The Kindy boys have settled into the Aquinas community and the routines of school very quickly.

This term the boys have been investigating how things grow and change. We have been watching our Monarch butterfly eggs hatch into caterpillars and we were lucky enough to watch a caterpillar making a cocoon. We have planted seeds in our sensory garden and looked at how the leaves change in Autumn.

Nurse Jo from the Hospital WA program came to visit us in Week 6. The Incursion Program is designed to prepare young healthy children for possible hospitalisation or visits to the doctor or dentist. The aim is to minimise anxiety, fear and misconceptions children may have about medical intervention. The boys enjoyed playing with the medical equipment and watching Jo demonstrating and role-playing what might happen if the boys should need to go to the hospital. We have enjoyed playing in the hospital in our dramatic play area.

Our Talk 4 Writing book is ‘The Gingerbread Man’. The Kindy boys baked some delicious gingerbread but were amazed to find the gingerbread had disappeared while they were cooling on the kitchen bench. We made ‘Lost’ posters and placed them around the Junior School. Luckily, we had some CCTV of the gingerbread running out of the Kindy classroom and the boys were able to track the Gingerbread Men down in Year Two. We spent the afternoon decorating our Gingerbread and they were delicious.