7th June 2018
Kindy Pyjama DAY Celebration!
Isn’t this just the perfect weather for wearing our pyjamas? We cannot wait to wear our PYJAMAS to school and share breakfast with our friends!
Parent Helpers….if you are on ROSTER for this day, we would LOVE to see you in your PYJAMAS too!
Please read the note for further details!
SCIENCE
THE SUN CHANGES EVERYTHING!
The emphasis within this module is on the influence of the SUN’S energy on a child’s everyday life and how the SUN’S energy creates changes.
We have a class mascot called FREDA the frilled neck lizard, who introduces us to Reptiles and their need for the SUN’S light energy.
We have researched the REPTILE family and noted their characteristics and need for the SUN’S energy to hunt for food and escape from predators.
We are following a sequence of activities to investigate the power of the SUN.
We identified how we warm and cool our bodies, what we know about the SUN, SUN safe behaviours and conduct simple experiments to investigate how a range of familiar objects can change if left in sunlight.
Our reptile Park has been a very popular spot in Kindy as the lizards, snakes, turtles and crocodiles have adventures in the habitat we created for them.
Look out for all of this and our Observational Drawings Of Freda , along with other learning experiences at OPEN NIGHT Wednesday of Week 9 of term.
Hope to see you there!
31st January 2018
Dear Families,
Welcome to Term One!
Please download and carefully read through our Parent Information Booklet for 2018.
Thank you to all the Families that attended our Information Evening last night!
A WARM WELCOME TO ALL OUR FAMILIES FOR 2018!
We hope that families and children are just as excited, ready and hopeful, as we, your educators are, to begin this new journey together!
Please find below some wonderful videos, links and tips, to discuss and share with your child, in preparation for transition to Kindergarten.
To view this whole video and listen to the childrens’ reading of the text “Starting School” by Jane Godwin & Anna Walker, please use the following link:
https://storyboxlibrary.com.au/preview/
We are going to have a fantastic year ahead, creating beautiful memories, trying new adventures, having fun & learning!
On the First Day of Kindergarten don’t forget to bring:
* your family photo frame & baby photo (labelled with name on the back)
* your hat and SMALL 30x30cm pillow
*all booklist requirements
*water bottle, morning tea (fruit) and lunch
Families, please read the information that will be on our Message Board outside our classroom on Wednesday morning.
We can’t wait to get to know all the special children in Kindergarten…very soon!
Parent Information Evening – Wednesday 31st January 2018
Our Parent Information Evening will be held on the first day of school. It is important that one family member attend this meeting. You will receive more specific information pertaining to our Kindergarten classes and program as well as important whole school messages. Our Parent Information Booklet will be available soon for you to access via our website.
The structure of the evening is as follows:
5.45pm: Classroom Session 1 – Kindergarten Classrooms
6.15pm: Families move to the Hall
6.30pm: Hall Session – Whole School
7.15pm: Families move to Session 2
7.30pm: Session 2 – Kindergarten Classrooms
8.00pm: Conclusion
PLEASE NOTE: you are not required to attend both Session 1 and Session 2. Your presence at either session and the whole school Session in the hall is really appreciated.
See you all soon!
Welcome back everyone to our last term in Kindy!
We’ve dived right in and had lots of fun finding out things and being with our friends.
Confidence levels have been high as explorations and experimenting began as soon as our doors opened!
Our “Little Scientists” work area has been very busy with everyone trying out different ways to move water, building water pipes, pouring
with all kinds of containers and sharing our ideas about the properties of water.
There have been some perplexed faces when the water didn’t go through the pipes as expected and “wooshed” out of a different place instead!
Thank you to our families who helped us to collect a water sample over the holidays to bring to Kindy.
Samples were taken from wide ranging places, such as the sea, lakes, Canning River, creeks, ponds, rainwater, waterfall, Murray River, tap and swimming pool.
One of our families collected a sample from a lake in Kalbarri where the water is PINK!
We looked carefully at all the samples collected and noticed that that the water was not all blue!
We thought about the colours of the body of water our sample had come from , then made a painting using those colours with water colour paints.
Then we cut out a water drop and painted it with water from our sample bottle.
You can see from the display of our paintings that you can see a multitude of colours in water in the environment!
We were so excited to host a playdate for all our Dads, Pops, Grand dads, Grandpas, Uncles and Mums for Father’s Day.
It was great fun to play Lego and Mobilo, build collage and play dough, go birdwatching in our dramatic play bushland, use the sandpit and generally have a super time together!
Thanks to all our special visitors for coming along…we hope you felt very loved and appreciated!
LIFE ED VAN
We were so lucky to be invited to participate in a visit to the LIFE ED VAN that was visiting the whole school last week!
The unit topic on Belonging and Connecting” connected very well with our own Growth Mindset Unit in our Kindy Programmes.
Harold the Giraffe shared his videos about the choices we can make that help others and allow our own hearts to grow, through being kind, helpful and generally treating others with care.
We shared with the class something or someone we are grateful for in our lives as we placed a token in a bucket, such as our parents, our families, our brother and so on.
We played games wth a tiny Harold as we worked together holding all the way around a large piece of fabric like a parachute, to give the little puppet some jumping fun in the middle!
Then as we were leaving the van, we could pat and thank Harold for sharing his ideas with us!
BOOK WEEK
Thank you to all our families for helping us with our BOOK WEEK costumes! they looked truly fabulous and the Pre-Primary children enjoyed our parade as we announced which character we came as from our favourite story.
Thinking of books, thank you to our families for also sharing our “Read To Me” stories with us each week
and to Mrs Taylor for swapping them over every Monday- she is a book champion!
Remember to share a book with someone every day!
“PLAY FOR LIFE”
“Bodies, Balls and Brains”
We have begun our Wednesday gross motor programme with ‘Play 4 Life’.
We have been having great fun participating in activities and games, as well as dance and music and movement activities.
Practising these skills helps with our listening and processing, along with developing strength, balance, movement and the correct use of equipment.
Wednesday is our favourite day of the week! 🙂
