Developing our Phonemic Awareness

The children have had fun this week discovering the initial phonemes in different words. They played pass the parcel, pulling out different pictures. They had to say the word and then say the initial phoneme for that word. They then went on a phoneme hunt around the classroom. There lots of pictures hidden around the room and they had to find them and stick them on their whiteboard. We then sat back down and everyone took turns to say the word and then the phoneme for their pictures.
The children also had time for a game of THRASS lotto.

Cottage Reflections Term 2 Week 1

Book Club

Dear Parents,

Welcome to Book Club for Term 2.

Thank you for all the support you have given the children and the school with Book Club in Term 1.

The LOOP purchase process is working well and deliveries seem efficient.  Thanks also to the behind-the-scenes Mums who happily assist with distribution. 

Book orders close Sunday 13 May.

Happy browsing.

Darine Groch

Fine Motor Olympics

We have started our Fine Motor Olympics! The children had fun completing different activities designed to help develop their hand and finger strength. The children had to search for jewels in the thera putty, pinch play dough, make block towers using their pinching fingers, use tweezers to pick up different sized beads, use an eyedropper to collect water and make the different pegs snap like a crocodile . The children can hardly wait to do it all again tomorrow.


 

PALS Program

Today the children had their first PALS lesson with Mr Marrett. The PALS Socials Skills Program is an Australian research-based educational program developed by clinical psychologists and early childhood teachers to assist children aged 3 to 6 years of age to develop communication skills and social behaviours. They met Mr Marrett's puppet friends Bob, Moe and Mr Smith. The children had fun learning about to look, smile and say hello.

Welcome to Term 2

Today the children spent the day settling back into school. They said hello to old friends and welcomed a new friend as well. They did lots of sorting and classifying at the light box and with the tiny farm animals. We played a new game 'Silly Safari' which had the children using their visual discrimination skills to find the missing animals.

Open Day