Kindergarten H
The clever children in Kindy H have been exploring and investigating many concepts over the last fortnight. Our Tt week highlight was a teddy bear day where we all brought our own special teddy bear to school for the day. Our bears enjoyed listening to stories, building block towers, going shopping, doing drawings and paintings, and riding around on dump trucks. The teddies did not seem to keen to be photocopied as a part of our art activity, but the children were highly entertained! The day culminated with the teddy bears joining us for a picnic lunch before returning home for their usual antics. The children shared their wonderings about all the things that cheeky teddy bears get up to while we are at school. The imaginative responses included ideas such as sneaking to the kitchen to make a Vegemite sandwich and jumping on the trampoline with mum!
In Religious Education the children have been learning about The Holy Family and who the special people were in Jesus' life when He was growing up. The students have been fascinated when listening to the stories about Jesus in our children's Bible.
Mrs Tucker
Kindergarten H Teacher
Year One
It is WEEK THREE and it is good to be back! The students have been busy this fortnight! We have celebrated our 100th day of SCHOOL! The class played games, which incorporated the number 100 and made crowns to rejoice in their achievements.
This week's news topic was all about our favourite storybooks. The children have shared their books and discussed why it is their favourite and what the story is about. We have completed some reading activities around some of their books. Indyanna shared Roald Dahl’s, ‘The Twits’. We read the first four chapters and the children had to draw a picture of what they thought Mr and Mrs Twit looked like. They loved listening to the story and were shocked at how revolting Mr Twit's beard is because it gets full of food scraps.
During Physical Education we have been learning how to balance on two hands and played wheelbarrow races. We became frogs too when learning how to leap and the children enjoyed making human lily pads and jumping over their class friends.
We are looking forward to the Book Fair next week and cannot wait to see what FABULOUS books are for sale!
Ms Behiels
Year One Teacher
Year Three
The Year Three children have been working with the Year Two children to explore our Big Ideas question, "Where in the world?" We began by looking at how specimens are classified, we even pretended to be taxonomists and classify different animals. We have also started looking at animal life cycles, and we are looking forward to exploring habitats and climate zones over the next few weeks.
In Physical Education this term, we are learning to skip. We have learned single bounce, double bounce, the skier, the bell, as well as the side swing. We have enjoyed using the long rope to see how many times we can jump in a row. It’s not as easy as it looks!
Miss Henderson
Year Three Teacher
Other News
Thank you for the OUTSTANDING support so far with the Scholastic Book Fair. We have already made over $1000 worth of sales. The students all walked through for a special sneak peek on Thursday to select their wish list book. The students also selected a number of books for their Class Wish List. Posters are on display in San Salvador for parents to select if they are interested in making a donation.
Life Week permission slips were due today. Please return as soon as possible if this has not been submitted.
The next Junior School Assembly will be hosted by our Year One students. It is scheduled for Tuesday, 11 August at 2:15pm in San Salvador. We look forward to seeing you there.
A Junior School Liturgy will be held on Wednesday, 19 August in the Parish Church at 9:00am. The Year Three students will be our hosts.
Melissa Croswell
Head of Junior School
7 August 2015
The Year Three children have had a busy week preparing for their Liturgy on the gift of life. They did an amazing job practising their lines and sung beautifully even without the words, due a technical difficulty! The children prepared a lovely reflection on how we can all live life to full but unfortunately their posters were not able to be displayed. I have included them here so you can see them.
The children have been continuing to have lots of fun learning through play! In Religious Education we have been exploring how things grow and change. The children brought in baby photos and we had lots of fun trying to guess who was who when they were just a little bub. We explored how God has given us many gifts and talents and learned that while we couldn't do much as a baby, we can do so much more as we grow and get older. We even wondered about about our futures and had a dress up as a worker day. In our Big Ideas work, we have been exploring how we can care for others. We have spoken about sharing with our friends and treating others with kindness. We have discussed the importance of helping to look after the beautiful world which God has given us, with a big focus on making sure we pick up any rubbish we see laying around our playground. We cannot wait for all our exciting LIFE week adventures next week!
We have had a wonderful few weeks exploring the topic of farms, with the children engaging in a range of activities across all domains of learning linked to the topic. I was particularly impressed with how hard the children were trying with their counting of farm animals and how excited they were to show me their counting.
This week some of the children showed a particular interest in having a go at writing their names, so the next few weeks will see the children provided with opportunities to explore writing and creating their names using a range of materials. They also had a great time creating sound using objects from around the room. After the children explored the different sounds they can make we got out some musical instruments. They had a wonderful time exploring all of the sounds and dancing to the music they created. 
I would like to acknowledge the inspiring walk to Uluru that Mr McKern is embarking on. He has faced some set backs but has overcome them with determination and hope, saying “Grace shines its light on me”.
The clever children in Kindy H have been exploring and investigating many concepts over the last fortnight. Our Tt week highlight was a teddy bear day where we all brought our own special teddy bear to school for the day. Our bears enjoyed listening to stories, building block towers, going shopping, doing drawings and paintings, and riding around on dump trucks. The teddies did not seem to keen to be photocopied as a part of our art activity, but the children were highly entertained! The day culminated with the teddy bears joining us for a picnic lunch before returning home for their usual antics. The children shared their wonderings about all the things that cheeky teddy bears get up to while we are at school. The imaginative responses included ideas such as sneaking to the kitchen to make a Vegemite sandwich and jumping on the trampoline with mum!
