Science week!

Hello parents of Kindergarten A

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and enjoy hearing about the fun we had during

science week.

English

I have been very impressed with our reading abilities this week. Some students are really

trying hard to improve their reading abilities and sharing their skills with others. 

We are still reading a Raz-kids book as a class every morning and I feel that is doing a

great job of motivating and giving some weaker readers more confidence.

Maths

We have been focusing on our subtraction this week and challenging ourselves with harder

and larger number problems. There are a couple of members of our class who wanted to try

a super challenge and I have provided a few problems which require borrowing from a

larger number.  

(I have given an example of these problems to a few students for homework this weekend,

please do not feel that this has to be completed. I only wish to give them a chance to

challenge themselves.)

Unit of Inquiry

In our unit of inquiry we have expanded on our knowledge of properties of materials to
determine if they sink or float! We used a variety of different objects, named what they were,
what they were made out of and guessed to see if they would sink or float. Most of this was judged
by how heavy the object was and if it was hollow or not.

We also had a few more students start to learn plating and knitting.

We also used pasta to see if we could make a bridge that would support a heavy weight!

Science week

This week at school we explored and celebrated science and experiments!

We went to visit 2nd grade who taught us how sea creatures can be effected by oil spills by trying
to clean up a mini oil spill.

We gave them handmade friendship bracelets to thank them for teaching us!

We also visited a science fair on the 10th floor and got to try lots of different experiments!

Show and Tell


Thank you to Rino for bringing in her toy to share with all of us.

Play time

We enjoyed Playing in the park although it has been getting colder!

Important information

Our field trip is currently being finalised and you should be receive information about it
very soon!

Show and Tell schedule

Taisei - Tuesday December 3rd
Yuito - Thursday December 5th

Week 30

Hello parents of Kindergarten A

I hope you all had an enjoyable and relaxing weekend!

Early Learner Assembly

We had an assembly at the start of the week where we heard about how to protect against germs by coughing or sneezing into our hands or, better yet, our elbows. We helped choose a picture for the recycling bin at school. We learned about playing nicely with others, sharing spaces and we also learned a song too!

Unit of inquiry

This week in Kinder A we continued our study of materials, their properties and how they can be altered and changed to suit different needs.

Maths

We also continued our exploration of bar graphs and how they can be used to show different kinds of data. 

We continued to hone our subtraction and addition skills as well as improving our quick addition skills.

English

In English we have been hard at work with our reading, phonics and improving our writing skills.

We have really been enjoying help our friends with their writing and reading skills too!

Play and exercise

We have really been enjoying playing soccer without our friends in the gym!

We also learned the hula hoop in our PE class!

Music

Everyone has been working hard on improving their musical abilities!

Show and Tell

Noa brought in a favorite doll to show and talk about with us this week.

Important Information

From November 25th we will be celebrating Science week at school. Our class will be learning a science experiment with grade 2 and we are looking forward to what they are going to teach us!

On Friday we are allow to come to school in a science costume!

Raz kids

I will be performing Raz kids level assessments over the next week.

Show and Tell

Ryusei - Wednesday 27th November
Shunya - Thursday 28th November
Taisei - Tuesday 3rd December