Halloween Fruit

To celebrate Halloween we made jacko-lantern and pumpkin fruit. We wish everyone a safe and spook-tacular Halloween weekend.

Term 4 Newsletter

Welcome back to term 4, the last term of the Kindy year. 

Only 10 weeks and we will be big Pre-Primary Kids!

We have had so much fun already this year and it has been really eventful, this term will be just as busy with lots of amazing opportunities for learning and discovery. Our event calendar for the next few months is looking pretty busy so it would be advisable to mark the following dates on your calendar. 

Upcoming events this term are:

4th & 11th November - Kindy 2016 Parent Info Session (library).

18th November - Kindy performing at the whole school assembly. 

25th November & 2nd December - Kindy Student Orientation

4th December - Whole School Fun Day 

(Group 1 will be invited to come along and enjoy some of the day)

14th December - School reports sent home

15^th December – Group 1 – class party (long table lunch)

17^th December – Group 2 – class party (long table lunch)

17th December - Students last day

Notes to remember:

- The weather will soon be getting warmer. Please remember to put sunscreen on your child before they come to school, and pack an easy to use sunscreen which they will be able to apply themselves during the day. 

- Pack a spare change of clothes in case your child gets wet from water play at school. 

-       Your child needs a hat EVERYDAY. If they forget their hat they are limited to playing in the sandpit as we do not allow them to play in the sun.

-       If you planning on going on holiday before the last day of school please ensure you have told your class teacher with plenty of notice. This also needs to be approved in writing through the principal; Matt Jarman.

-       Reminder that Library day is Wednesday (Every Fortnight).

-       New parent rosters are up should you wish to volunteer your time.

This term:

This term our theme is Water, we are hoping for some lovely weather so we can get outside in the water play.

In Literacy our Talk for Writing text is Rosie's Walk. We will explore this in detail whilst participating in lots of great activities. We have spent the last few weeks focusing on learning                 S A T P I N M D letters, and using these to blend and segment simple CVC words. 

In Numeracy we are revising taught concepts from the year, as well as focusing on solving simple number stories using concrete objects.

We hope you have an enjoyable term!

Museum and Hyde Park Excursion

Last week the Yanchep Beach Kindy classes left school for the whole day and travelled into Perth on a long bus ride to visit the WA Museum and Hyde Park. To continue our learning on insects and mini beasts we explored the museum and were able to find bugs from all over Western Australia! We found beetles, butterflies, spiders, stick insects, spiders and many more bugs. The museum workers even brought out a live leaf insect! We learned that leaf insects are camouflaged to take on the appearance of leaves so that the birds do not find them and eat them.

We then explored the rest of the museum and discovered dinosaur bones from local dinosaurs. We also saw diamonds and glowing rocks. In the mammal room the Kindy children had to listen to descriptive clues to try and find the correct mammals.

After wandering around the museum we jumped back on the bus and went and had lunch and a play at Hyde Park. We had a marvellous day and were fortunate to have gorgeous weather both days!

Group 1

Group 2

Gentlemen's Afternoon

Thank you to all the dads, mums, grandpas and uncles who made it to our Gentlemen's Afternoon Activity Session. It was wonderful to see you and your child having so much fun and enjoying spending time together. I do hope your children continued to spoil you over the weekend.

Group 1

Group 2

Book Week

Book Week is one of my favourite weeks of the year and this week did not disappoint. All of the Kindergarten children looked fantastic dressed up as book characters! We had superheroes, princesses, animals, firefighters, witches, pirates and astronauts. Many children brought in their favourite book to share with the class. 

We were visited by Sharon and Lynn, librarians from Clarkson Library. They read us some interesting stories about insects and then gave each child a better beginnings book bag!

On Wednesday Group 2 went to the library and listened to Author and Illustrator Wendy Binks talk about her experience writing and illustrating children's books. She showed us many of her beautiful stories and illustrations and then the children were taught how to draw her favourite character, Stripy the Emu. Their drawings were very impressive!

Marshmallow Ants and The Very Hungry Caterpillar Hook

A very strange thing happened in Room 4 this week. We went to eat our fruit and discovered that there were holes all through it! We had a discussion about what could have done this to the fruit and most children thought that it was some kind of insect. We then read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and discovered that in the story a caterpillar ate its way through a lot of fruit. Perhaps the Very Hungry Caterpillar decided to visit Room 4?

One of our Talk for Writing focuses this term is learning to label pictures. We are learning about the different body parts of insects and mini beasts. We learned about the body parts of ants and created our own marshmallow ants complete with a head, abdomen, thorax, legs, eyes and antennae.