Red Group Report
21/10/2021
As always happens in Term Four we all wonder, “where did the year go?” Which prompts us to look back on all that has happened so far with our amazing Red Group children. A time to reflect on how they have changed during the year – socially, emotionally and physically. I’m pretty sure some of the children grew a few centimetres taller in the holidays too. 😊
With the hot weather returning we have introduced water play each day. As well as cooling us down, water play is a wonderful open-ended learning opportunity to explore volume, gravity, improve eye/hand co-ordination and many other skills. For the Red Group children, it’s just plain fun and a great way to socialize with our friends. We will be offering it most days, so please remember to pack an extra t-shirt.
We all had a turn at making vinegar and bicarb soda volcanoes last week, it was lots of fun and very exciting when it bubbles over the edge and down the volcano mountain. We discovered that the Blue Group Kindy children had made a web out of wool, which we decided needed lots of insects, so the spider would have something to eat.
We did some “Magic Painting”, using a wax candle to draw with first, then we painted over with water colour paint to “reveal” the picture.
This week we made some delicious smelling Ginger spice playdough, which was fun to make and so nice to play with fresh, soft dough. We used some pipettes to transfer water from one container to another, engaging our hand muscles and using fine motor skills.
Up at the swings there is a new ladder that is challenging us to climb and test how far we can go. Can you get to the very top? The beaming smiles, when they achieve something they were unsure of, are priceless.
Friendships are blossoming as children actively seek out their friend or friends to play a game with or do some cooking in the sand pit.
To help the children transition to “big” kindy next year we have started to introduce some of the kindy routines they will encounter next year. During snack time we have introduced the three-bin system for all waste/rubbish at kindy. The yellow bin is for recyclable materials and used cutlery, the green bin is for food scraps that are suitable for our worm tower or compost bin and the red bin is for any rubbish that can’t be recycled or reused.
Red Group children will have a special job this Term, creating a homemade gift for their families for Christmas. We will work on the gift during the last four weeks of the Term. Red group also has an end of year Break Up party which will be on Tuesday 7th of December, from 1:00 pm till 2:30 pm.
There are plenty of available Roster Days available if you would love to spend the afternoon with Red Group, we would love you to come and play.
