Kindergarten
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Welcome back to Term 4. The information below will outline the Term 4 curriculum and provide some useful information about the term ahead.
Each day, quality literature will support the girls’ understanding of imaginative and informative writing styles. To enhance their oral language and communication skills, Kindergarten students will demonstrate active listening in following instructions and asking relevant questions. The girls will continue to prepare and deliver short news items on a fortnightly basis.
Through the InitiaLit program, students will continue to review letter-sound correspondence and will be introduced to new digraphs to support their spelling. The girls will enjoy engaging with quality storybooks throughout the term. They will learn three new vocabulary words per book and complete activities to help them understand when and how to use those words. They will also discuss the themes surrounding the book and learn how stories relate to their own world. These sessions will provide opportunities for students to use new vocabulary, develop good listening comprehension and a love of literature.
Within Writing, students will continue to compose simple texts about familiar aspects of the world and their own experiences. They will write sentences using their knowledge of sound blends and tricky words when spelling with an additional grammatical focus on nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, conjunctions and correct punctuation. Students will continue to learn about the features of informative texts where they will learn to describe animals and their characteristics.
This term, Kindergarten students will consolidate Early Stage 1 concepts in the areas below. The girls will continue to ask questions and use known facts to explore mathematical problems and develop fluency with mathematical ideas. They will use everyday language, concrete materials and informal recordings to demonstrate understanding. The girls will consolidate their oral counting skills, use concrete materials to model addition and subtraction and continue to develop strategies to support them in quick arithmetic. There will be regular opportunities for problem solving and reasoning that will assist the students to work mathematically.
This term, Kindergarten students will continue to define the characteristics and needs of living and non-living things. There will be a particular focus on animals’ needs and their habitats. Students will also explore the characteristics and needs of plants. They will identify and observe how plants and animals respond to changes in the environment. Students will use the design process to identify problems and create solutions.
In Term 4, Kindergarten will build upon their knowledge from the previous term’s work about places. They will also learn to recognise the significance of location, spatial distribution and the ways people organise and manage the spaces in which they live. The girls will explore how the location of places can be represented on maps. They will acquire information by observing, reading and listening to texts. The girls will reflect on their learning from the findings of their inquiry.
In Term 4, the girls will learn more colours while learning about Halloween characters. They will learn to say what something is and what colour it is. For example: C’est une sorcière. Elle est noire.
Each Friday the girls will have a Library lesson where they are introduced to literature and independently select their own books for borrowing. This term, the girls will be introduced to the series we have in the Library for early readers such as School of Monsters by Sally Rippin and Ella and Olivia by Yvette Poshoglian. The girls will participate in Hillingdon Bingo which encourages the girls to read widely, using both hard copy books as well as Story Box Library. Access Story Box Library from any device with our Ascham login: https://storyboxhub.com (Username: Ascham, Password: storybox).
In Music, students will participate in singing, moving, listening and performing activities to help consolidate the skills that they have learned throughout the year, developing their awareness of the musical concepts. They will continue to develop their music writing skills by notating known songs in simple music notation. They will learn to play some simple songs on the xylophone. The students will also prepare and perform songs and dances as part of the Hillingdon Open Day.
During Term 4, students will experience PE lessons focusing on Ball Skills, Swimming and Dance. In Personal Development and Health (PDH), students will learn about Healthy, Safe and Active Lifestyles including nutrition and sun safety.
The Summer (Term 1 and Term 4) Sports uniform comprises:
In Term 4, students will learn about the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh and create an artwork in response to his painting, The Starry Night. Students will explore the work of artist, Ken Done, and produce their own artworks about special places in Australia. Key skills and experiences related to mixed-media, craft, collage, colouring, cutting and drawing were covered.
Students will continue to have a reader each night. The girls are expected to read their book aloud to an adult. Readers go home on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Additionally, the girls are expected to revise the weekly set of tricky (high frequency) words each evening. This is also a good time to ask your daughter about the letters and sounds that she has been learning to help her consolidate her knowledge. For Mathematics, counting backwards from a given number and identifying numbers that come before or after a given number would be beneficial. The girls can also log on and use Matific. Homework is expected to be no more than 10-15 minutes each evening.