This week in maths, Kindergarten have been looking at mass and length. Students first measured their own height and mass. After obtaining these figures, the students needed to arrange themselves from the tallest to the shortest for height and from the biggest number to the smallest number for mass. We learnt that sometimes being the tallest, doesn't always mean you have the largest mass. How interesting! Miss Gill
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KD finally filled the Warm Fuzzies Jar! During Miss Gill's time teaching KD, she has implemented her own reward system for the students--warm fuzzies. The students earnt these fuzzies for their class through good behaviour, staying on task and keeping the classroom neat and tidy. These fuzzies were then used to fill a big jar all the way to the top. Once full, a special reward was promised for this achievement. Last week, KD did it! The jar was full! The students were surprised with a yummy treat--ice-cream with sprinkles. Miss Gill hopes this week ALL of Kindergarten can help fill the jar in time for her last day. A super special reward awaits! Stay tuned...
Maths in Kindy takes on many forms - from counting whilst doing dance moves; spotting patterns in nature and creating our own; exploring fractions whilst cutting up fruit; solving and exploring spatial awareness problems using mobilo, blocks and lego; investigating volume in the sandpit; applying our knowledge of number to solve problems on the ipad, in card games and on work sheets; getting active outside whilst making groups and exploring number bonds; playing various number and board games; making and interpreting graphs; exploring area by making flags; adding, subtracting and posting dominoes; refining our numeral writing skills; applying our knowledge of volume, sequencing, fractions and numbers whilst cooking and soooooooo much more!
We welcome parent helpers during our maths rotations on Tuesdays (12:10 - 1:10), Thursdays (12:10 - 1:10) and Friday mornings from 9 - 10:10am. Please see your child's teacher if you'd like to join us - we have so much fun with maths! Our STEM challenge today reinforced the importance of our drought relief fundraiser - to create something to help our farmers. The criteria we had were: * something to help farmers, their stock or the crops * it had to be easy to use * it could be used over and over again The children's designs reflected the children's understandings of the state of our farmers, and, as always, were very creative. We had a giant dams; various water storage and distribution systems; new, fresh green grass; cattle feeding systems and machines that created water - just to name a few! What a great day we had today! Not only did everyone look wonderful - we had an awesome time dancing together, raised awareness of the plight of our Australian farmers, money to help them, AND we helped to make it rain! Thank you to everyone for your support and generosity. We were fortunate to have a wonderful guest lead our STEM session today. Tying in with our Science unit on Living Things, Dr Katie Moon (Molly's Mum) lead our discussion on how plants are named, classified and recorded. Dr Moon collaborated with the Eurobodalla Botanical Gardens to secure us some cuttings of a variety of native plants. The children had a close look at their features, learned their scientific names, along with their common names, and learned about how they were classified. They then completed identification tags for their cuttings and mounted them on card to create magnificent herbarium specimens. Please take the time to have a peek at them on display in your child's classroom. We extend a huge thank you to Dr Moon, along with Luke at the Bontical Gardens for guiding and assisting our young scientists today. |
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