Moral conscious theme: Personal Space – We explained to the Squad that personal space is the area around your body and that we need to respect our friends’ bubbles. We must not pop other people’s bubbles because it could make them feel uncomfortable and we must politely let others know when you are not comfortable with how close they are.  

We would like to officially welcome everyone to the Smart Squad for 2025. We started the week off with ring time where we introduced ourselves, discussed the theme, colour, sound, shape, and number of the week, followed by the moral conscious theme. We then discussed weekend news and sang a few new songs which we learn for our graduation at the end of the year.  

Writing and Phonics: This week the Squad worked hard on remembering and reading their first sight word “look”. We are very impressed by how the Squad have remembered this word, please keep practicing sight words at home too. We also practiced letter formations “a”,” b”, and “c” in our workbooks, well tried Squad! 

Another concept that we went over is “compound” words such as butter-fly. This was introduced as a start to syllables and clapping out our words. Well done Squad!  

Mathematics: This week we traced the numbers “1-10” in our workbook followed by writing the numbers independently using the correct number formation, as well as counting to 30 and beginning to count backwards from 30. We also went over our shape of the week and traced the shape with o it fingers in sand. 

Cooking: For our cooking class this week, the Squad made a mouth and teeth using apples and mini marshmallows. Hmmmm…. These looked delicious and, the Squad enjoyed these for a snack before lunch! Great work little bakers! 

Creative Art: The Squad enjoyed making their own “nature bodies” for art. They took a nature walk and found natural resources such as sticks leaves, acorns, and rocks. They then formed their own bodies using these materials, adding in as much detail as possible. The Squad thoroughly enjoyed this – their art came out uniquely beautiful! The Squad have really impressed us so far, it is going to be an awesome year getting to know each other. 

Busy Bodies!