Red Group Report
19/03/20
Welcome to all the children and families to Red Group. This short afternoon program will provide many opportunities for your child to enjoy free play, social interactions with their peer group, creative arts, climbing, digging and much, much more. For some of you this is your child’s first experience without you, which is a big step in a three year olds life and an emotional time for you too. Some children at Red Group have watched their big sister/brother come to Blue and Yellow group and they are more than ready to have their own special time at kindy. Many children are happy playing alone or parallel to other children, whilst others are seeking out new friends to play with. One thing for sure is that Red Group afternoons are filled with activity and opportunities for your inquisitive three year olds.
Term One is rushing by, only two more weeks until school holidays begin, and Red Group children are exploring their kindy environment with confidence. The children are enjoying all areas of the kindy, from the home corner to the swings. With the warm weather we’ve been having water play is a favourite with many of the children. They especially love to use water in the sand pit, creating delicious cakes, focaccia and cups of tea. Moving water through pipes and buckets, wheelbarrows, anything that can hold water, has been a fascinating investigation recently. During water play children are improving their problem-solving skills, physical development, social/emotional development and language development. Maths and science concepts are also explored during water-play, what an amazing activity filled with rich learning opportunities.
Easel painting is offered most weeks, with a variety of colour combinations each day. The children are keen to use all the equipment on the stationary shelves, such as scissors, sticky tape, hold punches and a multitude of drawing materials. Play dough is a favourite activity for some children, offering wonderful opportunities for creative expression. We also painted on beautiful Leopard Tree bark this week, giving the children a new, three-dimensional, surface to paint on.
We have been busy with other activities too, such as: rolling balls down the hill on through the pipes, climbing, swinging really high, walking on stilts, balancing on the red boards and building towers, just to name a few. How the children fit so much into ninety minutes is a real mystery.
We get together as a group near the end of the session to sing, chat, play a game and read a story. We are keeping group time fairly short at this stage with the plan to make it longer as the interest and maturity increases.
To celebrate the end of Term One and the upcoming Easter Holiday we will be inviting families to join us on the last week of term for an Easter Egg Hunt with their children. Invitations will be sent home next week.
