KINDERGARTEN

On Thursdays, Kindergarten have Mrs Matheson and we sink our teeth into the Key Learning Areas that allow us to explore, ponder, investigate and research topics that are of extreme interest to our little friends.  

Science: MATERIALS- WHERE FROM AND WHAT FOR? The children have been finding various materials around our school and talking about what they could be made from and where else they are found. Some clever cookies told us that glass was made of sand! The feathers on the chickens also sparked discussions about how some pillows and doonas are stuffed with feathers. Such an interesting unit. 

Health: Look At Me Now! IsN our Health unit and the children are enjoying learning more about themselves personally. Some students completed the at home task, asking their parents how their name came to be and why. The responses were so heartwarming and those children who brought something in had such pride in presenting these to their peers.  

Geography:  People Live in Places – Part 2. Part 1 was so enjoyable last term, and the children are glad to be taking their newfound mapping skills into Part 2. The children will be moving forward with mapping, Aboriginal Peoples perspectives of local locations and building hands on structures of things around us. 

Term 4 is halfway there, and it is flying by. We are working very hard in kindergarten.  

Mrs M & Kindergarten  

YEAR 1

In Year 1 we have been learning about the FLoSS and Zack rules. FLoSS reminds us that if the word is short and the vowel is a short sound that we need to double the last letter if it is an f, l, or s. The Zack rule teaches us that when the word is short and the vowel is short then we use 'ck' if the word ends with a /c/ sound. 

We wrote some sentences and identified when we had to use the FLoSS and Zack rules. 

YEAR 2

In year 2 Literacy over the past two weeks, our grammar focus has been on verbs and their tense. We first learnt that lots of verbs use the suffix ‘ed’ to show that they have happened in the past, for example 'jump' becomes 'jumped'. This week we looked at irregular past tense verbs such as 'wake' becoming 'woke', and 'stand' becoming 'stood'. Our challenge was to take the story that Miss Payton gave us in present tense and re-write the story in past tense. Miss Payton thinks that we are super smart grammar kids!

STAGE 3

This Term Stage 3 have been lucky enough to participate in the Jets: LEARN ONLINE Program, sponsored by Greater Bank. We have been practicing soccer specific skills that have been presented to the children online, by some of their favourite Newcastle Jets players. This year, OLV was also selected to be one of 20 lucky schools to receive an in-school visit from the Jets where we learnt fundamentals of soccer such as first touch, dribbling and passing. Although the weather wasn’t kind to us on the day, the students involved still had a ball.