This term, Kindergarten is lucky to be able to use the soccer field, the Sports Centre arena floor, and the upstairs gymnastics equipment room in the Sports Centre for our P.E. lessons.

This week, we had our first gymnastics lesson together with myself and Miss Shara and it was a lot of fun! Gymnastics helps to build physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination and balance. The children explored different ways of travelling (such as bunny hops and crab crawls).

To celebrate the end of their dinosaur topic our Kindergarten children took the short boat ride to Little Water Cay in search of rock iguanas.  Although not actually dinosaurs, these lizards, which are endemic to our islands, do conjure up images of prehistoric life when you see them close up.

The Turks and Caicos Rock Iguana is a protected species.  They are primarily herbivores and feed on berries, leaves and fruit, occasionally supplementing this diet with insects.  They live and sleep in shallow burrows they dig in loose sand or under rocks. In the morning they emerge from their burrows and bask in the sun before going off to feed. At midday, when the sun is the hottest, they retreat into the shade to avoid overheating.

On Little Water Cay the National Trust has built a boardwalk pathway.  Accompanied by a guide, the children followed the trail, saw the iguanas at close range and learned all about them and why they are so special to our islands.

Thank you to everyone who helped make this exciting and interesting trip possible.  Click on to see some photos of their adventure.

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This afternoon, the Kindergarten class invited their parents in to their classroom to show and share with them some of their favourite parts.

Miss Tracy and Ms. Myrna loved seeing the children show so much enthusiasm, happiness and confidence while reading their levelled classroom books and journals to their parents, giving tours of their dinosaur museum, playing favourite Literacy and Numeracy computer games, showing off their awards and explaining how they stay on the ball—one of our classroom displays to encourage helpfulness.

Please read on to enjoy some pictures of the children sharing their learning with their parents at this lovely ‘Open House’ event.  What a special time it was!

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This term, Kindergarten has added a new element to their Literacy programme – they have opened a Listening Centre!  Every two weeks or so, the books and activities will change depending on what they are focusing on in class.  So far, the children have enjoyed listening and reading a dinosaur story called ‘A Long Time Ago’.  After listening and reading, they have rated how much they liked the book and drawn a picture of their favourite part.

It’s been a fun and quiet Literacy activity that the children are have really taken to.  Click on to look at some pictures to see how much fun Kindergarten is having!

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As part of their new topic for this half term, Kindergarten has become emerged in learning and exploring all about dinosaurs! In the past few weeks they have read lots of dinosaur books and come up with dinosaur facts. They have made a dinosaur word wall to help them with all of their journaling and painted really amazing and realistic dinosaurs pictures. They have created a dinosaur museum and acted as tour guides to the visiting Year 3 class.

Making deviled dinosaur eggs was really yummy! Learning all about estimation and ordinal numbers with the help from their toy dinosaurs was really fun. The sand table has become an excavation site where the children have enjoyed digging and sorting dinosaurs and they have even become palaeontologists, uncovering a possible dinosaur fossil in our school yard!

It has been a fun few weeks! Come and take a look at their wonderful dinosaur museum and dinosaur jungles-there are plenty of dinosaur experts and tour guides who would love to show and share their knowledge and excitement with you!

Yesterday, a special family tour was arranged by the kindergartners, to share all the wonderful minibeast topic work that they had been doing this past month.

The room was buzzing (excuse the pun) and the children were really keen and proud to show everyone around and to talk about what they had been learning about.  The tours were very thorough and no areas were left out as they circulated the room.  Parents expressed their thanks and appreciation, and went on to say that it was really lovely to see both the creative side and the more academic areas being explored and covered through this topic.

Well done to Miss Tracy and all the children, and thank you to everyone who came along.  The  Kindergartners’ next topic is ‘families and pets’ and I am sure that in a few weeks time they’ll want to have another tour to share all their learning again.  Until next time…

Searching though some recent photos, I was drawn to this one.  How great to see two buddies, sitting on a rock together in the playground, doing some nature sketching together.   Their teacher, Miss Tracy said that as part of their minibeast topic, the class had been out on a nature walk with Mrs. Catherine around the school yard to look for minibeast homes.  The children had also brought out their books and found quiet areas to sketch and colour. Afterwards, they talked about what they had drawn and labelled their pictures.  Many of the children found leaves with holes in them and speculated that perhaps it was a caterpillar that had made them. Well… they have been learning a lot about caterpillars this week!

Over the course of last week, the Kindergarten class read Hugh Lofting’s Travels of Doctor Dolittle as part of a shared reading/critical thinking skills workshop in Literacy.  As well as answering questions, they also acted out several parts of the book.  Here they are creating a bridge across the mountain.

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