Term 3 Week 4

House Keeping

• Congratulations to Lucas you have show you are a communicator. You have used your active listening skills to listen to the ideas of others and you have used your speaking skills to communicate your ideas clearly. You have also shown you are responsible as you take on leadership roles in your classroom. Well done!
• Thank you to all the parent who have volunteered for our Airport Field trip this coming Thursday 12 May. If you are taking the bus with us could you please meet us at the car pick up area no later than 10:55am. We are hoping to leave by 11am. If you are meeting us at the airport could you please email me to let me know. 
• Remember to check our Parent Helper Folder to see when your child's News Telling turn is. 

This Week's Highlights

This week the children have begun practising for their Arts Festival with their Music Teacher. They have been doing such a great job, practising their songs and dances. We are so proud of them!

We continue to look into life in the Jungle. Some girls had a long conversation about what could be found under ground in the jungle. We have some very knowledgeable children. 

An excerpt of a very interesting conversation...

Lily "The flowers that fall down and rotten on the soil because then they're dead. It helps other flowers grow. Rotten flowers make food for the other flowers."

Lizzie "You know all the stems go under ground." 

Lily  "Let's draw the stems then. You know roots go underground."

Lizzie "Roots and stems are the same thing." 

Lily "The roots are attached to the stems and they're all squiggly."

A group of children also looked at how to create specific colours when painting using a colour wheel. 

Taking turns to add the paint needed. 

Checking the colour is the one they wanted to make on the colour wheel. 

After using paint brushes and sponges to paint it was decided that hands are a lot more fun to use!

Taking responsibility for their tools by washing them after. 

We had some Tech Experts in our class this week teaching their peers about how to expand on their Puppet Pal stories.

Thank you to Finn for sharing your news confidently with us this week. You answered everyone's questions very clearly and thoughtfully.  

Thanks to Simon for being our Mystery Reader. 

Thank you to Soumee and Hilda for braving the rain to be our Sandpit Helpers this week. Thanks for the photos too!