Term 4

Welcome back to term 4, the last term of the Kindy year. L

Only 10 weeks and we will be big Pre-Primary Kids!

We have had so much fun already this year and it has been really eventful, this term will be just as busy with lots of amazing opportunities for learning and discovery. Our event calendar for the next few months is looking pretty busy so it would be advisable to mark the following dates on your calendar. 

Upcoming events this term are:

4th & 11th November - Kindy 2016 Parent Info Session (library).

18th November - Kindy performing at the whole school assembly. 

25th November & 2nd December - Kindy Student Orientation

4th December - Whole School Fun Day 

(Group 1 will be invited to come along and enjoy some of the day)

14th December - School reports sent home

15^th December – Group 1 – class party (long table lunch)

17^th December – Group 2 – class party (long table lunch)

17th December - Students last day

Notes to remember:

- The weather will soon be getting warmer. Please remember to put sunscreen on your child before they come to school, and pack an easy to use sunscreen which they will be able to apply themselves during the day. 

- Pack a spare change of clothes in case your child gets wet from water play at school. 

-       Your child needs a hat EVERYDAY. If they forget their hat they are limited to playing in the sandpit as we do not allow them to play in the sun.

-       If you planning on going on holiday before the last day of school please ensure you have told your class teacher with plenty of notice. This also needs to be approved in writing through the principal; Matt Jarman.

-       Reminder that Library day is Wednesday (Every Fortnight).

-       New parent rosters are up should you wish to volunteer your time.

This term:

This term our theme is Water, we are hoping for some lovely weather so we can get outside in the water play.

In Literacy our Talk for Writing text is Rosie's Walk. We will explore this in detail whilst participating in lots of great activities. We have spent the last few weeks focusing on learning                 S A T P I N M D letters, and using these to blend and segment simple CVC words. 

In Numeracy we are revising taught concepts from the year, as well as focusing on solving simple number stories using concrete objects.

We hope you have an enjoyable term!

Elmo

This week we were lucky enough to have access to the schools Elmo device. This device is an electronic magnifying glass that allows us to zoom in on objects and project the image onto the TV.

We used Elmo to look at insect features and practised orally labelling the parts we could see. We explored spiders, ants, ladybirds, moths, centipedes and beetles. 

The images were very interesting and showed us things that we cannot normally see with our own eyes. 

WA Museum and Hyde Park

Museum and Hyde Park Excursion

Last week the Yanchep Beach Kindy classes left school for the whole day and travelled into Perth on a long bus ride to visit the WA museum and Hyde Park. To continue our learning on insects and mini beasts we explored the museum and were able to find bugs from all over Western Australia! We found beetles, butterflies, spiders, stick insects, spiders and many more bugs. The museum workers even brought out a live leaf insect! We learned that leaf insects are camouflaged to take on the appearance of leaves so that the birds do not find them and eat them.

We then explored the rest of the museum and discovered dinosaur bones from local dinosaurs. We also saw diamonds and glowing rocks. In the mammal room the Kindy children had to listen to descriptive clues to try and find the correct mammals. 

After wandering around the museum we jumped back on the bus and went and had lunch and a play at Hyde Park. We had a marvellous day and were fortunate to have gorgeous weather both days!

Group 1

Group 2

Book Week

This week we celebrated Book Week.

I was super impressed with the effort that everybody took to dress up! All of the Kindies looked outstanding! We had a great variety of characters such as: princesses, spidermen, batman, a minion, pirates, cats and lots of others!

Group 1 participated in their DEAR (drop everything and read) on Tuesday afternoon where lots of our families and some of the senior students came to read books to us in the nature play.

Group 2 managed to stay dry whilst doing there DEAR inside the classroom where we were lucky to have a parent and Mr Fuller read to us.

Lynne and Sharon from Two Rocks and Clarkson library visited us and read some great stories bout bugs. This was apart of the Better Beginnings program where we all got to take home a book pack.

What a fantastic week!!!

Group 1 - Better Beginnings

 Group 1 - DEAR

 Group 1 - Costumes

Group 2 - Costumes

Group 2 - DEAR