Kindergarten is a year of great learning, across many areas. There are big adjustments to be made and not all of them come easily to all children. We focus heavily on supporting and guiding children in our care through this very important year of schooling.

We create opportunities for the children to strengthen their skills in cooperation, empathy and to listen to other’s ideas, both inside and outside of the classroom. These are also great opportunities to develop their oral language skills. We work hard on being good collaborators and engage the children in many learning experiences that require them to work as a team.  

In anticipation of our visit to Our Mates Farm this week, the children worked in small groups to create their own farms. We could hear them chatting about the different things that they needed on their farms such as, a dam, vegetable garden, pigs and an orchard. One group worked on a separate project whilst this was happening, where they created the most magnificent fairy home, which is something they had shown interest in after making our fairy garden. We worked alongside the groups and guided them through the collaborative process.