Kangaroo Group

3.5 years to 5 years

Kangaroo Room – Room Routine

6.30am – 8.30am	Centre opens. All ages combined indoor / outdoor play
8.30am – 9.40am	Possums and Koalas separate to own playground
9.40am – 9.45am	Kangaroo playground to be tidy, wash hands for morning tea
9.45am – 10.00am	Morning Tea
10.00am – 10.15am	Group Time – flash cards, choosing activities, show and tell
10.15m – 11.45am	Inside Play – planned and spontaneous activities
11.45am – 12.00pm	Pack up
12.00am – 12.15am	Group Time – Music, Transition to lunch
12.15pm – 12.45pm	Lunch Time
12.45pm – 2.00pm	Rest Time
2.00pm – 2.30pm	Quiet activities
2.30pm – 2.40pm	Group Time – Story Time, Sunscreen, Transition to afternoon tea
2.40pm – 3.00pm	Afternoon Tea
3.00pm – 5.00pm	Outside play
5.00pm – 5.30pm	All children combine in Kangaroo playground
5.30pm – 6.30pm	Inside play, children combined
6.30pm	Centre closed

This is only a guide and is flexible to children’s needs and interests.

Kangaroo Room – Short Term Goals

Term 1

• To encourage children to use the toilet independently
• To teach children about personal hygiene
• To teach children to respect their friends, teachers and toys
• To assist children to separate from parents easily
• To ensure children are happy
• To recognize their own name in written form
• To learn honesty and good manners when appropriate

Term 2

• To recognize their own belongings and be responsible for them
• To use manners without prompting
• To encourage children to choose activities of their own choice
• To use language to express needs and wants
• To participate in whole group activities
• To be familiar with room routine and the rules of our room
• Name art work with premade written labels
• Look after our resources and return them to their correct places

Term 3

• To develop friendship with children
• To be able to name friends and classmates
• To recognize basic concepts
• To write their name on their own art work
• To display caring attitudes to friends and peers
• To develop the self confidence needed to attempt new skills
• To be able to interact positively with other people

Term 4

• To encourage children to write their own names
• To recognize left from right
• To be able to put shoes and socks on their correct feet
• To spend time focused on activities to develop concentration and attention span
• To display school readiness skills, sounds, letters, number recognition
• To have adequate fine motor control to use pencils and scissors
• To be able to look forward to the idea of starting school

Kangaroo Room – Long Term Goals

Cognitive

• Name the days of the week
• Retell stories or events
• Follow three step directions
• Recognize shapes
• Recognize and name colours
• Can count to 20+
• Recognize numbers to twenty
• Recognize own name and can tell full name on request
• Point to and name body parts
• Remember words to songs and finger plays
• Match pictures
• Classify objects by size, shape and colour
• Complete puzzles
• Can tell address
• Can make patterns with blocks or beads

Emotional and Social

• Will participate in 10 minute carpet time
• Respect other people and their property
• Develop a sense of fairness
• Will develop and follow class “rules”  and guidelines
• Greet adults and friends
• Learn to express feelings through language
• Show affection
• Prefer to play with friends rather than engage  in solitary play all the time
• Share toys and resources with others
• Engage in dramatic play with roles
• Have the skills to communicate needs to teachers and friends
• Help at tidy up time
• Actively care about their classmates

Fine Motor

• Drawing – can hold drawing materials in tri pod grip, objects, people and basic shapes
• Painting – some wrist action in painting and can grip apparatus using, thumb, fingers and palm
• Threading – objects onto string
• Cutting – along straight and curved lines
• Turn pages of a book
• Develop hand-eye coordination through digging, pouring, carrying, pick up objects and manipulating play dough
• Can increase sensory abilities through various textures
• Hand dominance is fairly well established
• Build structures from models

Gross Motor

• Walk backwards, heel to toe
• Walk along balance beam
• Skip using alternative feet
• Catch a ball with hands
• Jump from small height
• Jump forwards and backwards
• Climb ladders and A frames
• Hop on one foot
• Kick a ball
• Bounce and catch big ball

Language

• Increase vocabulary – 1500 words or more
• Tell a familiar story while looking at pictures in a book
• Defines simple words by function
• Recognize the humour in simple jokes
• Produce sentences with 5 to 7 words
• State the name of own town, birthday and parents name
• Answer telephone appropriately
• Use would and could appropriately
• Use please and thank you
• Use past tense of irregular verbs consistently
• Use past tense inflection to make regular verbs

Self Help Skills

• Can make choices
• Care for and identify belongings
• Pack away and use equipment appropriately
• Take responsibility for own toileting
• Attempt personal grooming skills
• Dress self completely

Assert themselves (seek assistance or help others)