longer and shorter.  A number of children took the opportunity to explore colour patterns.  We did some sorting, grouping, tallying and counting as we conducted a survey of the types and colours of hair of children in Kindy Gold.  It was an interesting exercise as we physically moved around the room and grouped ourselves according to hair colour.

Did you know that we have a ‘lost Teddy’ in our classroom?  The children decided to create a poster to see if others in our community could help to identify the Teddy bear’s owner.  Together, we discussed and decided on what information would be best to include in the poster.  With basic shapes as a guide, the children set about drawing the ‘lost teddy’ as accurately as they could, following the traits that were carefully described by the class. Some of the posters are up on our windows.

Do you know who this bear belongs to?

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“Where Does It Come From?”  Our conversations continue into where our food comes from and how it is grown and produced.  This interactive game on our whiteboard, provides children with the opportunity to consolidate their learning by matching the corresponding food items to their original provider.  For example, the producer may be a cow and the children have to determine which produce originates from this animal.

Last Friday afternoon, following our library session, we seized the moment and wandered across to the Pre-Primary bush area to enjoy the beauty and nature of the gorgeous yellow wattle tree.  There was also another purpose for our visit.   Amongst the wattle tree were some amazing and intricate little creatures, buzzing about busily.  Yes, there were bees!  We have begun our topic on bees and honey! The children soaked up the sunshine whilst observing the bees in action.  We watched from a safe distance as the busy bees worked hard to collect their nectar and pollen.  It was a good first hand experience that will provide a foundation for further learning on this topic throughout the term.

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Check out our latest group project: Our ‘papier mache’ surprise object.  It was so much messy fun as we began to layer it with newspaper and thick, squishy glue.  What a great sensory activity! Can you guess what it is we are constructing?

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