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Kindergarten/Boronia Room
The Kindergarten children are busy preparing for their upcoming Spring Festival. They have chosen their parts in the Spring Circle they will be presenting on the day. The children are very excited to be showing their work to their family and friends. A shared morning tea will follow the Spring Circle, so everyone is encouraged to bring a wholesome plate of food to share.
Our beautiful student teacher, Rose Maling will complete her placement with us this Friday. Rose has brought many special teaching moments to the children during her stay, singing Spring songs and finger plays, telling story, and helping the children to sew a butterfly finger puppet, just to name a few of her completed activities. We thank Rose for her involvement in the Kindergarten and wish her well with her continued studies and journey to become a Steiner teacher.
This week the children planted their chosen flowers that were ordered by Annie for the flower garden the Kindergarten children are creating outside of our playground. We are all very excited to see these plants grow, flourish, and bloom. The Springtime rain will really help our young plants to settle into their new home.
Have a great weekend.
Francine
Class 1/2
We began our week with a local bush walk, thank you to Kindergarten for joining us on our adventure. Hooray for Martin for leading us in our walk and driving the bus (the bus ride is always an excursion highlight). The children used their will and strength to climb rocks and navigate the track, we picnicked and played by the waterfall, crawled across fallen logs and observed our local flora and fauna. We marvelled at our pristine local bush and felt grateful for the gorgeous Spring weather.
In Spelling this week we have been practicing using the “magic e”, words such as lake, anticipate and Jake! Hopscotch, writing on our friends’ back and playing whisper around the garden are all fun ways to consolidate our skills. Our Mathematics focus this week has been subtraction. The children have been taking numbers away using counters, ten frames and sticks on the playground.
Class 1/2 continue to practice projecting their voices in drama games and speaking together in chorus. We are looking forward to sharing our class play with our community next Thursday, 18 September at 6 pm. Thank you to our wonderfully talented parents and families who have been busy preparing costumes for the big night!
Enjoy a restful weekend!
Warmly,
Kath
Class 3/4
There is a family story that my sisters still tease me about. When I was in Year 3 I came home from school and wrote on a scrap of paper, holding it dramatically aloft in the kitchen “I lost my voice”. As a teacher, in the many occasions since when my voice has gone with an illness. I am met with affectionate family tease – “Oh no, so you lost your voice, too bad.”
On Wednesday last week I was whispering and by Thursday I taught with key word (Auslan) sign all day. Before succumbing to the ludicrousness of it all and deciding I need to stay home and rest and recover and find my voce, perhaps hiding under my pillow! It did remind me of the beauty of Auslan and the power of gesture, but I will return to that serendipitous re-emerging of knowledge later.
Fortunately, Sayoko, Soumya, Amy, Jess, Kath, and Julie have cared for the class 3/4 this week while I am home.
The children continued exploring the main lesson “Music, Maypole and Merriment.” This has involved looking at Spring celebrations around the world, including Holi, and the cherry blossom festival. The children have also looked at musical notation. Thanks to Julie, Martin and Kath’s efficiency and kindness the maypole practice has been able to continue. And I am told they are doing wonderfully.
The maypole started to appear in my dreams. The twisting ribbons, the children’s laughter, the sky overhead, the enchanting music, the skipping feet. Seasonal acknowledgement is a beautiful basis for childhood and ongoing adult connectivity to nature, cycles, and growth.
Our lovely Meredith is not returning to school until next term. Her doctor has advised she needs to rest at home to get strong again.
Warm regards and hope to be back in the classroom soon.
Jeneva
Class 5/6
We have fallen back into familiar territory – having the class altogether after a busy week in Canberra for Year 6 and in class project work for Class 5 with Soumya.
We are into our Physics Main Lesson, experimenting with sound and acoustics and next week, optics and heat. It is a fun hands-on lesson, and we are learning how our perception of the world is deepened through these experiences.
Music practices for our Spring Festival are going well. We hope you can come along too, on the last day of school.
With this incredibly changeable weather, raincoats on standby would be a great help.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me julie@bluemountainssteiner.nsw.edu.au
Have a lovely weekend,
Julie and Lee
