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

Easter Season: 

This unit focuses on the resurrection of Jesus and the message of hope. It looks at the fact that Jesus suffered and died and he rose to new life. Jesus has conquered death and is alive. It is within this context that we tell the story of the Resurrection. We will be reading Luke’s account of the Resurrection, where the women go to the tomb and find it empty. Students will be given opportunities to explore the Easter symbols of light and new life and reflect on the festive joy of Easter celebrations at school, home and parish.

God made the world and us

This unit explores the beauty and wonder of God’s creation. It presents creation as a reflection of God’s goodness and love. The story of Noah and the Ark is presented to develop an understanding of God’s covenant with all creation. Students will recognise the importance of respecting God’s gift of creation by exploring ways we can care for ourselves, others and the environment.

English

Reading fluency and Reading comprehension: 

The children will continue 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 using decodable readers in the classroom to assist them in their ability to blend words.

Creating written texts: 

The students will continue to practise recording sounds they hear in words as well as writing high frequency words to form sentences. 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). Students will continue to write daily using draw, talk, write, share to help them plan and write their ideas.

Handwriting: 

The children this term will continue to learn to write letters of the alphabet using a stable posture when handwriting or drawing by sitting with their feet flat on the floor, the writing arm resting on a table, with the opposite hand resting on the paper and shoulders relaxed. They will trace patterns and letters to assist their fine motor skills required in writing.

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 be introduced to new letter/sound correspondences of common consonants and short vowels. They will segment and blend sounds to read words, sentences and decodable books as well as spell words.  You can support your child’s progress throughout this phase by listening to them read their decodable readers nightly and continue to model reading to them.

Mathematics

Mathematics

In Term 2, students will continue to develop their early mathematical concepts. They will use the counting sequence of ones flexibly, which includes counting forwards to 30, counting backwards from 20 and identifying numbers one less and one more. 

Throughout the term students will be learning to:

• describe and compare lengths using mathematical language; 

• count, order and compare collections to 20 and match them to numerals;

• ask simple questions to gather information to create simple data displays; 

• combine and separate numbers up to 10 e.g. 6 and 4 make 10;

• compare the areas of shapes by superimposing and superpositioning them, and

• copy, continue and create patterns. 

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. To conclude the unit, students will create a diorama of an animal habitat using a shoe box and recycled materials. 

Baby Chicks: Students will investigate the needs of chicks as they hatch and grow this term.

Geography

The students will continue to participate in the 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 and will develop their own mapping skills. 

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education

During sport, students will develop their fundamental movement skills (FMS) through a variety of individual, group and team-based physical activities. They will enhance their abilities in catching, throwing, rolling and kicking, while also refining skills learned last term, such as running, jumping and throwing. Through these activities, students build coordination, cooperation, self-awareness and communication skills. They further develop spatial awareness, teamwork and resilience in dynamic team settings. This unit fosters enjoyment, confidence and a lifelong engagement in sport and physical activity. Students will also participate in the Fun and Fitness Day on 27th of June.

We will continue the schoolwide ‘Open Parachute’ program for Personal Development and Health. This term Kindergarten students will learn how to build responsibility and accountability for their actions, identify unsafe situations and accept differences. 

Creative Arts

Our specialist Music teacher, Mr Palato will teach Music on a rotation every Wednesday. In Visual Arts, students will be using a variety of techniques to create artworks using different media including oil pastels, watercolours and collage. The artworks will be based on ANZAC Day, Mother’s Day, our English literature and Religion unit on Creation. 

Homework 

Kindergarten will begin Homework in Week 2. Homework will consist of daily reading, tricky words, counting and optional phonics activities. Further information will be sent home at the beginning of Week 2 with your child's homework pack. Students will continue to borrow decodable home readers each Monday. 

We look forward to continuing to 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 email (info@olfcaringbah.catholic.edu.au) to make an appointment through the school office. 

Miss Mikayla Giovenco (KBlue)

Miss Hayley Wilson (KGold)

Mrs Danielle Suttor and Ms Liz O'Brien (KWhite)

Important Dates for Year Kindergarten

Sport 

Sport days for Kindergarten are as follows:

KBlue - Wednesday and Friday

KGold - Wednesday and Friday

KWhite - Wednesday and 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.  

KBlue - Wednesday

KGold - Wednesday

KWhite - Wednesday

2025 - School Term 2

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