Junior Kindergarten Room (3-4 years)

So far, Term 3 has been an extremely busy time in the Junior Kindy room. Our interest in the natural environment and insects has continued and many of our learners can be seen using magnifying glasses and bug catchers, exploring the outdoors as well as our nature interest table in the room.

At the beginning of the term, we celebrated NAIDOC week, which was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate our Aboriginal Indigenous culture. We read a variety of Dream Time stories, tried different styles of painting inspired by Aboriginal artwork and learned an Indigenous lullaby. One of our favourite stories is “Tiddalick the Frog who caused a flood” and the children have enjoyed retelling the story using felt pictures.

Gardening has been very popular in the Junior Kindy room over the past few weeks with many children wearing gardening gloves, using different garden tools and wheelbarrows to dig and weed our Kindy yard. We have begun planting into our raised garden beds as well as potted a variety of herbs for our veranda, which we enjoy smelling during our meal times. We are looking forward to our strawberries and capsicums growing and have begun deciding what other plants we would like to grow in our second garden bed. To assist us with our gardening, we had a very special visitor from the Sunshine Coast Council come to help us set up our worm farm. We were extremely excited to receive 1000 worms and have begun saving our fruit and vegetable scraps for them. We are learning about the importance of reducing our waste in order to create a more sustainable environment.

Ms Sarah Arthur, Kindy Teacher