Learning News Kindergarten
Miss Sophie Goodman
Kindergarten
Please encourage your child to continue to practise writing their name and writing numbers at home with the correct formation!
Fine Motor Activities for home |
Playdough Creations Materials: Playdough Activity: Roll, squish, and shape the dough. They can make animals, letters, or simple shapes. |
Paper Tearing and Cutting Materials: Paper, scissors Activity: Tear pieces of paper or cut along lines. |
Bead Stringing Materials: String or yarn and small beads Activity: Thread beads onto a string to make necklaces or bracelets. |
Button Sorting Materials: A variety of buttons (or coins) Activity: Sort buttons by colour, size, or shape. |
Building with Small Blocks Materials: Legos or any small blocks Activity: Build structures, which helps with hand strength, precision, and focus. |
Tweezers or Tongs Transfer Materials: Tweezers, small objects (pom-poms, cotton balls, or buttons) Activity: Use tweezers or tongs to pick up and transfer small items into a bowl. |
Drawing and Colouring Materials: Paper, crayons, markers, or colored pencils Activity: Draw shapes, letters, or pictures. |
Sticker or Stamp Art Materials: Stickers or stamps Activity: Place stickers on a sheet of paper or stamp patterns. |
Pinching and Squeezing Materials: Playdough, sponges, or soft balls Activity: Pinch and squeeze soft items. |
Initial Lit
We have officially started learning sounds in Initial Lit. Please have discussions with your child about the letters m, s, t, a and p and what sounds they make (these will be our first five sounds). Here are some fun activities you can do at home!
Sound Scavenger Hunt
- Pick a sound (e.g., “s” for snake) and go on a scavenger hunt around the house to find objects that start with that sound. For example, socks, spoon, or soap.
I Spy with Initial Sounds
- Play a game of "I Spy" where you say, "I spy with my little eye something that starts with the sound /m/." Your child must look around and guess an object that begins with the sound, like "mat."
Playdough Letter Making
- While making different shapes or letters out of playdough, say the initial sound of the letter and ask your child to make the corresponding letter with playdough. For example, make the letter "s" and say, "s, s, sun."
Letter Sound Storytime
- Read a book and pause to emphasise the initial sound of important words. For example, when reading a book with an image of a dog, say "D-d-dog," and ask the child to repeat after you. Encourage them to point to objects that start with the same sound as your read.
Here's a great resource to help with letter formation on our first five sounds!
Writing
Here are some of our amazing recounts from this week!
Maths
For the next two weeks, we will be learning to read numerals and represents whole numbers to at least 20. Here are a few things to do at home!
- Go on a number hunt together and discover places where numbers are used such as a clock, television, computer keyboard, calendar, telephones or car licence plates
- Counting the beats to your child’s favourite song and getting them to clap their hands or stamp their feet to the beat is a fun way to get your child counting.
- Count with your child the number of buttons as you do up a cardigan or shirt.
- 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.
- Encourage writing numbers at home.
Here is a great resource to help with number formation!
