St Joseph's Primary School Barraba

Learning News Kindergarten

Miss Sophie Goodman

Kindergarten

Please continue to read home readers and practise tricky words every night. 

Regular revision supports progress!

 

Initial Lit 

Here are all of our single sounds that we have learnt in Initial Lit!

Here are our current digraphs that we have learnt. 

Digraphs are 2 letters that make 1 sound!

Dictation

Here are some simple sentences you can enjoy reading and writing with your child at home. Dictation is a helpful way for students to connect their speaking with writing, while also practising the sounds and tricky words they’ve been learning in class. Spending a few minutes each night reading and writing sentences together can make a big difference in your child’s writing confidence and progress. You could even encourage your child to create a silly sentence using some of the tricky words they’re learning, make it fun!

Maths 

This week, Kindergarten began learning how to collect and interpret data displays. They’ve been enjoying gathering information and discovering interesting facts about their classmates! We will continue to learn about data until the end of Week 7 - here are a few ideas that you could do at home.

 

  • Together with your child, keep track of the time they spend watching TV or using their device. At the end of the week, see if you can make a simple display of each day of the week and the time spent using their device or watching TV.
  • Play games such as ‘paper, scissors, rock’ and record wins and losses.
  • With your child, read and collect information about their favourite sports teams. This could be their own weekend sport teams.
  • Collecting data together about something that you both find interesting. For example, what kinds of pets are most popular with your extended family or friends
  • Designing a simple data display from blocks, pegs or counters to represent the data gathered. For example, 5 blocks mean there are 5 dogs, 3 blocks for 3 cats, one block for a rabbit and 6 blocks for 6 birds
  • Asking questions to understand and make meaning from your data display. For example, What pet was the most popular? What pet was the least popular?