Week Three

We have had a wonderful start to Term 3. The children have been excited to return to school to see their friends and teachers. It has been lovely to see all their smiling faces. Each child has settled quickly into classroom routines and applying what they have learnt in Terms 1 and 2. 

Literacy 

In Literacy, we have been reviewing all sounds covered last semester (S,A,T,P,I,N,M,R,C,K,H,E,D). Our new sounds this term are L, B, G, F, W, O and U. We will continue to practise identifying rhyming words and counting syllables in words using our bodies (head=1, shoulders=2, stomach=3, knees=4).

News Telling

The Kindy theme for Term 3 is “Commotion in the Ocean” and all learning areas will be integrated to link with this theme. We will be starting our news telling program, using the above topic. Children will bring in an object or picture about something connected to the ocean. We will be learning from each other, hence each child will share some information about their chosen item. 

Reading

We have started Guided Reading in Kindy. The children have been learning about the concept of print, now they will start learning to hold their own book and follow the text with their finger as we read together. Children will also begin to have these books sent home. Please spend some time with your child reading the book. There are questions on the right side of each page that can be used to support your child’s reading and comprehension skills. Please remember that children are not expected to read the book themselves yet, but encourage them to track the words with their pointer finger, as you read aloud and encourage them to join in as they are able. Talking about what is happening in the pictures and what might happen next are great ways of building your child’s understanding of what is being read. It is important that books are returned promptly on the due date to ensure they can be sent home to other students. If you have any questions, please speak to your class teacher. 

Numeracy

We will continue to build on number sense and will continue to work on understanding number lines. Children will find the missing number on a 1 to 10 number line. They have also been learning to identify the number that comes before and after. Children have been introduced to the concept of counting on. This week we will be counting objects into a bucket, e.g. 5 shells, and then count on 6, 7, as we add two more items. Our focus numbers are 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15.