The hot topic of discussion recently has been about teeth falling out!
We have a few children with wiggly teeth, and Carmella just lost her first tooth!
There have been many ideas put forwards about what happens after teeth fall out... the tooth fairy has been the main idea - it seems that the tooth fairy brings different items to different children.
The children wanted to find out more - so we read 'I lost my tooth in Africa'... it seems in Africa you get a chicken for your tooth. Since none of us have received a chicken before - we kept on looking.
We then found a book called 'Throw your tooth on the roof' by Selby Beeler.
This books told us about tooth traditions from around the world.
It was a great book, and the children came to the conclusion that many different things happen to teeth.. some people even throw them on the roof!
Carmella brought in a book about the human body... and we had fun reading about all the different parts, especially about how the teeth fit into the skull!
We also found out that losing a tooth does not hurt all that much - thanks to Carmella who explained the whole process! This has put many children's minds at ease!
We are now looking forward to when our first teeth fall out! (except Ms Aini and Jenney who would very much like to keep their adult teeth!)
Ms Jenney
K1JW got a big surprise at assembly when they were awarded the 'Mustang' from the student council for being great inquirers!
The student council have been looking around the school and talking to students about their inquiries. Our students discussed ways in which we can tell stories and confidently showed the stories they have been creating in pairs. The children also demonstrated how they can use puppets in various ways as well as discussed how to act out stories using masks and props! The student council were impressed!
The children were very excited to receive the mustang - which they are proudly displaying in the classroom.
Great work K1JW ! You are stars!
Ms Jenney
This week the ES have been celebrating Earth Day.
We have been discussing how we can keep our planet clean and how we can all recycle. The children visited our recycling bins at school and have sorted out some classroom trash (rubbish) to put in the bins. We found that there were bins for paper, plastic, cans and cardboard. We found that there were ants in the cans bin. The children suggested that cans need to be washed before we put them in. A great idea!
We also looked for ways in which we can recycle in the classroom - the children came up with using both sides of the paper and using cardboard boxes for storage of pencils and markers.
During the next few days, we will talk about the use of electricity and the need to conserve it. On Friday we will have Free Dress Day... the children will come to school in Earth colours (green, brown and blue).
Regards
Ms Jenney
This semester, we are focusing on recognising , creating and extending patterns.
To start our unit, we used our bodies to create patterns. The children came up with ideas of how they could make patterns -
Here are their idea's
boy, girl, boy, girl, boy, girl
hand, hand, shoe, shoe, hand, hand, shoe, shoe
stand up, sit down, stand up, sit down
sit on floor, lie down, sit on floor, lie down
shoe, foot, shoe, foot, shoe, foot, shoe, foot
sit forwards, sit backwards, sit forwards, sit backwards
What fun we had creating these patterns - I have attached photo's below of the children's patterns.
Over the coming weeks we will use other materials as well as music to create patterns!
Regards
Ms Jenney
To start our unit 'How We Express Ourselves' we took a visit to the theatre to watch 'Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. We arrived 20 minutes before the show started and we waited for sometime for the show to begin. (In this photo Chikako was having fun with Ms Aini's bag waiting for the show to begin).
We were lucy enough to have the very back seats upstairs - which meant we got a great view of the show.
The show lasted around 50 minutes - there was singing, dancing, Goldilocks father and even a large claw that was trying to knock the bears house down!
The children immediately identified the differences between the play and the book we have in class and spent time on the bus discussing them on the way back to school.
When we arrived back at school - the children were given role play masks to act out the story themselves. What fun they had! Here are some photo's I managed to take.
Regards
Ms Jenney
This week in Literacy, we had fun using a game called Hedbanz for Kids!
The game involved putting a picture card (which you have not seen) on your head (with the use of a head band) and then trying to discover what the picture is.
For some of us, the questions were very simple... "Am I an animal?" "Can I eat it?" or "what colour am I?"
for others, the questions needed to be more thought out... such as "what can I be used for?".
What a fun way, to learn those vital questioning skills!
All the children did a great job trying to figure out what their picture was of.
For me.... I was given a fence.... hence this took quite a bit of questioning on my part! Well done children.... I really had to think! The closest I came was a gate!
Ms Aini was given a tomato - which she managed to discover with 3 questions!
I have attached some pictures of our game.
Regards
Ms Jenney
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