Term 3 Week 8 Day 3

Kindergarten

Creative Arts: Craft
☑ Independent creation


Creative Arts: Music
☑ Playing along with music on Funky Kids Radio using bells and maracas

Mathematics: IXL / iPad
☑ Rocket Maths
- addition (using pencils for manipulatives; working on counting up from first number, rather than laying out manipulatives for whole sum and then counting them all.)
- recognition of even numbers.

English: Reading Eggs
☑ Map 5 Lesson 45

Human Society & Environment: Investigation
Topic: Families Past and Present - Then and Now.
☑ How people change over time - viewing Youtube videos of photo-transitions from baby to adult [Link] [Link]

Personal Development, Health and Physical Education: Role Play Safety
☑ Practice giving full name and address to emergency services, and describing the nature of the emergency

Cultural Studies: Festivals and Celebration
☑ Celebrations of Spring around the world - photographs from Vernal Equinox (First Day of Spring) festivals by National Geographic [Link]

Science & Technology: Observation and Report
Topic: Looking around you - The Park and The Garden
☑ Close observation of blossoms. First we collected and identified the blossom available in our garden. We found plum, apricot, almond and pear. We discussed their similarities and ways of differentiating between them. Waratah counted their petals, and noted other characteristics including blossom size, petal colour and growth pattern (how the blossoms were arranged on the stem - in bunches, singly etc).


Religion: Lives of the Saints
☑ Lawton Evans, Old Time Tales: Jerome and the Lion (1922) [Link]

Religion: Craft
☑ St Jerome's Lion
- We glued paper to a recycled plastic container and painted it. Waratah chose an AABB pattern for his lion's mane. He then chose and glued on the lion's features.


Other Activities: Maily [Link]
☑ Read email reply sent by Papa (in response to the Father's Day email sent by Waratah)
☑ Created and sent emails to Mum and to Dad

Preschool

☑ Reading Eggs

☑ Scissor Skills; Drawing: Lion craft
- Mulga cut out the circle for the mane and drew the lion's features.



☑ Painting; Pattern making: Lion craft
- Mulga chose an ABAB pattern for his lion's mane.


iPad:
- My First Tanagrams [Link]
- Dr Panda Teach Me [Link]
- Awesome Eats [Link]
- Jake's Never Land Pirate School [Link]
- Find Them All - Looking for Animals [Link]

Infant Activities

☑ Tummy Time

☑ Gross Motor Activities: Roly Poly Baby

☑ Baby Sign Language: "Toilet" and "All done"

☑ Exploring:
- Lots of air bathing on a warm spring day;
- short trial of sitting on potty

☑ Self Awareness: these are my hands!