Teddy Bears, Descriptive Language and Active Students!

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 100^th 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