KINDERGARTEN
Grade Bulletin - Term Two, 2023
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’ (Luke 24:1-6) and the second of Jesus’ appearance to his disciples on the shore of Lake Tiberias (John 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 the whole of creation throughout time.
English
Reading fluency and Reading comprehension
The children will be developing skills and strategies to read words accurately and automatically. We will develop their ability to read phrases consisting of 2 or 3 words aloud, in a rhythmic manner. Students will be exposed to decodable readers in the classroom to assist them in learning to read fluently.
Creating written texts
The students will continue to 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 (including proper nouns) and punctuation (full stops, question marks, exclamation marks). We will continue to undertake daily writing using draw, talk, write and share to help the children build simple sentences.
Spelling and Phonemic awareness
The students will begin Phase 2 of the ‘Sound Waves Spelling’ Program. In this phase, students learn how to represent the 43 sounds we learned in Term 1 using the letters of the alphabet. You can support your child’s progress throughout this phase by listening to them read (decodable readers) and reading stories with them.
Oral Language and Communication
In Kindergarten, students learn to listen attentively, follow directions and express themselves fluently in complete sentences. 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 continue to develop their early mathematical concepts. Students will use the counting sequence of ones flexibly which includes counting forwards to 30, counting backward from 20 and identifying numbers before and after. They will become more familiar with combining and separating numbers up to 10 for example six and four make ten. Students will investigate and form equal groups of objects by sharing ensuring they are able to record and label their groups. Students will be introduced to Mass and further explore 2D shapes.
Science and Technology
This term the students will focus on living things, their characteristics, needs, behaviours and environments in which they live. Students will investigate the basic needs of humans, animals and plants. We will attend an excursion at Symbio Wildlife Park on Friday 2nd June to further their knowledge of living things.
Mandarin
This term students in Kindergarten to Year 6 will continue to participate in the Chinese language program called the Meg Language Program. The Meg Curriculum is written by the co-author of the Australian Curriculum. All students and teachers will participate in the digital learning platform via Zoom weekly sessions with educators in China.
Geography
The students will continue to participate in a unit titled ‘People Live in Places.’ This term, they explore how and why people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, look after places. They will learn how the location of places can be represented with maps. Students will develop their mapping skills.
Amadeus Music Program
Students will continue their participation in the Amadeus Music Education program, introduced by Sydney Catholic Schools providing students with a high quality music education program.
Students will participate in activities in listening, performing and organising sound (Kindergarten to Year 6), within their regular Classroom Music lessons. Within these lessons, students will:
- Sing in unison and in parts
- Play tuned and untuned percussion instruments
- Play available instruments such as Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard (Grade appropriate)
Creative Arts
In Visual Arts, students will be using a variety of techniques to create artworks using different media including oil pastels, watercolours and collages. The artworks will be based on ANZAC Day, Mother’s Day, our English literature and our Science and Technology unit - Living Things. They will continue to explore the use of warm and cool colours. Drama is embedded across all curriculum areas through retelling stories using puppets and through play.
Personal Development, Health and Physical Education
Students will participate in a Physical Education Program with Miss Reid every Wednesday. Miss Reid will be focusing on developing gross motor skills including running, static balance, vertical jump and catching. Students will also be a part of the De La Salle PASS students coaching program every Monday (even weeks) and Friday (odd weeks). Year 9 and 10 PASS students will instruct Kindergarten through sports rotations during this time to develop their gross motor skills. There will be no Gross Motor Rotations on Thursday mornings this Term.
We will continue the ‘Open Parachute’ program for Personal Development and Health. This term students will learn how to build responsibility and accountability for their actions, identify unsafe situations and accept differences.
Homework
Kindergarten will begin Homework in Week 2. Homework will consist of daily reading, sight words and counting work. Further information will be sent home at the beginning of Week 2.
We look forward to working 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 at the office.
Miss Melissa Flynn and Miss Holly Pooley (KBlue)
Miss Hayley Wilson (KGold)
Mrs Tracey Carnegie and Mrs Danielle Suttor (KWhite)
Important Dates for Year Kindergarten
Sport Days for Kindergarten are as follows:
KBlue - Monday, Wednesday, Friday
KGold - Monday, Wednesday, Friday
KWhite - Monday, Wednesday, Friday
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 each Wednesday.
KBlue - Wednesday
KGold - Wednesday
KWhite - Wednesday
School Photos
Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - Students are to wear full winter uniform
School Term - 26th April - 30 June 2023