What’s
happening in Kindy this week and some things you can do at home with your Kindergarten child:
We always
start with our greeting song to say good morning and get settled for the day.
As a class
we sing some more of our thematic weekly songs. A lot of our listening skills
and oral language comes from learning and singing chants, rhymes and songs.
Here is a
list for over the week:
They can be found on You tube or spotify.
- ABC SONG to help us wash our hands properly. The children sing the alphabet names together. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P. This helps us not to rush when we are rubbing our hands with soap. I say they can stop at the letter P. Then they can rinse off with water to the the letter Z.
- If your happy and you know it- you tube or spotify.
- Rainbow song, as we have been looking at the story ' The Rainbow Fish'.
Monday the 23rd: Kindy Red have their Rainbow fish to colour, cut and glue some
sparkles onto ( look around your house or craft table). Kindy
Blue have completed theirs.
Story is found on You tube.
We also made rainbow names:
The children hunted for their coloured magnet letters and matched them onto a letter in their name. They also counted how many letters they had in their name. At home you can write your child's name and give it to them. They could find the letters on the Alphabet mat below or use puzzle pieces if you have them at home.
( Children don't need to say letter sounds at this stage. Just let you child hunt for their letters to help with recognition and observation skills)
WEEK 8:
We are moving onto exploring spring, new life and Easter.
You can find
the following songs on you tube or Spotify to sing at anytime with your child:
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- Five current Buns: Can change to Five hot cross buns. Instead of the word penny in the song, I change it to a dollar.
· Five Little bunnies
· This is the way the bunny hops- Spotify or you tube
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The butterfly song-
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Literacy:
In Kindy
this week, we are reading the Hungry Caterpillar.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Animated Film or story book on you tube.
You can read this to your child at Home.
Cover
story: You could ask
your child to describe the caterpillar? Why do
you think he is hungry?
As you are
reading: How many things did the hungry caterpillar eat on Monday, Tuesday etc.
Ask your child to check by counting the pieces of fruit one by one. Wow what is
happening to the caterpillar?
How many
things did he eat on Saturday?
The next day
reading:
Discuss the
changes the caterpillar undergoes: egg, small caterpillar, big caterpillar,
goes into a cocoon then a butterfly.
Then ask your
child if they can think of other living things that grow and change eg tadpole, flower, chicken, baby etc
Explain- What did the caterpillar change into?
New words for syllable learning: The children have also been jumping into hoops to count how many beats are in a word.
They have been having ago at " What are the beats in?....
Lion, zebra, camel, elephant and octopus
This week at home you could see if your child can say the beats in the words
rabbit, butterfly, sunshine, flower, Easter, bunny, chicken, ladybug and even caterpillar ( this one is a challenge hehe)
If you are reading a story to your child and a new word comes up. You can ask your child " How do we say this word with your beats. Start with your hands on your head, for the next beat move to your shoulders and if the word has three beats you need to move your hands to your hips.
e.g But / ter / fly
Mathematics:
On Monday we
went for a living thing hunt around the garden. You could go for a living thing hunt at home ( ants, bugs, flowers, bulbs, leaves, worms etc). Make sure there is an adult to
lift up any rocks.
Name the living things that grow in your garden just like
the Hungry Caterpillar.
Criteria for children: do they move, breathe, need food and water, do they grow etc... Point to a rock or stick. Are they living things?
We are still
exploring the concept of one to one correspondence through hands on counting,
sorting and lining up of objects. “ I
can count five rocks etc. On Monday the caterpillar ate One apple, two pears etc.
Can your child make a recipe in their backyard.
With your child, go outside and make a recipe. What do we need?
3 sticks
1 flower
1 cup of sand
1 cup of water
4 rocks
5 leaves etc
5 leaves etc
Play a number matching game with your child. Get them to line up five objects of choice. See if they can count to 3...5.... or even ten.
In class we are matching number quantities: Can your child have a go at matching One object to the number 1? Two objects to the number two? I always have the number of dots near a number so your child can still count without recognising the written number at this stage.
Ice cream matching activity to print out.
The children don't have to complete this. You could look at this with them and see if they could find the correct amount of objects around the house to match it to the correct number.
The children don't have to complete this. You could look at this with them and see if they could find the correct amount of objects around the house to match it to the correct number.
Have fun counting!
- Which objects float or Sink. Which objects are heavy or light?
Fill up a container of water. Collect some objects that sink or float. Eg metal car, wood, marble, tennis ball, spoon, sponge, plastic toy, feather etc.
Get your children to test if they are heavy/sink or light/float?
Record which ones sink. Record which ones float.
( Send your teacher some photos please!)
Let your child have ago at putting on their own shoes, doing their own buttons and practicing any zips that they have to do up.
If you need any help with washing hand reminders. Here is a song they love!
If you need any help with washing hand reminders. Here is a song they love!
Keep safe. Read stories and don't forget to play in the fresh air. Untill I see you again. Stay in touch with us via the blog. XXX Miss Horrocks.
