Once upon a Week 1

 

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales- Albert Einstein 

This week we have focused on the fairy tale " Goldilocks and the Three Bears". 

Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes and Legends are stories which generally feature magical creatures. Often they hold life lessons and reinforce various skills while allowing you to visit other places and people. This week the children learnt about the characters and setting of the Three Bears  story and learnt  about Goldilocks' naughty character. 

SEQUENCING ACTIVITY:

SOMEBODY'S BEEN EATING MY PORRIDGE 

Oh no baby bears chair is broken 

GOLDILOCKS' CHARACTER PROFILE:

Make believe play: 

LETTER STUDY: 

Letter Ff for fairy 

What does it sound like:

Fireman

Fan

Flag

flower

fish 

What does the letter look like:

Start at top, down for a hook and a cross through the middle

We also made some funny sentences using our sounds. We call them tongue twisters ( Alliteration)

Serious Sophie's  soaking sausages 

Happy Harper's hopping

Five Funny fish 

Monty makes muffins 

Lucious Lexi licking lollipops

Big bears bit biscuits 

There was lots of laughs during this activity. 

SCIENCE

Goldilocks & the 3 Bears - Hard and Soft Activity
 
You Need:
A large box
A selection of items that are soft
A selection of items that are hard
A bandana or other blind fold



http://www.giftofcuriosity.com/learning-about-hard-vs-soft/

I talked to the children about hard, rough, smooth  and soft. A thing that is hard is a thing that does not move when you push on it. It is always the same shape, unless you break it. It feels like a rock. A thing that is soft is a thing that will bend and change shape as you push on it. It feels like a soft toy.

The children were blindfolded and had to guess the texture of the item. 

MOTOR   SKILLS AND FITNESS

jump jump star  action song. 

Jack jumped over the candle stick  on the grass area

hurdles

hopscotch   

and party limbo outside. 

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Happy birthday  to Dallas, Liam, Harper, Layla and Isobel. Have fun being 5!!!

It was a fun first week learning about Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children needed to remember to always- 

listen to their mother 

Never go anywhere near strangers or into places they don't know

Don't break other peoples things 😉

Following up from the email all parents received...

A new platform for sharing what's been happening in Kindy  is  COMING TO OLC. 

We welcome the Seesaw  family app.

Seesaw is a great digital platform for parents to see the learning given to you by your classroom teacher in the form of messages,work samples and photos. You can access the information through your phone. 

Parents will receive their child's learning code by a hard copy.

Then you  scan the QR code to access your child's individual learning journal.  I also highly recommend you click 'yes' to the notifications prompt as then you will be sent a reminder each time there is something new uploaded. I am hoping to try to share something at least each week or fortnightly to show the great learning that is happening in our classrooms. This sometimes cannot always happen during a busy Kindy week. 

1:Go to  seesaw website https://web.seesaw.me/ or install the seesaw family app for IOS or Android

2:  Choose create family account

SCAN CODE 

Create Account with a password

Then you can go to their Journal

You know where I am if you have any queries all we can go through the app during gathering time in the coming weeks. 

💗Miss Horrocks

Seesaw comes to OLC and Kindy:

Your child will bring home an invitation this week to connect with the Kindy classroom via the Seesaw App. Please follow the prompts carefully to set your account. This will involve downloading the app and scanning the QR code for families to access their child's individual learning journal.  I also highly recommend you click 'yes' to the notifications prompt as then you will be sent a reminder each time there is something new uploaded. I am hoping to try to share something at least each week or fortnight to show the great learning that is happening in our classrooms. This sometimes cannot always happen during a busy Kindy week. 

Seesaw is an App that I'm sure many of you are already familiar with from our stint with online learning last year but basically it is a platform that allows you to see some of the great work that your child is doing in the classroom. Please make sure that it is the Seesaw family app, not the Seesaw Class App.  

Please note that this will be used purely as a means for you to keep up to date with your child's learning. Any communication with myself will stay as per usual.

This term the Kindies will be receiving a story book from the school to take home that will aim to  develop their comprehension and language skills. Most importantly a love for storybooks. This is the process- 

- The Comprehension Packs will be given out on their allocated week and they must be brought back the Monday they have Kindy ( timetable below)

- Please make sure the books are brought back each MONDAY they come to Kindy ready to be swapped over after a fortnightly cycle. If you bring it back earlier that's ok we will keep it until swap over day. 

- In your child's comprehension pack they will receive: A story book and a set of questions (and answers to the questions) on a separate laminated page. 
- If your child did not read the book, it still must be returned as our librarian changes all of the packs and does not have any spares if one is forgotten. 
- If your child is sick, please endeavor to bring it to school with a sibling or another parent as it can affect the whole class if one book is not brought back. 

Obviously the stories are too difficult for your child to read so please make this a special time that you can enjoy together. Some books are just picture books and do not have any words. 


Below is an example of what the packs will look like and what they will have in them.

Please look after them.

From Miss Horrocks. 

Term 3 show and tell

Parent roster is up for this Term. I've just blocked out the first three weeks as Term 3 is usually the hardest to settle back in after the holidays and so parent roster will commence in Week 4. Thank you for your support. There is one pupil free day on a Friday this Term. Kindy Red I apologise for this inconvenience.  

Dear parents,


The time has come for our favourite activity... NEWS time. Each child will have a go at telling or showing some news. Each child will have a chosen day which is on a fortnightly cycle ( every second week). The  chosen day will remain the same throughout the term. I will send messages out the first few rounds to get parents use to this schedule. It will begin Week 2 on Tuesdays- Fridays. 

e.g Your child may be on  Weeks  2   4  6  8    or  

                                           Weeks  3 5  7  9.   This means they will have four goes each before the end of term. 


Please help your child come up with three bits of information about their object- based news or their event-based news.
eg.   When Where What Who 

        When Where What Who colour parts etc.

This is an elephant
I got it from K mart
it is grey
It has a trunk and four legs. It can walk and play in the jungle.

Your child might need a post stick note with some information on it sent in with their news to help support their memory. It's always a good idea to bring in the item in a library bag or a coles bag. 

Please no toy weapons, beanie boos or electronics.

Thank you . 

Welcome back to Term 3

 Welcome back to Term 3 everyone. Hope all the kindies had a great holiday and kept healthy and safe. I know I did!

                       Miss Horrocks enjoying the Broome weather and sunset. 

Kindy Blue have the very first Monday 19/7/21. Don't forget to check yearly calendar for this information. 

What did your Kindy child get up to? Can you help them remember somewhere they went and what they did to start our holiday recounts off. It’s ok if they stayed home you can discuss games that they played, movies they watched or family dinners they had.

A big congratulations to Riley and the Cooper family for the arrival of baby Remy ( sorry for wrong spelling) at the beginning of the holidays.

Another big congratulations to Asher, Annie and the family for the arrival of baby Sammy Fox. Wow both of our OLC Kindy families sure are growing. 

We also want to welcome two more families to Kindy Red. We have new friends Bodhi and Isabella joining us this term. Let’s make them feel welcome.  

We will be starting show and tell this term. Stay tuned for your child’s roster.

Your child will also get the chance to take a comprehension pack home fortnightly for story time at home.

We are going to be focusing on favourite fairy tales and make believe this term… Goldilocks, Three little pigs, the Gingerbread Man and The Three Billy goats Gruff. We better not forget Father/Pop day to add to Term 3's events. 

Also fingers cross for reasonable good weather to carry out our Cape Kaya excursion with Josh Whiteland. 

See you all Monday and Wednesday  ready for Term 3. Don’t forget hats, pillows, drink bottle, fruit snacks and lunch.

XMiss Horrocks.

Week 10 Aussie creatures

Giday Parents.

This week the children learnt about animals that are unique to our Australian bush. 

God made all the creatures. God made you and me. God made or the creatures from the ground and in the trees.  God made or the creatures. He made them everyone. God made or the creatures under the hot Australian sun. 

The children enjoyed singing along to this song to learn to appreciate all the animals unique to Australia. 

The children also enjoyed learning the song " Gumtree family" by Justine Clarke.

We used this action song for indoor fitness. 

   
      

The children learnt about Australian mammals and marsupials. Don't forget to ask your child " What a baby echidna is called?  

After reading the story ' Puggle', we made Echidnas out of clay and counted out 10-20 spines to put on them. The children learnt some special facts about the animals. 

A baby echidna is called a puggle 

It has a long snout and long tongue to pick up termites, 

A baby echidna comes from an egg. A baby echidna drinks milk from it's mother. 

Echidna's are monotremes. 

Baby kangaroos and Koalas are called joey's. They drink from their mother's pouch. 

We celebrated each unique Australian animal by creating a piece of artwork similar to the paintings found in the book called  " Linda Jackson's Rainbow Menagerie". 

Indoor fitness: in this photo the children are up to the slithering snakes in the song. 

We even made a crunchy munchy stew just like the friends and the Dingo made in the story Wombat Stew. This was another popular story of the week. The children had to remember the recipe in the story by making a collage wombat stew and also a stew made from items found in the Kindy playground. 

We practiced some letter formations in our sand boxes.

We finished meeting our Kimochi dolls; Huggtapus, Cat and Bug. 

      

        Sorting game with Aussie animals                               Making wombat stew 

      

Now we are ready for  a much needed rest as we head into the holidays. What an extraordinary 11 week Term we have had  learning, growing and playing with our friends. 

Over and Out.