Term 3 Week 3

NAIDOC week celebrations at Wattle Grove have been informative and entertaining. The teachers and children have really enjoyed the incursion, class activities and buddy class activities.

Literacy/Phonics

Pp-

We are learning the end blend mp. Pump, bump, stump. We are also learning to write narrative stories. These have a opener, characters, settings, problem, solution and ending.

Kindy-

This week, our phonic sound is Bb as in bat, balloon and ballerina. We are also listening to hear the last sound in words cat.. /t/ is the final sound we hear.

News Telling

The topic is 'Commotion in the Ocean'. Please help your child to choose an item associated with our theme. For example, ocean creatures, seaweed, shells, books or photos of a place you have visited near the ocean. 

Reading

Guided Reading is up and running. The children have loved holding their own book and following the text with their finger as we read together. Children will begin to have these books sent home on a rotation. Please spend some time with your child reading the book together. 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 understandings of what is being read. It is important that books are returned promptly safe inside their homework folders.

Kindy Blue- Monday

Kindy Red- Tuesday

Pp Girls- Wednesday 

Pp Boys- Thursday  

Library

The children are enjoying going to the library and choosing a new book to take home. Please ensure your child returns their book on these days and brings it in their library bag. 

Pp/Blue Kindy- Monday

Red Kindy- Friday  

Numeracy

Pp-

We are learning how to break apart 8. 6+2, 3+5, 8+0, 1+7. We are skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s.

Kindy-

Our number of the week is the number 13. We are learning to identify numbers on a numberline and we have also been learning to identify the number that comes before and after. We have introduced the concept of counting on. We are doing activities in class, such as counting objects into a bucket. For example, 5 shells, and then counting on 6, 7, as we added two more items.

Upcoming Events

Term 3 is a busy term with many events taking place. Please make sure you continue to read school newsletters and the class blog to keep up to date.

Over the coming weeks, we will be learning a range of team games such as the egg and spoon race, flag race, beanbag toss and circle ball in preparation for our tabloid sport carnival! We will also run on our oval to prepare for our running races. The children really look forward to these fun days!

As well as the sports carnival, we will prepare for Father's Day and Book Week. More information will follow before these special dates. 

Last but not least, the Kindy team have organised a Scitech incursion for this week. 

We look forward to another fun week in Room 2!