Camboon Primary School News Blog

Welcome back to PP1! The kindy and pre-primary children have been so busy since the last blog. I hardly know where to start!
It was International Science Week recently and we did some interesting things to celebrate. My personal favourite was a bush walk in the school grounds. Camboon is very fortunate to have a large strip of natural bush in our South-Eastern corner. The children were able to safely explore with their magnifying glasses. The only sounds were their happy chatter and the reply from parrots! The reports from this field trip were detailed and colourful.
We have made natural plastic and salt crystals with varying degrees of success! The children who were able to use the microscope were very excited at seeing the crystals. It takes a lot of coordination to look with one eye!
We have a science area set up which includes a 'dark room' where torches can be put to great effect and 'glow in the dark' dinosaurs amaze wide eyes!
We are now learning about space. Miss Vinicombe is showing the children how the sun produces shadows which change at different times of the day.
Parents, you can download this fortnight's programme by clicking on this link.
SPACE program.pdf

Welcome back to Camboon in term 3. I enjoyed seeing the children's eager faces when they returned from their two weeks break.  One of the joys of teaching!
The first two weeks have whizzed passed. The pre primaries had 'A Farmyard on Wheels' visit. The piglet stole the limelight, as usual. Thanks Mrs J for feeding him his baby bottle! Farmer Mick entertained us with his patient band of animals. The kindy children can look forward to the farm next year and to our AWCH visit in week 6. (Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital)
Pushing each other in the wheelchair is usually the favourite activity! More news about AWCH soon.
The children are all working very well. We are well on the way to making a 'Friendly Classroom' and this week Jayden is our first child to visit Mr Jashari because he has a whole row of stickers on the Friendly Classroom chart. Mr Jashari will put Jayden's name in his 'good book'. When Jayden has his name in the book 5  times, he can choose something from the prize cupboard!!!
The children enjoyed acting out Australian animals today. We had some catchy music to 'dance' to. Tomorrow we will look at some examples of aboriginal art and have a try at creating something similar.
Parents, you can click on this fortnight's program here.
IntegOceansECYr1v1~Australia.pdf

Welcome to Preprimary 1/ Kindy C.
You will be pleased to hear we are still busy! We had a wonderful time learning about all the different types of vehicles. Did you know there are domestic, transport, working, emergency and space vehicles? We had fun learning how to sew a vehicle. The teachers got very excited!! The pre primary children made a working vehicle book with Mrs J on Thursday. They are going to choose a kindy kid from Miss Miller's class and read it to them, on Monday 13th June.
Parents, you can click on the fortnight plan which is attached. The plan shows what is happening in all areas and will give you ideas on how you can help your child. I use the theme as a focus for all the social, physical, literacy and numeracy skills that a child will learn in kindy and preprimary.
PEOPLE AT WORK (blog).pdf
Come together K day was wonderful. It made my day when one little girl remarked, 'I'm having so much fun!' I will post some photos, as promised, when we have permission from all parents.
The pre-primary children were so mature in helping the younger children I rewarded them with popcorn and Playschool's On The Move when the kindy children had gone home for the afternoon. Erin was in charge of showing each pre-primary child how to take photos of their group. She did a marvellous job.
The pre-primary and kindergarten children are doing a wonderful job of writing in their diaries.
Each day we choose a relevant topic and illustrate a picture about it. Some children are doing pretend writing, some children are writing all the letters they know, some children are sounding out some words that they know and some children are writing sentences. All of these stages are normal for Kindy and Pre-primary. The children are immersed in the language of literacy everyday - at school and at home. We teach them to make the connection between oral language and written language.
Fun at home: Talk to your child about what you do at work. If you do not go out to work, talk about Grandad's work or Aunty's work. If you are able, take your child to see where you work.
Model and discuss, with your child,  the different types of reading that you do. All types are important but each has a different purpose. A recipe helps you to make a cake, the newspaper helps you to find out what is happening, you read a novel for interest and you read a shopping list to help you remember why you are at the shops!
See you soon, Jo Parker

Welcome to Preprimary 1/ Kindy C.
We have been busy this term learning about Shapes, Families and now Vehicles. You can click on the fortnight plan which is attached. The plan shows what is happening in all areas and will give you ideas on how you can help your child. I use the theme as a focus for all the social, physical, literacy and numeracy skills that a child will learn in kindy and preprimary.
VEHICLE PLAN 2011 2.pdf
The children may have talked to you about their 'plans'. To make concepts easier to understand and more fun to learn, I present them in different ways. Ways that are more appropriate to each child. To do this I use a theory called The Multiple Intelligences. This theory was developed by Dr. Howard Gardner, a prominent psychologist at Harvard University. Dr Gardner identified eight different ways of learning or intelligences. Your child possesses each intelligence, but each one varies in strength. For example, your child might be strong in one or two areas and not as strong in others.
Dr. Gardner identified the following intelligences.
Linguistic (word smart); Musical (music smart); Logical-Mathematical (number smart); Spatial (Picture smart); Bodily-Kinesthetic (body smart); Naturalist (Nature smart); Interpersonal (people smart) and Intrapersonal (self-smart).
I have sets of drawers for the 'intelligences' that I direct the children to use through their 'action plan'. The plan also has other activities for each child.

Thank you to all the parents who have come on roster. As you can imagine there is always plenty to do! It is a good opportunity to see how your child learns in the kindy/preprimary setting. Most parents are surprised at how much we do in half a day.
Edudance is going really well for the Preprimary children. Mrs Sherra is a very vibrant lady and gets everyone enthused. I just have to remember I'm not as young as I used to be!! I'm sure you will love the concert at the end of term.
On Wednesday, 1st June I have organised the Come Together K Day! where the three kindy classes will meet and celebrate being a kindy kid! We will have some fun activities. Keep watching the blog for some pics of the day.
Fun at home: Your child could help make a picture book of transportation by cutting pictures out of magazines, adverts or newspapers.
We are comparing modes of transport at school - you could do this while out in the car.
See you soon, Jo Parker :) 

Mrs Rawson wants to say a big "THANK YOU" to everyone for making her last day at Camboon a wonderful day.  Especially the staff for the lovely morning tea and the gluten free goodies, a special thank you, to Mrs Ienco for the yummy orange and almond cake you made it was delicious!