Kinder Room Fortnightly Journal
15.09 - 26.09
Dear families,
How's everyone's life being? During school holiday time, our kinders still had heaps of fun and learning with friends and teachers. We explored a lot of things about animals such as making spider web and observe and feel a real octopus. We drew ourselves from mirror, and made sun catchers with just oil and paper. we also learnt to paint our names with masking tape etc. Enjoy your reading! See you soon!
kinder team ^_^
From Group 1
Spider Web
This week we are exploring animals in different ways. The other day after morning circle children decided to make a spider web across the purple mat area! Josephine found some plastic strings to attach with lockers and shelves, we set some puppies and "treasure" on one side of the web and we crawling and crossing very gently over the spider web to get the treasure or to rescue other trapped animals. It was such a fun active time we had. Some children started to interested in the height of the web, they tried to measure themselves with the web and each other. Some children went to art corner made some spiders and other insects to hang on the web. they started to role play pretend themselves are one of the insects who may or may not caught by spiders.
Self Portrait
Encourage children to draw themselves has lots of benefits such as:
- Building their sense if identity.
- Promoting their self awareness and imagination.
- Build up fine motor skills
- Encourage their creativity.
the other day Josephine set up few mirrors in front of them so they can look at themselves and draw what they can see in the mirror. Those pictures are just fantastic and full of creativity! Looking at pictures maybe you can guess who is the wonderful artist behind it!
Making Name with Sticky Tape and Paint
Nikki showed us that we could create an art with our name by using sticky tape and paint. We concentrated made our name pattern using the sticky tape. It is okay to ask assistance from our teacher if we need it. We were so proud with the result of our hard work.
From Group 2
Oil, Water and Dish washing soap
We had science experiment; this time we observed the reaction when we mixed water and oil. Apparently water and oil can not mix together. The oil stays at the top while water at the bottom
Friendship discussion
We also discussed about friendship through this experiment. Sometime we want to play with different friends; it is okay as long as we are nice to each other.
Friendship between Oil and Water
Do you know we could mix oil and water? When we mix oil, water and dish-washer liquid soap; the water and oil somehow would mix together, well almost all of them.
Art project with Tea
Trupti showed us that we could make pattern or drawing with left offer tea. Our teachers always remind us about sustainability of our environment.
This activity also very good for us. We could extend our fine motors such as pinching skill and also sensory.
Kenneth mentioned that we could make treasure map with this tea. What a great idea Kenneth!
Sun Catcher with Oil Paper and Oil.
Another interesting art project from Trupti. This time she brought us different kind of paper. First we need to make a round circle (most of us know the trick already; we use a bowl or plate to make it)
Then we used cotton wool stick to "draw" with baby oil. We could observe that the oil paper absorb the oil. It was very interesting
We could see the pattern clearly with sun light.
Octopus Week
We learn a lot about octopus. Our teachers provided us with variety of activities; from paper puppet, science with octopus to watching documentary about octopus and squid.
Science experiment
Dinata brought whole octopus (that we might use for marinara pasta dish). We observed, touched and even measured the length of octopus.
We are curious and enthusiast learners. From this experiment, we believe that we build our sense of respect to our environment and nature.
Name painting
We also learned to write our name with paint. We used our finger and paint it by following the lines.
From this project we could extend our concentration and creativity.
Do you know painting is actually a therapeutic activity? yes, sometime we need our quiet time.