Term 3 Week 2

Welcome back for another exciting term! I know the teachers had a restful holiday - well mostly. We have many things planned for this term - including an exciting excursion to oakvale Zoo in week 8. The teachers started this term with some specialist Kindergarten training at Muswellbrook. We learnt many new things and I must say we were very keen to get back to school on Wednesday and start implementing some of our new ideas! Gross motor starts back this week - we are looking forward to seeing all our helpers back again for (hopefully) a warmer term.

Phonics

This week we are learning about:

          X          and           Y

This website has a great collection of activities about all the letters of the alphabet: http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/load.htm?f

Literacy

The Kindergarten classes are learning about Australian animals this term, so most of our books will have an "Australian" theme to them.

KC and KF are reading "McBungle Downunder". This is a story about a Professor who goes looking for a pet in the Australian outback. He tries to catch many Aussie animals with limited success. We watched a few clips about Steve Irwin. Go onto the Australia Zoo website and watch some clips of young Bob Irwin catching some animals - he's very funny!

KP are reading "Sebastian Lives in a Hat"

KW are reading "Possum Magic"

Watch the Story














Maths

Both last week and this week the students have been learning about money. Encourage your child to use and familiarise themselves with the coins. Provide them with different denominations to use at the canteen and explain how the different denominations work. Eg; two fifty cent coins are the same as a one dollar coin, etc

A great website that I use a lot in KC is Studdyladder - http://www.studyladder.com.au/
You do have to subscribe to the website to get access to all of the games, but you can also sign up for a trial access to see if your child will like it. It has some great money activities that are targeted at younger children. Check it out!!!

Alpha Shows - Aladdin

The AlphaShows team are coming back to Scone next week - Thursday 4th August. They were here last year, perfroming Cinderella. The show is just amazing. They have professional lighting, sound and even smoke machines. I was even amazed last year and definately don't want to miss this performance! Be sure to get your $8 and permission note in as soon as possible. Click on the link below to watch a short preview!

Watch some of the show!!!