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Posts By fleming.julieanne

Kindergarten Pre Writing Skills

  • May 16, 2020
  • fleming.julieanne
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue · Kindy Gold · Uncategorized

Pre-writing skills are the fundamental skills that children need to develop before they are able to write – such as holding a pencil, drawing a picture, copying shapes, letters, numbers and colouring in. Pre-writing skills allow a child to be able to effectively hold a pencil and use it confidently to produce legible handwriting.

What are the building blocks necessary to develop writing readiness (pre-writing)?

Hand and Finger Strength – Using play dough, squeezing tweezers and pegs, and singing and acting finger play rhymes can all build strength.

Crossing the Midline – is the ability to cross the imaginary line down the centre of your body. It is important for reading and writing, and many  school activities. Try dance moves where arms and legs cross the body, painting at an easel using only one hand, passing a pair of socks from hand to hand repeatedly, and around the body, around the legs, swapping hands as you go.

Bilateral Integration – using two hands together with one hand leading. Try opening a jar, cutting paper, threading, doing up zips and buttons.

 

Upper Body Strength – a child’s neck and trunk need to be stable to support the other limbs and prevent fatigue. Try laying on the tummy using arms to move on a scooter board, practice ‘Dead Ant’ and ‘Superman Poses’ for the count of 20. 

Object Manipulation – Children need to be able to effectively use their toothbrush, hair brush, crayons, spoon and fork, hold and move pencils and scissors. Encouraging independence will give children a lot more practice at using their hands with growing efficiency.

Pencil Grip – Encourage your child to hold their pencil in a way that allows their hand and fingers to move freely and easily when writing or drawing.

We integrate the further development of these building blocks for pre-writing skills throughout our Kindy days. Over time, when these basic skills are automatic, the brain can concentrate on higher order composition skills as children become writers.

We hope you can enjoy sharing time with your child using play dough, singing and acting out finger rhymes, painting, pegging, zipping, doing up buttons, cutting, drawing, colouring in and practicing Superman and Dead Ant poses at home, to build on what we do at Kindy!

 

Kindy Blue Term One 2019

  • April 10, 2019
  • fleming.julieanne
  • · Kindy Blue · Uncategorized

 

WOW!

We have had loads of fun and learned so much over our first term in Kindy Blue!

“Give Me Five” has been so important to learn about and follow every day at Kindy, as we learn to control our wriggles and switch on our eyes and ears and thinking.

We need to use active looking and listening, to promote new learning, so we can grow thinking brains, to share our ideas and learn from others.

These mat manners are encouraged daily to promote turn taking in conversation, so we can hear and learn from stories, so we can learn and develop new concepts from involvement with different materials and equipment.

We also need this turn taking to learn from our peers, in play situations, group situations,

and to learn from our teachers.

Manners help us share meals together and learn how to look after our bodies’ needs.

We can learn patience as we wait our turn in a line to wash our hands.

We can look and listen when we are viewing and participating in Music and Movement songs and dances.

Our mat manners help us to listen to our teachers.

We look and share our learning and ideas as we conduct science experiments.

We listen to and share in stories about Jesus life and his work teaching about God.

We learn about our native Australian wildlife from visitors like Oz west and their koala, dingo, lizards and snakes.

We learn how to slow down and think about information as we create drawings about ourselves.

We use our learning about shapes and how they can go together, to create observational drawings of our mascot Freda, the frill necked lizard.

We use our listening ears to follow the teachers directions on how we could go about a task.

We are learning about the letters in our names and how they are sequenced.

This is the most important word we know at the moment!

We can share ideas about games, who will do particular jobs in the game, what we might wear, all sorts of important social decisions that

“Give Me Five” help us to organise with our friends.

“Give Me Five” can help us learn and grow in so many ways!

We are looking forward to a lovely, relaxing holiday

and then we return to Kindy to learn some more!

Happy Easter to all our Families over the holidays!

Term 2 2018 Parent Letter

  • May 17, 2018
  • fleming.julieanne
  • · Kindy Blue

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Kindy Blue 5th March 2018

  • March 4, 2018
  • fleming.julieanne
  • · Kindy Blue · Uncategorized

SCIENCE


THE SUN CHANGES EVERYTHING!

The emphasis within this module is on the influence of the SUN’S energy on a child’s everyday life and how the SUN’S energy creates changes.

We have a class mascot called FREDA the frilled neck lizard, who introduces us to Reptiles and their need for the SUN’S light energy.

We have researched the REPTILE family and noted their characteristics and need for the SUN’S energy to hunt for food and escape from predators.

We are following a sequence of activities to investigate the power of the SUN.

We identified how we warm and cool our bodies, what we know about the SUN, SUN safe behaviours and conduct simple experiments to investigate how a range of familiar objects can change if left in sunlight.

Our reptile Park has been a very popular spot in Kindy as the lizards, snakes, turtles and crocodiles have adventures in the habitat we created for them.

Look out for all of this and our Observational Drawings Of Freda , along with other learning experiences at OPEN NIGHT Wednesday of Week 9 of term.

Hope to see you there!

 

Kindy Blue 23rd October 2017

  • October 24, 2017
  • fleming.julieanne
  • · Kindy Blue

Welcome back everyone to our last term in Kindy!

We’ve dived right in and had lots of fun finding out things and being with our friends.

Confidence levels have been high as explorations and experimenting began as soon as our doors opened!

Our “Little Scientists” work area has been very busy with everyone trying out different ways to move water, building water pipes, pouring

with all kinds of containers and sharing our ideas about the properties of water.

There have been some perplexed faces when the water didn’t go through the pipes as expected and “wooshed” out of a different  place instead!

Thank you to our families who helped us to collect a water sample over the holidays to bring to Kindy.

Samples were taken from wide ranging places, such as the sea, lakes, Canning River, creeks, ponds, rainwater, waterfall, Murray River, tap and swimming pool.

One of our families collected a sample from a lake in Kalbarri where the water is PINK!

We looked carefully at all the samples collected and noticed that that the water was not all blue!

We thought about the colours of the body of water our sample had come from , then made a painting using those colours with water colour paints.

Then we cut out a water drop and painted it with water from our sample bottle.

You can see from the display of our paintings that you can see a multitude of colours in water in the environment!

 

 

  • October 16, 2017
  • fleming.julieanne
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue

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Kindy Blue September 4th 2017

  • September 7, 2017
  • fleming.julieanne
  • · Kindy Blue · Uncategorized

We were so excited to host a playdate for all our Dads, Pops, Grand dads, Grandpas, Uncles and Mums for Father’s Day.

It was great fun to play Lego and Mobilo, build collage and play dough, go birdwatching in our dramatic play bushland, use the sandpit and generally have a super time together!

Thanks to all our special visitors for coming along…we hope you felt very loved and appreciated!

 

 

Kindy Blue August 26th 2017

  • August 27, 2017
  • fleming.julieanne
  • · Kindy Blue · Uncategorized

LIFE ED VAN

We were so lucky to be invited to participate in a visit to the LIFE ED VAN that was visiting the whole school last week!

The unit topic on Belonging and Connecting”  connected very well with our own Growth Mindset Unit in our Kindy Programmes.

Harold the Giraffe shared his videos about the choices we can make that help others and allow our own hearts to grow, through being kind, helpful and generally treating others with care.

We shared with the class something or someone we are grateful for in our lives as we placed a token in a bucket, such as our parents, our families, our brother and so on.

We played games wth a tiny Harold as we worked together holding all the way around a large piece of fabric like a parachute, to give the little puppet some jumping fun in the middle!

Then as we were leaving the van, we could pat and thank Harold for sharing his ideas with us!

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BOOK WEEK

Thank you to all our families for helping us with our BOOK WEEK costumes! they looked truly fabulous and the Pre-Primary children enjoyed our parade as we announced which character we came as from our favourite story.

Thinking of books, thank you to our families for also sharing our “Read To Me” stories with us each week

and to Mrs Taylor for swapping them over every Monday- she is a book champion!

Remember to share a book with someone  every day!

Kindy Blue August 11th 2017

  • August 12, 2017
  • fleming.julieanne
  • · Kindy · Kindy Blue

“PLAY FOR LIFE”

“Bodies, Balls and Brains”

We have begun our Wednesday gross motor programme with ‘Play 4 Life’.

We have been having great fun participating in activities and games, as well as dance and music and movement activities.

Practising these skills helps with our listening and processing, along with developing strength, balance, movement and the correct use of equipment.

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Wednesday is our favourite day of the week! 🙂

Kindy Blue August 2nd 2017

  • August 3, 2017
  • fleming.julieanne
  • · Kindy Blue

MORNING STATIONS

This term our morning stations have a MATH focus.

Most of us are adept at finding our group and starting our activities as soon as we have put our name up.

We have tried…

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Threading beads of varying colours, sizes and shapes.

Some clever kids even threaded according to a pattern they made!

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Playing Dominoes, matching the number of spots.

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Finding the shapes to match the Geo Shape block patterns.

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Making towers of Unifix cubes to match the numbers on the mats.

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Stacking Donuts to match the number tiles.

It’s a good idea to CHECK and recount your stack to be sure it is correct.

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How many ways can you show a number?

We line up all the ways to match the numbers 1-10.

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Using coloured pop sticks to copy the pattern cards- trickier for us than you might think!

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Roll the dice and place that many marbles in the dish- can you fill it to the top?

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Count the pictures and decide how many, then choose which is the correct numeral and clip a peg onto that numeral.IMG_0922

Read the number and place that many stickers along that line to make a stairway.

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Playing Dominoes by matching the numerals.

Most days we also practise ordering numerals 1-10 in a number line.

We try to remember to use words like “…move in between…” or “…goes after…” or “…is more than…”

to move incorrect numbers to the correct place.

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We always have to read and CHECK that we have the numbers in the correct order.

Then we have to find answers to tricky questions like “Which number is between 5 & 7?”, “Which number is one more than 8?”, “Which number is one smaller than 3?” , “Which number comes after 7?”.

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