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Kindergarten/Boronia Room
We warmly invite all our families and their friends to visit our school and the Kindergarten classroom this Saturday while at the Autumn Fair. Think about volunteering to help on a stall and support the school, it’s never too late.
A big thank you to relief teacher, Soumya Tekkatte for working with the children this week, while I have been unwell.
On Wednesday, the children had a very active and lively lunch play on the verandah due to the wet weather. I constructed a slide, using the play mats and the children came up with inventive and creative ways to play with it. They had so much fun rolling and sliding together.
This week I have included some images of the children working the dough during bread making and some of their artistic creations. Bread baking is possibly one of the all-time favourite activities in the Kindergarten.
Enjoy your weekend and fingers crossed for sunshine on Saturday.
Francine
Class 1/2
Class 1/2 began the week with Annie, collecting mulch and distributing it around our school garden. We then set to work removing pesky weeds from the veggie patch. Several children declared this the best gardening lesson of the year. What determined and dedicated workers we have in Class 1/2!
Amy shared a story in our Dharug language lesson about a child who went fishing in the dhurabang (river). We are thoroughly enjoying our time with Amy each Tuesday. Later in the week we made delicious banana bread. The children measured, mashed and poured to make a tasty afternoon treat. Feel free to send in any trusty recipes that are enjoyed at your place, and we can recreate them here at school.
Class 1/2 have wound up our first Main Lesson of the term, Our Place. This week we explored natural features of our environment and things crafted by humans. We also discussed our rights and responsibilities as members of our school community. We have the right to learn, be safe, spoken to with respect and have our belongings respected. The children participated in roleplays, wrote about and illustrated these values.
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the Harvest Fair this Saturday, the children are so proud of their work and school.
Warmly,
Kath and Class 1/2 Assistants
Class 3/4
Class 3 /4 have been looking at animal architects and how amazing they can be at building homes. We learnt about the clever Gladiator frog, African weaverbird, caddisfly, the beaver, Satin bowerbird, spiders and termites. This has been very popular, and we are looking forward to exploring more animal architects.
We also started on an embroidery project, designed individually and sketched on muslin. This is proving very relaxing and a learning curve for others, as we practise our persistence and slowing our bodies and hands to work.
We are looking forward to the Autumn Fair and also some sun, as it has been a very wet and cold week with limited outside play opportunities. Please remember warm clothes, covered legs, lots of layers and raincoats.
We have been enjoying the story of St Francis and St Claire, and they are certainly living large in the minds of the children at the moment.
We would love any help with craft, if people have time, I know everyone is busy. Afternoons 2-3pm are best for this. Or any craft talents, knowledge, skills you feel you would like to share with the group let me know. Or if you can help me thread the 25 needles multiple times in 30 minutes and sit with those who panic quickly and get tied in knots literally and metaphorically that is also wonderful.
Have a good weekend and stay warm.
Jeneva and Meredith
Class 5/6
As I write this, preparations for our Autumn Fair are happening everywhere around the school. Our class music performance is at 12:30pm this Saturday. The fair is from 10-2pm.
In our classroom, books and other work will be on display. Please come and take a look.
Mare and I are very grateful to the Rocky Knolls, parent band who will be playing alongside the class.
In our lessons, we have been venturing into the depths of the Nile, the insides of pyramids and looking at the mummification process and the notion of being on a ‘Threshold’.
The children wrote beautiful creative writing pieces about Thresholds: the beach, between the ocean and the land, the borders between countries, dawn and twilight, life and death, fences between houses, and being on the threshold of moving from primary school to high school. There are deep and humorous thinkers in the class. You must come and read them on Saturday.
In maths, the children are at various stages: some are working out percentages and decimals, some are working on more of the fundamentals of the four operations, but every day they are practicing 30 questions and graphing them on their own line graphs (last term they used column graphs).
Please note: the class camp has been cancelled due to bad weather and much illness in the class. Thank you to Jess who took the class on Monday when I was sick.
Lunchboxes are being devoured (not literally), but please add extra food. The cold weather seems to promote great hunger, and I am quickly running out of extra food in my classroom larder!
Enjoy the weekend,
Julie and Lee
