Week 6

Hello parents of kindergarten A

I hope that you had enjoyed your week as much as we have enjoyed our time focusing

on literacy.

English

We have started using our phonics books and everyone has really risen to the challenge

of being responsible for their own book. We have been learning our new sight words,

phonics (BL, FL and GL) and practising our writing.

Maths

This week we have been really focusing on addition and subtraction with number bonds

to 20. We are trying to increase our speed with recognising smaller groupings and helping

our friends who are struggling a little.

Literacy week

We had such a fun filled week this week with a number of guest readers teachers, parents

and older students sharing their favourite books with us. We talked about our favourite

stories and read some of our library books to our classmates.

We also ended literacy week by wearing our favourite character from stories to school and

with a spelling bee! We held a class competition to found our class champions and then competed against kindergarten B. Although everyone spelled really well, Kazushi was

crowned the spelling champion of Kindergarten! Well done!

Play time

We have been having a great time with kindergarten B playing group games like fruits basket and duck duck goose!

Important information

Show and tell

Rino - Tuesday - 28th May

Ryusei - Thursday - 30th May

Week 5

Hello parents of Kindergarten A

I hope you all had an enjoyable week!

English

We have been working really hard this week on all aspects of our English ability. From reading to comprehension to writing and speaking.  I have been really focusing on our penmanship and I am really happy with how we are coming along. In the coming weeks you will see an increase in amount of writing that your children will be doing.

Maths

This week in maths we have been focusing on knowing the next number in a sequence either higher or lower.

We have also been working really hard on our addition. 

Unit of Inquiry

We have started on out unit of Inquiry this week and the first environments we have been learning about is the savannah, grasslands and forests.  We all really enjoyed learning about the many different kinds of animals that can be found on the savannah!

We followed through with this into making posters of our own savannah in art class.

Play

We spent this week learning to play a little safer with our friends.

On the way back from the park on Thursday we saw a man changing the light bulbs in the traffic lights so we stopped to watch him work before coming back to school.

We designed a running game in the gym.

We found some boxes in class and have been working hard to turn them into shops and restaurants. Currently we have a hair salon, a takoyaki stall and a bakery.  We are hoping in the future to create a whole small town to play in. 

Art

This week me made Savannah posters by cutting out posters and coloured paper to make our own savannah. The kids really loved learning about the different animals and how they interact with each other.

Japanese

In Japanese this week Ms Nao has been teaching us the Japanese words for different animals and insects that can be found all over Japan as well as helping us to improve our speaking and writing.

Important information

Show and tell

Naotaka - Tuesday 23rd 

Noa - Thursday 28th 

Homework

I have given at least two pages of homework to everyone on in the class, however if your child has received any extra pages this is to help them improve in an area that they may need to work on.

Academic performance Check

As stated in the mid week newsletter, I will be sending out emails to all parents regarding an assessment of their child's academic work. Should you not receive an email by Monday 22nd please don't hesitate to contact me.

Literacy week

Will be starting this Monday 22nd and finishing this Friday 24th. There will be reading and literacy focused activities all week. This is a great time to encourage your children to read as much as possible or to get started on their reading in Raz Kids.

Height and weight checks

Your child's height and weight check should have been emailed to you this week. Please contact me if you have not received it.

Week 4

Hello parents of Kindergarten A!

I hope that you have all had a lovely weekend and enjoyed the mothers day gifts your children made this week.

English

This week in English we have been focusing not only on our writing but also learning phase 4 sight words (went, it's, help, just) as well as our phonic sounds of TR,GR and DR.

We are also focusing on our hand writing as a few of us are still finding holding a pencil a little cumbersome so I have been providing a few pencil grips. You may also see more writing practice sheets going home in our child's homework to help them improve.

Maths

We have continued work on our addition and through games like snakes and ladders and our dice games we have been quickly getting better at quick addition!

We have really been enjoying our random dice addition game and have been requesting to play it all the time!

In the coming weeks we are going to start practising our counting up to 100!

Play

We have really been enjoying pretending to be horses when we play in the park and have been showing our caring and principled natures to always try to include our friends in all of our games.

Due to the sad events that occurred in Shiga this week we played in the gym on Friday while we reviewed our procedure in travelling to and from the park to make sure that all safety precautions were being taken.

However I will be talking with the class about road safety to make sure all our friends are fully educated about and aware of the dangers of the road and travelling next to and over it.

Should you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate in contacting me.

Art and Craft

By now I hope that you have all received your wonderful mothers day gifts and cards from your children. They worked really hard all week to make them for you and put their hearts and souls into their creations to make you proud.

"We are doing this for our mum's so let's make sure to do our best"

This was from a conversation between two of our classmates and it melted my heart.

Important information

Raz kids

I placed your Raz Kids password printout within your child's homework folder, should you have not received it please contact me ASAP so that we can get them started on their reading adventures.

See Saw

As you may have been aware we have been unable to post any information regarding your child on SeeSaw. This should be rectified this week, thank you for being patient with us and I will send out an email through Jupiter as soon as we are able to post. 

Homework

Home work this week is due by Wednesday 15th.

I have noticed that a few students are failing to bring their homework back to class be checked. This work is necessary for me to see who may need extra help in certain areas as well as teaching them responsibility of their own work.

If your child has lost their homework please do not hesitate in contacting me as I am easily able to send you a printable version.

Show and Tell 

(previously known as share time)

Kazushi Tuesday - 14th May

Kei Thursday - 16th May

Naotaka Tuesday - 21st May

Noa Thursday - 23rd May

Rino Tuesday - 28th May

Ryusei Thursday - 30th May

Shunya Tuesday - 4th June

Sule Thursday - 6th June

Taisei Tuesday - 11th June

Yamato Thursday - 13th June

Yuito Tuesday - 18th June

Rian Thursday - 20th June

Yuijiro Tuesday - 25th June

San Thursday - 27th June

Hiroto Tuesday - 2nd July

Should your child have sometime special they would like to share outside of their show and tell time, please contact me so that we can arrange a time for them to share with the class.