KINDERGARTEN
Grade Bulletin - Term Two, 2021
Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Primary School provides a range of holistic learning experiences to enable students to:
- Participate in the life and mission of the school.
- Deepen their knowledge and engagement with the Catholic faith and tradition.
- Build capacity to continuously reason, reflectively, logically and critically.
- Embrace interdependence of human existence as global citizens, who are responsible to and for themselves and others.
- Engage in learning in a multitude of ways, through personalised and self-paced learning.
Religious Education
K:3 The Easter Season:
This unit explores two Easter Stories; ‘The women at the Tomb’ (Lk 24:1-6) and the second of Jesus’ appearance to his disciples on the shore of Lake Tiberias (Jn 21:1-14). Students will respond to Scripture stories and communicate their knowledge about Jesus.
K:7 God’s Creation:
This unit explores the wonder and beauty of God’s creation. It presents creation as God’s gift to God’s people and a reflection of God’s goodness. Prayers of praise for creation and commitment to care are introduced as ways of responding to this gift. The story of Noah and the Ark is presented to the children. It tells of the renewal of creation and God’s promise of blessing of the whole of creation throughout time.
At home, you can assist your child by:
- Encouraging your child to pray daily.
- Attending Mass and describing and explaining the Gospel to your child in words they understand.
English
Reading and Viewing:
The English unit will be based on the concept of Creation. The children will be developing skills and strategies to read, view and comprehend a range of literature focusing on the concept of Creation. The students will have the opportunity to respond using different media and technologies.
Writing and Representing:
The children will practise recording sounds they hear in words as well as writing out high-frequency words. We are emphasising writing left to right across the page, leaving spaces in between words, capital letters and full stops. We will continue to undertake daily writing to help the children build more complex sentences.
Speaking and Listening:
In Kindergarten, students learn to listen attentively, follow directions and express themselves fluently in complete sentences. Speaking and listening tasks are necessary in order for children to become successful readers and writers. The children will continue to present their special ‘NEWS’ to the class weekly. This involves the children talking to the class about a particular topic. Each child will have an allocated news day. This term the children will also present an animal research task that relates to our Science Unit.
Mathematics
In Term 2 students will become familiar with addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, length, position and fraction strategies. They will compare order and make correspondences between collections to 20. Data displays are collated and discussed several times throughout the term. Students should become increasingly confident in sorting and grouping objects according to different characteristics. The term ‘equal’ is introduced, whereby students are asked to find two equal parts of a whole.
At home, you can assist your child by:
- practising counting with your child on a number chart and pose questions such as, “What number comes before and/or after a given number?”
- asking your child to identify various numbers. For example, “Can you point to the number 12?”
- practising writing numerals from 0-20 and progress from there. If the children reverse their numbers continue to practise and supervise the direction of writing.
Science and Technology
This term the children will explore the ways in which living things are different and have different needs. We will investigate the basic needs of humans, animals and plants. Students will attend an excursion at Symbio Zoo on Friday 21st May, 2021 to further their knowledge of living things.
Mandarin
The students will continue their weekly mandarin lessons via zoom. Students will continue to use spoken Chinese to communicate with teachers and peers. During our Mandarin lessons, students participate in structured and routine interactions, such as using learnt sounds, formulaic phrases, and verbal and non-verbal responses.
Geography
The children will continue to participate in a unit titled - ”People Live in Places”. This unit provides opportunities for students to explore places they live in and belong to.
Creative Arts
This term in music with Mrs Da Silva, students will develop knowledge, skills and understanding in listening to and discussing their own music and that of others. They will be singing, playing percussion instruments, moving and organising sounds through their engagement in a variety of repertoire.
In Visual Arts with Mrs Brown, students will be using a variety of techniques to create artworks based on our Science and Technology unit Living Things. They will continue to explore the use of warm and cool colours.
In Drama, students will be introduced to a wide range of theatrical skills through our Lion King performance routine. Kindergarten students will be practising and fine-tuning their acting and performance skills in readiness for our big production!
Personal Development, Health and Physical Education
This term in Physical Education, students will continue to focus on their gross motor skills. Gross motor will continue each Thursday.
In Health, the students will be participating in a unit titled 'Active & Healthy'. Students make simple decisions in relation to health and safety and identify medicines and how to store them. They describe balanced eating habits and healthy personal habits as well as safe and unsafe situations at home, on and near roads, travelling to and from school and near water.
Homework
Kindergarten homework will consist of a nightly reader, reading and identifying sight words in isolation and within their texts and counting forwards and backwards from 30 daily. Counting activities will be sent home throughout the term to build fluency and number recognition.
We look forward to continuing our work with you and your child this term. If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher via a note or by appointment through the office.
Mrs Lauren Govers (KBlue)
Mrs Donna Yates (KGold)
Mrs Tracey Carnegie and Mrs Danielle Suttor (KWhite)
Important Dates for Kindergarten
Sport Days for Kindergarten are as follows:
KBlue - Thursday
KGold - Thursday & Friday
KWhite - Monday & Thursday
Library
Each fortnight, students will have the opportunity to borrow books from our school library. They will keep these books for two weeks and return them on their borrowing day.
KBlue - Thursday (odd weeks)
KGold - Friday (odd weeks)
KWhite - Tuesday (even weeks)
School Term - Tuesday, 20 April - Friday, 25 June 2021