Kinder Room Fornightly Journal
07. July. 2014 - 18. July. 2014
Dear Families:
We have had a very busy fortnight with the Sage Garden Incursion, the reintroduction of Sportz Buzz, Yoga and Music. Recently we are trying to encourage children to increase the sense of connection between themselves and the nature and the world. Enjoy your reading and apologize for the late update of this journal.
Gross Motor Ball activities
As it was the FIFA world cup we have been playing lots of different ball games with the children. This game involved the children rolling the ball to each other and calling out the persons name they were rolling it to.
This meant children needed to think prior to rolling the ball who they were going to roll the ball to and had to control the ball to try and get to their desired destination.
This game involved co-operation, patience, persistence and problem solving.
Pizza Making for afternoon tea!
We made pizzas using tortillas, corn, tomato paste and cheese. It is such a easy recipe that everyone can make at home! We enjoyed each stage in making pizza, and we add our ideas of what else ingredients we can add as pizza! We enjoyed the pizza as afternoon tea. YUM!
Incursion - Sage Garden
This fortnight Natsha brought Sage Garden to us. She introduced herself and read us a book about growing plants.
Introduction from Natasha
Plant Our Very Own Beans
Planting the Vegetable and Herb Garden
Bringing our Garden back to life
Planting our beans
Take our broad bean bak home and look after it to see it grow.
Sportsbuzz!
Sport helps children develop all sorts of skills including balance and co-ordination. Practice sports help children to improve gross motor skills and understanding of team work. Being part of a team gives kids a great sense of belonging. It also challenges them to work in a group, and encourages them to think of others. More importantly Sport doesn't have to mean competitive teams and expensive equipment but it should always be fun!
From Group 1
Research on our rock pool
We looking for similar "mine stones" around our rock pool and tying to find out why some rocks are shinning and some can have burning smell if we click them together. It was a spontaneous activity but we just love to start more activities about geology!
Rock painting
We painted round rocks that we selected from the rock pool and painted them white and use as ice mountains in our ice land table!
Girls loves construction game!
It's been few days in the morning, our girls intended to build blocks as skyscrapers! They are very patient and persistent till used up every piece of blocks.
We made Puzzle
our group 1 kinders used plain puzzle to created their own puzzle.
We coloured/ painted one side and marked the other side with letters or numbers!
Many of us wrote numbers by ourselves with some help from teacher :)
Group 2
Rainbow craft
The children have become very interested in the colours of the rainbow so we have been practicing the rainbow song and reinforcing with rainbow activities. The children enjoyed this activity cutting along the straight lines, folding and pasting the paper in an arch, it was quiet challenging! It was worth it the final products looked beautiful.
Chelsea decided to make her own version of a rainbow, also cutting along the lines and pasting the coloured paper flat to create her unique rainbow.
Naidoc Week
This fortnight fell on Naidoc week. Which is a week that celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We had discussions with the children and we made aboriginal flags and tapping sticks, the children had a great interest in flags and other countries which led us to explore other countries further on maps and decorating different countries flags.
Lego making with friends
Khalid, Orlando, Roman and Benny have been developing a lovely friendship. Here you can see the boys playing lego together a great fine motor activity.
Rainbow Rain Science
To extend our learning on rainbows we made rainbow rain. This was a science experiment hypothesising whether the shaving foam and colours would float or sink and what colours we could make. Megan, Malaika and Zhenni enjoyed playing together for an extended period of time creating artwork, experimenting with what colours they could make by mixing.
Show and Tell
The children have been enjoying show and tell. They have been bringing in an item of significance to them and sharing with the audience. The children are enthusiastic for their show and tell day to come, they are learning to ask questions and share their show and tell with confidence.