Red Group Report 17/10/19
As always happens in Term Four we all wonder, “where did the year go?” Which prompts us to look back on all that has happened so far with our amazing Red Group children. A time to reflect on how they have changed during the year – socially, emotionally and physically. I’m pretty sure some of the children grew a few centimetres taller in the holidays too. 😊
With a larger group in Terms Three and Four, there are more opportunities for children to develop new friendships, that may carry on into kindy next year. There are already many blossoming friendships, with children engaging in sophisticated, co-operative play. Some children still prefer playing alone during our short session, but they are happy if others join in their play. Everyone loves to join in at group time and I encourage the children to offer suggestions regarding what we do during that time together. If any parent plays a musical instrument, they would like to share with the group please let me know.
With the hot weather returning we have introduced water play each day. As well as cooling us down, water play is a wonderful open-ended learning opportunity to explore volume, gravity, improve eye/hand co-ordination and many other skills. For the Red Group children, it’s just plain fun and a great way to socialize with our friends. We will be offering it most days, so please remember to pack an extra t-shirt.
After a very busy Term Three preparing for and having our amazing Art Show we are enjoying a relaxed start to Term Four. We are offering the usual well-loved activities of painting, collage, playdough, puzzles, home corner, tree climbing etc. as we continue to learn through play. Later this Term we will have a special Pre-kindy session down at the local Cubberla Creek Park to explore that beautiful, natural environment and to, hopefully, visit our kindy Water Dragon sculpture. We will be sending home Permission Slips next week in your child’s pocket by the sign in sheet.
To help the children transition to “big” kindy next year we have started to introduce some of the kindy routines they will encounter next year. During snack time we have introduced the three-bin system for all waste/rubbish at kindy. The green labelled bin is for recyclable materials and used cutlery, the brown labelled bin is for food scraps that are suitable for our worm tower or compost bin and the red labelled bin is for any rubbish that can’t be recycled or reused.
Red Group children will have a special job this Term, creating a homemade gift for their families for Christmas. We will work on the gift during the last four weeks of the Term. Red group also has an end of year Break Up party which will be on Tuesday 10th of December, from 1:00 pm till 2:30 pm.
There are plenty of available Roster Days available if you would love to spend the afternoon with Red Group, we would love you to come and play.
