The 4 Year Old Programme is now situated in Room 5 with Mrs Murphy. This is a programme run for the next 8 - 10 students due to start at our school.
We start at 9am and go through to the end of break one at 11.40am. Students are then returned back to their kindergartens or picked up by a parent/caregiver.
Parents are asked to bring a piece of fruit for fruit break at 10am and then some food for break one at 11am.
Our learning goals before we start school are:
To follow classroom routines
To be able to write our name
To be able to count to 10 and back
To be able to say the sounds of the letters in the alphabet.
In the 4 year old programme we do a range of activities to help students achieve these goals.
Crossing The Brain
In our four year old programme we have been learning to cross the left and right side of the brain. We put balls from one bucket to the other using one hand. We had a race to see who could do it the fastest. We then practised our counting to 10 by putting the correct amount of balls into the bucket.
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Week Four
This week we focused on the letter b. Mrs Murphy gave us all a big letter b. We had to fill it in with pictures that started with the letter b. On our letter we have a belt, bear, bottle, bike and baby. We did a fantastic job at finding all these pictures that start with the letter b.
F F Fish
On our first week for 2012 we looked at the sound the letter F makes. We are very good at saying 'fff'
We then read a story about The Rainbow Fish and decorated our own fish. We had a lot of fun using a range of different collage materials. We are going to keep practising the sounds that the letters make at home.
We then read a story about The Rainbow Fish and decorated our own fish. We had a lot of fun using a range of different collage materials. We are going to keep practising the sounds that the letters make at home.
Counting
In the four year old programme we are learning to count to 10 and back. We have been using dice to achieve this. Last week we played a game. Mrs Murphy would call out a number and we had to try and roll it on our dice. It was fun. Then we used our new whiteboards to write our numbers correctly.
Writing Our Name
Each week in the 4 year old programme we do a lot of work with our name. This is so that when we start school we are able to recognise and write our own name. Miss Monk gave us some NEW magnetic letters, so we tired them out. Can you find your name again?
SCHOOL VISITS
Four weeks before your child is due to start school you will receive a letter to tell you what is involved for the school visits. This will include what room your child will be in, the length of each visit, who your child's teacher will be, etc. Click on the link below to view the letter that we send out to parents.
| school_visits_letter_to_parents.doc |
