Kindergarten

Home Reading begins at the end of this week!

Home Reading

Home reading will commence at the end of this week. Readers or a ‘sounds and words’ page will be sent home in a home reading folder. We have sent home a Kindergarten Reading cheat sheet with your child today. Not only is it important to listen to your child while they are reading, it is also important for you to read to them and enjoy this one-on-one time. Taking a few minutes to help your child read through the ‘tricky’ words will also help their learning at school. Remember that we are here to help and if you have any questions, please contact your child’s class teacher. 

Please return your child’s reader every Thursday. New readers/sounds and words pages will be sent home on Friday.  

NSW Fire Brigade Kindergarten Visit

The NSW Fire Brigade is visiting Kindergarten! Our friendly firefighters will teach the children about fire safety in a fun, interactive way. They will show the children their firefighting equipment, explain what to do in an emergency, and allow everyone to see a real fire truck up close. The visit will help our students to understand fire safety and feel confident about staying safe. The firefighters will spark curiosity and answer all the children's questions.

English

We are learning to:

• hear and say the sounds /e/, /n/, /g/ and /l/
• write the letters  ‘e’, ‘n’, ‘g’ and ‘l’  using the correct formation 
• read and spell words using the sounds we have learnt
• read tricky words: was, you, to, they, that, said and are
• write a simple sentence 
• identify nouns as the names of people, places and things. 

Mathematics

We are learning to:

• partition numbers to 10
• use positional language to describe the location of an object.

HSIE

We are learning to:

• understand why some places are special to us and how we care for them
• understand what a community is, who is in our school community, and what special places we share.

Personal Development and Health (PDH)

We are learning to:

• identify how Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples connect identity to Country
• to seek help from a trusted adult if they feel unsafe
• that situations can be safe and unsafe
• that fire safety behaviours are important to keep them safe.

Science and Technology

We are learning to:

• identify the characteristics of materials 
• select appropriate materials for specific design purposes
• identify the characteristics of wood 
•  identify the characteristics of objects made from wood
• conduct simple experiments and make scientific predictions. 

Visual Arts

We are learning to:

• follow instructions to complete an artwork
• identify artworks are usually made for a particular purpose or meaning.

Deb McIntyre, Heidi Gray and Eliza Tanner

Early Stage 1 Teachers