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Kindergartens are Extraordinary
Kindergarten students are so excited to be learning to read. We now have enough letter sounds to put together to make words! We have been working hard with listening and identifying initial and ending sounds of words. We are using sound boxes to help us write two and three sound words.
We also got creative and painted some pretty amazing t, t, tigers !
In maths we have just finished our first whole number focus where we have been reading and representing numerals to 20. We had lots of fun investigating number lines, number charts, tens frames and using many different concrete materials to represent numbers.
Here are a few parent tips you may wish to use to help your child.
Go on a number hunt together and discover places where numbers are used such as:
- a clock
- television
- computer keyboard
- calendar
- telephones
- car licence plates/road signs
Counting with your child at home
- Encourage your child to count the number of pegs used to hang out the washing.
- Count the number of steps from the front door to the letterbox.
- Count the number of eggs in a carton, and again after some have been removed.
- Count the number of times you and your child can throw a ball to each other without dropping it.
- Read and talk about stories and rhymes that use numbers.
- Sing songs and nursery rhymes that include numbers such as Five Little Ducks and Baa Baa Black Sheep.
- Have your child count as far as they are able to go and then encourage them to join you while you continue counting.
PDH with Mrs Hoy
In Kindergarten Health lessons, we have been learning to identify how people grow and change and what makes them special. We are focusing on aspects of individual bodies that make them unique and special eg. size, shape, colour, male, female and identifying parts of the body. We decided to head outside into the beautiful sunny day to explore these intentions. We traced our friend’s body with chalk and then helped each other name the parts of the body. To consolidate the concept of being unique and the CPV of “Being made in God’s image and likeness,” we decorated ourselves.
