KINDERGARTEN

Religious Education

Scripture and Jesus - Jesus’ Holy Family 

This unit explores how the Bible is our Sacred Scripture that communicates the story of the People of God and their journey of faith. Students explore how families can build their relationship with God and how we become members of God’s family. They also explore God’s relationship with his people through the story of Abraham and Sarah and Jesus’ Holy Family.

Prayer, Liturgy and Sacraments- The Church

This unit introduces the students to the Church as the community of believers who gather to pray and celebrate. The unit allows students to explore the church as a building, where some things are always the same. Students will also be introduced to the sacred texts, liturgical vessels, furniture and gestures, and how they are used during the celebration of Mass. Students will explore how Jesus is present in the priest, who leads the celebration of the Mass and with the community gathered. Students will then identify how Jesus speaks to us when listening to Sacred Scripture and explore Jesus’ real presence in the Eucharist.

English

Reading fluency and reading comprehension

The children will continue to develop their fluency skills and strategies to read and comprehend decodable texts. Students will develop the ability to stop at the end of a sentence in response to a full stop and regulate their voice to respond to punctuation such as exclamation marks and question marks. Students will recall and recount events or characters from a text to express their understanding of the book and expand their vocabulary by clarifying unknown words. 

Literature

Our class will explore a wonderful collection of picture books and informative texts, including Wombat Stew, The Big Book of Bugs, Wave, Spencer's New Pet, Chip, Elmer, The Terrible Suitcase and Puffling. Through these texts, students will investigate the big ideas of context and perspective, discovering how authors and illustrators create stories and information for different audiences and purposes.

Students will explore how visual elements such as colour, images and symbols help communicate meaning and influence the way readers respond to a text. They will discuss characters' actions and viewpoints, express their own opinions, and reflect on important themes including individuality, inclusion and celebrating differences.

In writing, students will use their growing knowledge of language and text features to create simple informative texts while continuing to develop sentence-writing skills. They will practise writing complete sentences, adding descriptive details and prepositional phrases, and begin combining ideas to create more detailed and interesting pieces of writing. We look forward to seeing our students grow as confident readers, thoughtful writers and enthusiastic communicators as they continue to develop a love of reading and learning throughout the term.

Spelling and Phonemic awareness

Our ‘Decodable Readers Australia Program.’ will continue this term. Decodable Readers Australia is a program designed to develop reading and spelling skills through phonological awareness and phonic knowledge. This is a knowledge and understanding of the correspondence between sounds and letters to read and write words. This term, the students will continue to develop their phonics knowledge by learning digraphs (two letters that make one sound). This will further support their reading fluency and spelling skills. Students will practise segmenting and blending these sounds to read and write words, as well as build confidence when reading sentences and decodable books. You can support your child’s progress throughout this phase by listening to them read their decodable readers nightly and continuing to model reading to them.

Oral Language and Communication

Students learn to listen for understanding, contribute to social and learning interactions, use correct tense when speaking and retell details of a story or event. Oral Language and Communication tasks are necessary for students to become successful readers and writers. The children will continue to present their own ‘NEWS’ to the class weekly.

Mathematics

The students will be explicitly taught concepts from the NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus with a focus on using mathematical language, reasoning and understanding. Activities are differentiated to cater for differing student needs and abilities. 

In Term 3, the students will be learning about:

• Representing Whole Number ~ making connections between numerals, counting and corresponding quantities. This will consolidate number concepts 0-20.

• Combining and Separating Quantities ~ copying, continuing and creating patterns, combining quantities to make ten, investigating, forming and recording equal groups by sharing

• Non-Spatial structure: Mass ~ using mathematical language to describe and compare masses

• 3D Spatial Structure: Volume ~ Comparing volumes by building, filling and packing containers

• Geometric Measure: Length ~ Creating half a length

• Forming Groups ~  Investigating, forming and recording equal groups by sharing

• Non Spatial Structure: Time ~ telling the time on the hour on analog and digital clocks

Science and Technology

Weather in our World  

In this Earth and Space strand unit, the students will make observations and investigate how daily and seasonal changes affect us. They will look at how people, animals and plants change depending on the time of day and/or the seasons. The students make observations and record daily weather patterns over a month. Incorporating design and technology skills, students investigate what materials provide shelter and protection from changing weather. 

History

Personal and Family Histories 

What is my History and how do I know it?

Students investigate the concept of a family. They learn to identify different members of a family and how they are connected. They identify the people in their immediate family and investigate the country of origin of their family.

What stories do other people tell of the Past?

Students develop an understanding that stories of the past can be communicated through oral histories, photographs, books and digital media. We will need some input from families for this unit, including why they were given their name? What is the meaning of their name? We will also be asking for a baby photo of themselves, a special item from their past, a favourite toy they had as a baby and as a three-year-old and a special family object. 

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

In sport, students will continue to develop fundamental movement skills through a variety of invasion games, target games, and striking/fielding activities. They will practise skills such as kicking, passing, dribbling, aiming, striking, rolling, and catching through modified sports including soccer, basketball, and tee-ball. Through fun individual, partner, and team activities, students build coordination, spatial awareness, teamwork, confidence, and a positive attitude towards lifelong participation in physical activity. 

Creative Arts

In Music with Mr Parlato, students will perform music, organise sounds into basic structures and listen to music, guided by the teacher’s instruction. Students will engage in music through the use of known songs, rhymes, accompaniments as well as other musical repertoire presented to them.

In Visual Arts, the students will use a variety of media to create artworks including oil pastels, paint, watercolour and collage. Students will create artworks that connect to their learning in English and Science. The children will also reflect on and appreciate the works of other artists. The students will create artworks based on a shortlisted CBCA picture book and their final products will be displayed in the Library for Book Week. 

Homework 

Kindergarten will begin Homework in Week 2. Homework will consist of daily reading, tricky words and counting work. Further information will be sent home at the beginning of Week 2.

Miss Mikayla Giovenco (KBlue)

Miss Holly Pooley (KGold)

Ms Liz O'Brien & Mrs Rebecca Kokineli (KWhite)

Important Dates for Year Kindergarten

Sport 

Sport days for Kindergarten are as follows:

KBlue - Wednesdays and Thursdays

KGold - Wednesdays and Thursdays

KWhite - Wednesdays and Thursdays

Students are to wear their sports uniform on these days. 

Library 

Each week, students will have the opportunity to borrow books from our school library. Please ensure your child brings their Library Bag to school.  

KBlue - Thursdays even weeks

KGold - Thursdays even weeks

KWhite - Thursdays even weeks

2026 - School Term 3

 Please refer to the Parent Calendar at this link to confirm dates

Dates may have changed after publishing this bulletin.