Please remember we have no school Friday 29th April and Monday 2nd May. Enjoy this extra time with your children. To our teacher parents: Have a productive PD tomorrow.
Congratulations Mya Jade for receiving Kaz this weekend. You have shown true determination and resilience when writing. You have also shown respect to your friends and teachers when in discussions during meeting times by using your listening ears, looking eyes and by taking turns to talk.
I may need some mum and dad volunteers for May 12th from roughly 11am - 1pm. Nothing has been confirmed as yet however, if you are currently free that day could you please continue to try to keep it free. I will need about 10 volunteers. Watch this space. Thank you!
This Week In Class
We had some very excited children this week in class! We did need a few moments to stop and take some deep breathes to calm ourselves down. We continued having discussions about friendships, using caring voices and hands when with others.
Airports and Animals
For the next few weeks our main two inquiries in class are likely to be around the concept of systems, responsibilities and relationships through the lens of Airports and Animals. This week the children began tuning into what they know about animals and their habitats. They watched videos, read books and used their 100 languages to communicate their knowledge.
Watching Disney Oceans - Drawing and talking about what they see.
Interacting with the same video using white blocks and puppets.
Brainstorming what animals like to live together.
Brainstorming what types of places animals like to live.
Making a home for a polar bear.
Looking inside a fish.
Next week we will begin to build on a jungle in our class. If you have any jungle themed materials or items, you no longer want or need feel free to drop them off to us.
Thank you to Wilbur and Artemis for being our first two ReJ Communicators.
Talking about a family photo and fish and chips!
Explaining who the people in her family are using a family tree.
"Any questions?"
We saw some really thought out work in the Investigation Journals again this week. So proud of our K1 writers!
Thank you to our Parent Helpers this week: Soumee and Tiana. It seemed like you both had a lot of fun with the children at Make and Take. Thank you too, to Armaan's grandma for taking these photos. Thank you for braving the sandpit for us too!
Thank you to our Mystery Reader: Luca (Leone's Dad) for your book about the lion.
I've added a link to our blog this week that will take you to an interesting and hopefully helpful article about dealing with aggressive or defiant behaviour at home. At this time of year, children will often begin testing the boundaries because they know they are moving up in the school. They are no longer the 'little kids' and what to be treated as such, at the same time they still need mum and dad. This can be a very conflicting and frustrating mix for them and you. I hope this article helps give you some strategies and insights.
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