Foundation (Prep/Kinder) 2015 - Chat

Well done to your DD GW - I think is great when schools use the assemblies to give the kids a chance to participate and demonstrate really practical skills like speaking in front of an audience. I have heard a few people talk about first 100 days but I don't think they did it at DD's school (I am a bit of a killjoy and think there is way to much celebration these days so wasn't something I was fussed about). DD is still loving school, and is really enjoying the choir afterschool - they are doing Bruno Mars Count on Me and is very cute listening to her teaching it to DS and them both singing it - it wasn't a song I knew so is nice to be introduced to something new too.

She has finally been moved up levels in readers to bring home - I had to prompt them to check, as she just wasn't doing it because not interested as the books were too easy and boring, and they moved her up skipping a level so was right to prompt it seems. She has been a bit more interested with the books she has brought home the past few days as a better level - but still not that interested or she sits there going through it and says "I'm reading it my head mum, like Daddy does" -- mmm not quite what the teachers mean by practicing reading at home. Anyway she is interested in reading other stuff, like lyrics for choir, joke books, or books that are more like dialogue/plays so she can do voices. I can't remember the last time we looked at the sight words but she seems to be moving through the levels rapidly without us so will just let her be on that. She went through the Count on Me lyrics and underlined sight words in the relevant colors - so is just displaying an interest in them in a different way I suppose and I thought that was kind of neat.

Our school assembly is run by the Senior kids, which i think is pretty cool.

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Our school assembly is run by the Senior kids, which i think is pretty cool.

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That's a great initiative! so good for life skills [emoji5]

DS is off tonight at his first school disco! Sounds like drop off was fine, told DH he could go after they bought the glow sticks they had on sale.
He's also moved up reader level this week :) teacher hasn't had a chance I suspect to check his reading skills until this week, we'd suggested in his reading folder that he was reading to go up too. There's 28 in the class with an aide for some of the time.

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DS is off tonight at his first school disco! Sounds like drop off was fine, told DH he could go after they bought the glow sticks they had on sale.
He's also moved up reader level this week :) teacher hasn't had a chance I suspect to check his reading skills until this week, we'd suggested in his reading folder that he was reading to go up too. There's 28 in the class with an aide for some of the time.

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DD went to her first school disco tonight too. We were at work (Camp Australia drop them off and pick them up as Foundation one is at 3:45 - 4:45) so she had to do the whole money and glow sticks bit herself - seems to have done ok but short one dollar :-) . She really enjoyed it.

Our school the senior kids run at least part of the assembly every week I believe and lots of different year levels deliver the sports report which is fun as it is in French so have to listen carefully to work out who won.