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Kindergarten/Boronia Room
This week with the help of Annie, the Kindergarten children started to plant in a new garden bed, designed to grow flowers for our classrooms and special occasions. Each child has been asked to choose a special flower from a coloured catalogue to plant and cultivate. We cannot wait to help them grow and flower!
So much happens in the Kindergarten on a Wednesday. After our gardening session with Annie and story time, we invited the visiting Japanese students to join us in our baking time. We sang our baking songs and shared out the dough and everyone squeezed, rolled, and shaped their dough together. It did not take long before all the students were finding ways to laugh and enjoy being with each other. We had to keep extending the time for Martin to pick up the visitors, as no one was in a hurry to move on to their next activity.
What a joy it was to have such kind and open-hearted students visit our school.
Wishing everyone a happy weekend.
Francine
Class 1/2
Our school has been drenched in Winter sunshine, perfect timing for our visitors from Nasukarasuyama Junior School. It was a joy to watch all the children playing, bush walking and making origami together. What a wonderful opportunity to spend time with new friends.
Our school grounds are looking very tidy as Paul has been busy beautifying and this week, Class 1/2 helped to distribute mulch around the gardens. Shovelling, carting, and caring for our school are all most satisfying tasks for Class 1/2. The happy chickens have already produced 14 eggs so keep posted for our next cooking lesson.
The Four Helpers brought the Mathematics processes to life in our first Main Lesson for the term. We shared dough, counted groups of crystals in arrays, added pinecones, and subtracted fruit. As this Main Lesson comes to a close, we continue to consolidate Mathematics facts and processes in our daily practice lessons.
We were fortunate to have Julie lead our music lesson this week, introducing some catchy folk tunes and a Scottish country dance to move us into the spirit for our upcoming Main Lesson, Celtic Tales. We are also enjoying playing our recorders, individually, in pairs and as a group. Well done Class 1/2!
Enjoy a restful weekend,
Kath and Class 1/2 Assistants
Class 3/4
It has been an incredible week of different adventures.
We played in the pine forest, had Futsal Gala at the Aquatic Centre, had a whole school bushwalk to Turtle Rock, walked the cross-country track, and had an origami workshop hosted by the Japanese students.
On top of this we baked bread, another circus lesson, Italian, Dharug, practised the maypole, and permaculture.
We looked at how the Blue Mountains were formed and wrote our first stanzas for poems exploring where we are from.
We drew broad bean plants and discussed what makes animals domesticated or wild.
We practised recorder songs and continued our long stitch.
We sang “Home Among the Gumtrees,” made natural weave baskets, and explored wood burning and Japanese watercolour paintings.
It has been lovely to have some sunny days of clear blue skies where the world has looked so sublimely beautiful.
Have a good weekend. Spring cannot be far away now!
Jeneva and Meredith
Class 5/6
The term is rolling by so fast! Every day is full. I think about what we get done in a day and I am often quite impressed with what your children produce. Morning Circle, including playing an instrument and singing, reciting verses and movement exercises, dancing, circus, spelling, literacy exercises, maths, draft writing, listening to stories, publishing self-devised pieces, craft, chess, touch typing, and drawings with foci.
Lee works with the literacy support groups every day and supports children in class with all aspects of their work. As well as toasting toasties at lunch. Days are full, lively, and chatty – sometimes very chatty! But this is also the time for rich friendships, learning and refining skills and getting ready for the next leap forward.
As the year progresses, I am realising these are the last few months for the Class 6 children to experience being a primary school child. In light of this, Francine has invited the Class 6 children to spend a day in the Kindergarten (they will go in pairs), as a way of revisiting the feeling of the younger years and being in a different realm. It is a warm nurturing feeling to be in the kindergarten with Francine, a feeling that will stay with them as they journey on to new pastures.
Please note: Class 6 have received a note about their end of year presentations. They will need to return their proposal by the date on the form.
Our class was so warm and welcoming to our Japanese high school visitors this week. It was beautiful to see everyone having such a nice and enriching time together.
Have a lovely weekend,
Julie and Lee
