Bookmobile visit

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We make a visit to the bookmobile each year in first term; it’s parked just over the road from our kinder, and a short walk to practise our road safety. The children respond with interest, even absorption, to people with the important job of “librarians” telling them a story and giving them a tour of the truck. We prepared by trying to think about questions we could ask, and we reflected on our visit by drawing and dictating language as well as by writing a group letter to say Thankyou. Signing their names is a challenge for many of the children at this stage of the year, and makes our letter really meaningful to them.

Mrs WishyWashy

Lexi said, ” this is my favourite story” when we read it and played with it at the storytable this week. Why is Mrs WishyWashy so successful with kinder children? The book has clear, engaging ilustrations, it has animals, it uses sequencing which is then repeated ( giving the children a strong sense of recognition of what happens, and control in telling the story for themselves), it uses a familiar domestic situation but turns it on its head, they can usually recognise the lure of that mud puddle, and there is humour, always a winner. And it’s not a long story, but perfect in its dimensions.

After they had read and played it, they turned it into a puppet show, with some lovely collaboration, Arlee corrected  Ally matter of factly when she got out of sequence in retelling it, and Will injected some appropriate extra speech for Mrs WishyWashy: “Oh dearie me, oh dearie, dearie me.”

Chanelle was the book shower and occasional narrator.

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Welcome to Mie

We have a new helper at kinder sometimes. Her name is Mie and she is from Japan. Today she told us a little bit about Japan.

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She also showed us how to make some animals by folding paper. We used big paper, not true origami paper.

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And we practised using chopsticks! We are looking forward to learning lots more from Mie, and teaching her about Australia as well. Thanks for coming to our kinder!

 

Leaf creatures

IMG_3565IMG_3586We noticed the autumn leaves this week, they are changing color and falling – and the grape vine leaves are especially beautiful so we offered some natural items, sticks, bark, flowers, gumnuts and some goggly eyes – and leaf creatures were born!
Fine motor skills were strengthened by picking up and placing a range of sized items including individual petals; using a fine brush to place the glue; and drawing some of of our ideas. Our imaginations were sparked and some recurring interests appeared again, such as birds and nests, but also knowledge of nature, such as the fact that Kai’s creature was using camouflage to hide. And of course, we talked about our creations, developing language and revealing special uses of words to express meaning. One child’s tree was “long” – leading to talking about when something is long and when it is high or tall. Some children really developed a story about their creature while others were content to say little and let their art speak for them.

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