‘You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.’ Dr Seuss

Kindergarten are off and racing and have had a wonderful start to their school learning journey. They have settled in extremely well to class routines and expectations and have been approaching learning tasks with great excitement and gusto!

They have enjoyed playing fun ‘get to know you’ games and have worked on developing friendships through developmental play opportunities. These learning experiences have formed part of their first unit of inquiry into ‘Belonging’.

Kindergarten have been busy little bees learning how to work collaboratively and independently in literacy and numeracy activities. They have been learning how to read books independently, focusing on the reading strategies; ‘Eagle Eye’ (looking at the pictures) and ‘Stretchy Snake’ (stretching out sounds and then blending them together). After reading their ‘just right’ book, the boys have been practising their retell of the story with a ‘talking partner’. In literacy sessions they have also been practising breaking words into syllables and developing rhyming skills.

In numeracy lessons the boys have had great fun making patterns and developing their counting skills using a variety of counting strategies, such as ‘line up and count’ and ‘move and count’. They have also participated in data collection activities, graphing their hair colour and favourite ice cream flavour.

We are looking forward to seeing the Kindergarten boys take off this year in great leaps and bounds and develop a love of learning. They are certainly on their way!

Miss Smallhorn – Kindergarten Teacher