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We would love to see all our Kinder families for the 2023 Mount Pleasant Road Primary School and Kindergarten Christmas Concert on Tuesday the 6th of December. There will be a Sausage Sizzle from 5pm and the Kinder will start the festive evening with a song.
We will have the children gather with staff at 5:55pm. Please see details below.
Class Concerts:
It’s hard to imagine that we are nearing the end of 2023! It feels like only yesterday we had our children walk in with big smiles and wide eyes.
Our end of year will be marked with a Christmas Concert and class party for each of our groups. The children are busy practicing some songs, we will share their Christmas craft and a small gift for each of them and staff will have a chance to say a BIG goodbye.
The details have been shared via seesaw, but here is a reminder.
- Wimbi Wednesday 14th December1:00pm – School Hall
- Marram Thursday 15th December 2:00pm – School Hall
- Gawarn Thursday 15th December 2:15pm – Kinder Deck
- Dharug Friday 16th December 1:00pm – School Hall
- Budja Friday 16th December 12:45pm – Kinder Deck
We will send out a party lunch list shortly for each class.
Budja:
It was an amazing week with our Budja class! There's something so magical about the end of year and Christmas when you get to celebrate with four and five year olds!
We had a very busy week of craft and art, the children are exploring and representing their ideas and skills in these areas. We used salt dough and Christmas cutters to create decorations, painting and adding layers of glitter paint.
The children also made and decorated their our Art bags, stapling large easel paper together and then drawing and designing them. This process was incredible in supporting children to develop delayed gratification skills as well as to work out the processing and planning skills we have been developing all year.
The children were also very focused as they engaged with construction, in working to create a mound of sand and a tunnel through it and they especially enjoyed watching the Foundation children from the top of the fort as they had a visit from a fire engine.
We are making the most of the last few days of Kinder and reflecting on all the incredible moments and learning that we have experienced.
Al, Carol and Mardi
Marram:
This week at kindergarten we started thinking ahead to the party we will be having in class on our last day on Term 4. We want to celebrate a truly amazing year of learning and fun. But we wondered - what is a party?! Children had lots of ideas: you invite your friends to parties, you turn the music on and dance, you eat cake! We also asked the children - what will we need for our party? The children thought we would need: guests, party clothes, a piñata and party food.
The children also thought that decorations are needed at parties. So this week we started working on some paper chains to use for the party. It's quite an involved process - cutting, bending and stapling rings of paper.
The children’s focus, persistence and enthusiasm was fantastic to observe. We have got quite a long length going already! Elsewhere in the room, there is glitter everywhere as the children continue exploring the concept of Christmas through craft!
Theresa and Mardi.
Wimbi:
This week in Wimbi we have continued to explore the concept of Christmas. We read a book together, ‘The Night Before Christmas’ and children shared their ideas and experiences of how this time of year is celebrated in their homes.
The children are also demonstrating their learning in their collaborative play skills, especially outside where they negotiate the sharing of popular resources such as the swings, slide and sandpit. We are seeing skills such as turn taking, teamwork and following rules on display. We very proud of their increasing competency in this area!
Theresa and Kristy.
Gawarn:
We have had such a fun and exciting week in Garwan class. The weather has been glorious allowing us to spend quality time outdoors. Water play has been very popular due to the warmer weather. The children have also enjoyed exploring and experimenting in the sand pit with water and the new play equipment.
We have been very busy rehearsing our songs for the Christmas concert. It is rewarding seeing and listening to the children confidently sing together as a group.
We have introduced new Christmas art and craft activities. It is s It is so rewarding seeing the children take part in these activities and putting so much detail into their art work. The calendars and Christmas stamps have been a very popular activity.
Wishing you all a lovely week,
Kelly and Kristy
Dharug:
We had such a fun day in Dharug class this week. The weather has been glorious allowing us to spend quality time outdoors. The sandpit and water play have continued to be very popular stations.
Indoors the children have been busy rehearsing their songs for our Christmas concert. As each week passes the children are becoming more confident singing together as a group. Well done Dharug class!
We have introduced new Christmas activities to our program. The children were excited to make Christmas crowns and exploring with the art media. The Christmas stamps and Christmas decorations were very popular activities.
We had a practice whole school evacuation on Friday morning. Prior to the evacuation Kelly and Kristy spoke to the children about the evacuation and what we had to do to ensure we were all safe and accounted for. The children did a wonderful job listening to and following the instructions. Well done Dharug class!
Wishing you all a lovely week,
Kelly and Kristy