Baking Bread for the Little Red Hen

In the Little Red Hen story, she makes some bread. We discussed that wheat can be turned into flour which can then be used to make bread. We read a recipe sent to us from the Little Red Hen. We had to mix the ingredients and knead the dough with our hands to make it nice and smooth. 

We the baked it in the oven and could smell the delicious bread baking. Our mini loaves were really tasty and we left some out for the Little Red Hen and her friends on the farm!

The Farm Comes to Kindy!

We were lucky enough to have a visit from Old MacDonald Farms this week. The Kindy children loved getting to feed, groom and pet the farm animals. It was a wonderful opportunity for the children to see the farm animals that we have been learning about. We even met a little red hen!

Talk 4 Writing- A Visit from the Little Red Hen

This term the Kindergarten Talk 4 Writing text is The Little Red Hen. One morning at Kindy there was a strange noise outside and Miss Magill saw something scoot behind the tree. She thought she had seen some feathers, but wasn’t quite sure. We went outside to investigate and what we found was definitely different to the things that we would normally see in the nature play area. We found footprints, a trowel, a watering can, some dirt and a letter. The letter was from the Little Red Hen, asking us to help her with planting some wheat. Her other animal friends had said “Not I”, to helping her grow and care for the wheat.

Welcome to Room 4's Kindy Blog!

Welcome! It has been wonderful to see the Kindy children settling into their new environment, making friends and having fun over the past few weeks. I will kick start this blog with one of my favourite poems.

All I Really Need To Know

I Learned In Kindergarten

by Robert Fulghum

All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do 

and how to be I learned in kindergarten. These are the things I learned:

Share everything. 

Play fair. 

Don't hit people. 

Put things back where you found them. 

Clean up your own mess. 

Don't take things that aren't yours. 

Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. 

Wash your hands before you eat. 

Flush. 

Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. 

Live a balanced life - learn some and think some

and draw and paint and sing and dance and play 

and work every day some. 

Take a nap every afternoon. 

When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, 

hold hands, and stick together. 

Be aware of wonder.

Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup: 

The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody 

really knows how or why, but we are all like that. 

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.