KINDERGARTEN

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.4 Belonging to God’s People

This unit introduces the students to religious imagery, to the church building, its furnishings and to gestures used. 

K.5 God’s Great Family

This unit begins with the story of Abraham and Sarah. It is a story of promise and trust and is formative to our identity as the People of God. The second part of the unit introduces Jesus’ family and tells two short stories of Jesus as a boy. The story of the People of God begins a new chapter in the person of Jesus. This unit focuses on belonging both in the family and with all the People.

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 children will view and respond to literature creatively and using different media and digital technologies. Students will be exposed to Indigenous texts and inquire into a range of Indigenous Dreamtime stories. Reading groups will occur each day for students to develop a range of reading strategies.

 Writing and Representing:

This term, the children will learn to compose their own simple informative and imaginative texts. The children will continue to follow the ‘Sound Waves Spelling’ program. They will focus on recording initial, middle and final sounds that we hear in words as well as writing high frequency words. The children will demonstrate an awareness of nouns, adjectives, conjunctions and pronouns.

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. 

Mathematics

This term, the children will demonstrate addition and subtraction by counting forwards by ones to add and counting backwards by ones to subtract. They will explore three-dimensional objects by manipulating, sorting and representing three-dimensional objects. Students will learn to identify Australian coins and notes and will be designing and interpreting their own data displays. 

At home, you can assist your child by: 

• practising counting with your child on their counting cards and pose questions such as, “What number comes before and/or after a given number?”
• ask 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 be engaged in the Earth and Space strand, which focuses on daily and seasonal changes in the environment. The children investigate how living things respond to these changes. They explore their immediate surroundings, the daily weather and ask questions about their observations and experiences.

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.

History

This term, the children will develop skills of historical inquiry and communication. They will learn about their own history and that of their family, this may include stories from a range of cultures and other parts of the world. Students will recognise differences and similarities between individuals and families in the past and present.

Creative Arts

In Visual Arts the students will create, design, draw, paint and use watercolours to create a variety of artworks. The students will create artworks based on the text “Stellarphant” and their final products will be displayed in the Library for Book Week in Week 6.

They will also engage in Aboriginal Art and various techniques used in Aboriginal Artworks. The children will also reflect on and appreciate the works of other artists.

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

Students will demonstrate a variety of locomotor skills in anticipation of a game/sport scenario. Hand-eye coordination, object control skills, maintaining stability and responding to movement stimuli will be the main focus. Students will develop multiple skills through game sense in an individual and team environments such as imagination games and simple ball games and modified sports. 

As part of our Personal Development and Health unit, the children will participate in our school-wide Peer Support program each week. The students will also be completing the PALS social skills program. This unit provides opportunities for students to learn how to socialize and interact with their peers and adults. 

Homework 

Kindergarten homework will consist of:

• A nightly reader 
• Reading and identifying sight words (in isolation and within their nightly reader) 
• A maths counting card. These counting cards are designed to be repetitive. Students move on to more complex cards once they have mastered a set of skills. These counting cards will aid with number consolidation, fluency, recall and number recognition.

Mrs Lauren Govers (KBlue)

Mrs Donna Yates & Mrs Carly Beaven (KGold)

Mrs Tracey Carnegie and Mrs Danielle Suttor (KWhite)

Important Dates for Kindergarten

Sport Days for Kindergarten are as follows:

KBlue -   Thursday and Friday

KGold -   Monday and Thursday

KWhite - Tuesday and Thursday

Library 

Every Thursday, kindergarten students will have the opportunity to borrow books from our school library. These books are to be read, enjoyed and returned the following week.

School Term - Monday, 18 July  2022 - Friday, 23 September 2022

Parent calendar available at this link