Kindergarten

Dear Parents and Caregivers,  

Asslaam-U-Alaikum  

Alhamdullilah, Kindergarten’s Term 3 was packed with lots of learning opportunities. Kindy children were engaged in many meaningful experiences. I would like to share some learning themes in this newsletter.

Connecting With Environment 

In previous term, Kindergarten children were engaged in the learning about bugs in the garden. This valuable experience rolled over to the term 3 and students started noticing other living things in the environment. Kindy’s veggie garden has provided a great opportunity for students, to observe what do plants need to grow. This leads the discussions about the weather.

While reading about the native animals, students were deeply affected by the fact that some native animals are doing tough. Some animals are extinct, and others are suffering with illnesses. This learning has directed the kindy students to design the machines such as multi opening fire hose, grass cutting device, and aeroplanes, to help fire fighters encounter the bushfires.

In Term 3, our kindy students were given the multiple opportunities to connect with the environment by bringing in the displays from Nature education Centre and organising incursion from Animals Anonymous.

Students observed eggs of various animals such as ostrich, emu, goose, duck, swan, pigeon, sparrow, snake, shark, gecko, and insects. Our students also have chance to host the hermit crabs for a week. Children’s natural curiosity and sense of wonder was amazing while they have observed the crabs changing their shells.

This learning has been enhanced by providing books, displays and discussions.

Book Week 

In Week 5, Kindy students have celebrated book week while reading  stories from many well-known authors such as Mr Mcgee and Big bag of Bread, Belinda, Alexander’s Outing by Pamela Allen along with the Aboriginal dreamtime stories: 

• How the birds got their colour,
• Rainbow snake,
• When the Snake bites the sun, and
• The Rainbow bird.

For the big finale kindy students were dressed up in their favourite costumes to join in the school’s special Assembly. 

Wow what a special day! 

Healthy Life style 

Another theme Kindy students had explored during term 3, was how to be healthy. We have read books 

• Handa’s Surprise,
• Oliver’s Fruit Salad,
• Oliver’s Vegetables, and
• Healthy Eating.

After reading the book Oliver’s Fruit Salad by Vivian French kindy students have enjoyed the fruit salad made by their educators.

Through this experience educators have encouraged discussion about healthy foods and sometimes foods. This opportunity opened up various other learning areas such as data collection for numeracy.

Doctor’s play for dramatic area; where children were engaged in adopting the roles of doctors, patients, paramedics, nurses and even creating vaccines for viruses. Educators have enhanced this learning by consolidating the understanding of being healthy through sharing books, organising spaces and playing active games.

At the end of this unit, kindy students are going to participate in the Mini Olympics at the kindy.  

Have a restful break, Inshaa Allah see you all in the Term 4 with another exciting phase of learning!

– Qudsia Haider