Week 8 in K2

UWC Day

We all had a fantastic day on Wednesday to celebrate UWC Day! Continuing our work on 'Materials', we went to the Botanic Gardens to search and investigate the different materials from which things are made. To assist our children, we were delighted to have some Grade 11 and 12 students with us for the day, who brought a wonderful element of fun and excitement to our activities. 

In small groups, they walked around the gardens identifying what things are made of, talking about the materials and taking photos using their iPads. So that the teachers did not have twenty photos of the same thing from one child's iPad in our photo streams (and this does happen!), the older students helped edit the photos, too. There were snack and drink stops along the way and time to play hide and seek, and tag in the large open spaces.  

In the afternoon, the K2 children were thrilled to have their new buddies come to the classrooms and play with them in Discovery Time.

For a snapshot of the many activities that happened throughout day across the school, please click here.

Writing Workshop

As teachers we are very excited about our Writing Workshops and witnessing the growth and development in the children’s skills. Our main focus for this year is to develop each child’s confidence, so that he/she is able to read and write on his/her own, to the best of his/her ability.

Your child will be bringing home the books that he/she has made so far. These are for you to keep at home. Celebrate all the things your child can do with his/her drawing and writing. Be positive and praise all the effort that has gone into thinking of what the books are going to be about, the drawing and the writing.

Maths 

During our Shape unit, we have been exploring the following key questions:

• Which words or vocabulary do I know to describe shapes?
• Which new words or vocabulary do I need to describe shapes?
• How can I sort these shapes?
• Can I combine shapes to make new shapes?
• Can I recognise and create patterns with shapes?

We have been finding and describing objects in the environment using names of shapes, both 2D and 3D (squares, hexagons, circles, triangles, rectangles, cubes, cones, cylinders, spheres).

Being able to describe a shape can be challenging and we will be introducing mathematical language to help describe both 2D and 3D shapes eg flat/not flat, sides (curved, straight), corners, edges, faces. The children will be matching and sorting the shapes and becoming more familiar with their names.

Swimming

When your child is swimming at school, please may we ask that he/she comes to school in his/her PE kit only. We are having a number of children who have full swimming costumes on underneath their PE clothes. As we do not swim until 11:30am, it makes going to the toilet a lot harder than it needs to be. It also means many of the children are too hot during morning play time. We thank you for your help and support.

Stick Man! - Theatre Trip

On Thursday we will be going to see 'Stick Man!' The theatres can sometimes be cold so please put your child's school cardigan in his/her bag if your child may need it.

Dress Up Day

October 31 will be a Dress Up day in the Infants. Although it is Halloween and some children will want to come dressed as witches or skeletons, your child can come dressed up in any costume he/she is happy to wear e.g. a cowboy, pirate, fairy or princess. Anything goes, as long as it is practical for a normal school day so no masks or restrictive clothing please!

Please note!

Monday 6 October is a Public Holiday so the College is closed. We look forward to seeing all the children again on Tuesday morning.

There will no eBrief on Friday 11 October. The next eBrief and K2 Blog will be on Friday 24 October.

The K2 Team