Welcome back to Term 3

Welcome back to Term Three! I hope you all had a lovely holiday and the children are feeling refreshed ready for term 3 ( AKA big Kindy). 

Do you have

- your hat

- recess

- packed lunch

-  warm clothes

-  drink bottle

- pillow

- Big smiles for another term of enriched and playful learning. 

 School Drop off  8.30am: 

During Co-vid our beautiful children developed more independence and grew with more confidence, that the School is going to continue with kiss and drop.The doors open at 8.30am but the mat time bell will not ring until 9am. 

As restrictions have eased, parents are now welcome on the school grounds.  I'm happy for the parents to come into Kindy briefly, watch their child sign their name in then say their goodbyes.

Parent Roster: 
A parent roster is back on so please fill in your name on the chart when you would like to come in and spend time with your child and their classmates. Parents  can make the choice to come in from 9am-10.30am or 11.30-1pm.  Keeping in mind, we have specialty classes at 9.40am from Tuesday to Friday so if you choose the early morning session, parents need to stay behind to help the class teacher instead. 

What's On This Term?

This term we are stepping into a magical learning land full of fairy tales and make -believe story characters. 

Fairy Garden: 

We will keep adding to this as we go along. There is even some letters hidden in the garden to help with our letter  recall and recognition skills. 

Reading Cubby House:

full of  popular fairy tales. Watch Out! for the big bad wolf. 

Storytelling with felt boards

Our Prince and Princess castle:

The Kindies have an important job in the palace to look after the treasure. I wonder what other make believe play they will create in this centre? 

Princess and Prince hair dresser

arrgh Pirates!  

In maths, we will continue to practise our recognition and printing of our numbers 1-10. Where ever the children go they can see them in our classroom environment. 

Our fairy tale stories will help us with exploring concepts about measurement- long, tall, heavy, light, big and small. I wonder how tall Jack's beanstalk was? I wonder what ingredients we need to measure to make a gingerbread man? What size Billy Goat Gruff crossed the bridge first? What size bowl did Mother bear have?

Our castles and The Three Little Pig houses will help us explore 3D shapes. 

In literacy, we will of course be focusing on popular fairy tale stories and also continuing with our sound programme. Below are our next set of sounds which  fit in nicely with our fairy tale theme. 

M  for  magic and mirrors

R for ring

e for egg 

c for castle

d  for dads 

h for house and horse

K for King 

What interesting word can your child come up with at home that begins with one of our new letter sounds? Maybe they can bring it in for news. Stay tuned for our Term 3 news telling roster. A hard copy will be sent out and put up on the blog about your child's news day:)

Mission Markets 

Our annual OLC Mission Markets-  celebrating Our Lady of the Cape Feast Day-  are fast approaching (Friday 21st August - Week 5). Please keep an eye on the blog for what our year level will be hosting/ providing for the day 🙏

Dates for Your Diary:
OLC Open Night : Wednesday 26th August

OLC Athletics Carnival: Thursday 27th of August

Pupil Free Day: Friday 28th August

Catholic Day (Pupil Free Day): Monday 31st August
Photo Day: Thursday 10th and Friday 11th of September
Father's Day: Sunday the 6th of September.

If you have any questions or queries, please don't hesitate to email me, catch me at the door or find time to chat.

I'm looking forward to a wonderful term!

Miss Horrocks.