Keeping safe program

 

KEEPING SAFE

This week, the children will be learning protective behaviours through the program Keeping Safe. Over this week and after the holidays, we will be talking to the children about:

Children need to learn (at an age and developmentally appropriate level):

• the concept of personal space and how this is different for different people

• correct anatomical names of sexual body parts

• the whole body is private 

• appropriate and inappropriate touching. No one has the right to touch any part of our body without permission. 

"From the head down to my toes. I say what goes." 

Both Kindy classes will be taking part in the Keeping Safe lesson about personal space and body parts. We will be reading stories and emphasising the fact that all parts of their body are private. I understand that the children may laugh and giggle when we talk about the anatomical names, but this is important for every child to know.

Recent research shows that knowing the anatomically correct language terms enhances children’s body image, self-confidence, and openness. 

This is in conjunction with the Child Protection Curriculum which has been mandated in all schools in Western Australia.

Please find the lesson outline below if you feel you need to discuss this with your child. 

Obviously in Kindy we don't label the body parts like the older students, but I use a  doll to show and explain the parts of the body during a mat session followed by an appropriate story. 

The story is  " Everyone has a Bottom". This story is about a boy, his family and his parents talking to him about body safety. The boy and little girl in the story learnt about the names for their private parts and what is appropriate touching. One of the concepts discussed is about bath time. The Kindies learnt that it's ok for people who we trust to see our bodies at bath time if we need help looking after them. They also learnt that's it's ok  to say " I don't need any help".  It was important for the children to remember that " from the head down to my toes. I say what goes". 

If you have any quires don't hesitate to come in and see me.

Miss Horrocks. 

Week 8 and Week 9: On the Farm

 

In week's 8 and 9, Kindy Blue and Kindy Red moved on to learning about farm animals and why having farms are so important. 

First we brainstormed  all about the animals and objects that you can find on a farm.  The song " The Farmer in the Dell" taught us about all the hard work you have to do on a farm to get all the daily jobs done.  The children had to choose their favourite farm animal and we put them onto a graph. 

The songs " Old MacDonald" and the Dingle Dangle Scarecrow were big hits on the Kindy dance floor for indoor fitness. 

In literacy, we read the story " The Little Red Hen". The kindies explored ways to remember parts of a story; the beginning, the middle and the end. We had to read the story a couple of times and we acted out the story with felt pieces. 

We made scones just like the  little red hen made bread in the story. Luckily the children all said they would help. It was great having good helpers not like the friends in the story who didn't want to help the little red hen. 

The children made a story map of the main parts of The Little Red Hen. The children took them home so they could read the story to their Mum and Dad. 

We designed a dinner plate from all the fresh produce you can get from a farm. Maybe there were a few treats like ice-cream added for dessert. 

We played in the farmers market.  

We even pretended to milk a cow just like they do on a dairy farm. 

Next we looked at the farm story " Rosie's Walk" by Pat Hutchins. This time we viewed the story on you tube. The children learnt many  words that help describe where somebody or something is. We call these positional language words.  

Have  a look at our maps we drew of the story, remembering all the things that Rosie did on her walk. 

She  went   around     over     under    past   through  and   across. 

To remember the story we made an obstacle course, acted out the story with props and  played a word bingo game. The children enjoyed watching the sly fox try to catch Rosie in the story. 

This week we learnt the letter T and the sound that  it makes. 

T  for  tiger 

We made towers on the new mat. 

'Blippi' came to the rescue one raining day and taught us how clothes are made from wool from a sheep. That was very interesting. The children also got to see how a combined harvester works and how to make real yummy bread. 

What a busy week we had learning about farms. 

Week 7: Rainbow week.

                               💓💛💚💙💜💓💛💚💙💜💓💛💚💙💜🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈

What a magical and colourful week it was celebrating rainbow colours. We even had a real rainbow in the sky on one of the Kindy days this week.  

The children made their own blanket using spray bottles filled with the primary colours. 

In maths, we sorted smarties into their coloured groups and talked about the concepts more and less. We even worked out something sneaky about the company 'Nestle'. Some Kindies had 14 smarties all together in their packet and some had 11. That was a BIG problem haha! I'll have to explain to the children about weight next lesson. 

We read the dreamtime story, " How the birds got their colours". We even had a rainbow bird in our classroom that day. 

Let's make a rainbow using play dough and beads to help strengthen our little fingers. 

Another rainbow bird...

Acting out the rainbow song with coloured popsticks. 

Luis and Vinny were the sun and rain in our story. 

Counting is serious work..

Making a rainbow in science using smarties. Don't worry the children weren't allowed to eat these ones. 

Rainbow number sort

Painting our own rainbows using the correct order of the colours 

Cubby and story time! 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BEAUTIFUL INDIGO. I hope you enjoyed being 4 with all your friends. 

Rainbow day dance party in the playground

I'm very excited to introduce our new Kindy mat. The children are getting to tall and big and we needed more space for learning together. 

What colour square are you going to choose today!