In this eventful week in the Curious Crew class, we started with some art pieces that will go up in our Cow Boys and Indians themed Art Expo. And it couldn’t e going better! These have been fun to make and are coming out better than we could have expected. 

We thought it would be super fun for the Crew to mix things up a bit for Show and Tell and explore sharing facts on different countries. Teacher Tegan made a list of countries and numbered them. She then created a digital wheel and each Crew member got to spin the wheel to see what number and country they would have to find facts one. Show and tell this week is going to be so much FUN! And we will be taking videos of the facts presented to the class.  

The Crew have loved learning about 3D shapes this year! This week we introduced the shape triangular Prism. Which the Crew coloured in and we stuck them together.  

We decided to do a little shape worksheet this week, the Crew had to match a few different pictures with different shapes. For example a kite looks like a diamond and a bird house looks like a pentagon. The Crew did quite well with this activity well done our Clever Crew! 

Again this week we have paid very close attention to the alphabet! Whenever we sit down for ringtime I ask the Crew what is the most important thing we need to learn in the Curious Crew class? They will answer, the alphabet. I will always explain to the Crew that when we learn about the alphabet in a group setting they are able to learn from each other, sheo paying attention in ringtime is very important.  

We played a game where I placed alphabet letters over randomly over the carpet. We went around in a circle and I asked each Crew to pick 2 letters of their choice, they then came up to the front and told the class the 2 letters that they had picked out. They Crew are doing well with recognition, I do however suggest that letters be practiced at home as well. If you are sounding them out, we focus on the SOUND not the name. Forming the letters in your name are important too, please only use small letters and a capital for first letter. 

The Crew loving finding words that go with the letter of the week. This is also a great game to play at home, in the car or the shops. Get their little brains working and making it a game just makes them more likely to engage and remember. 

We are in full swing of puzzle challenge. GO GO GO! Get your kiddies building. Just a reminder that the puzzle swop in reception is to swop out puzzles. Please if you could bring a puzzle or 2 from home to swop out with the puzzles in reception as we don’t have enough for everyone to have a puzzle.    

Our Crew!

Curious Crew really enjoyed this theme. They really loved taking part in ring time , learning about the different countries and their cultures. We enjoyed several educational videos too on what the different countries cultures are. We focused on our counting as well as our days of the week , we also repeated our months of the year as well as the seasons.  

ART

For Art this week , we made our very own rectangular prisms , we coloured them in and put them together to take home.  

We also made a super cool art piece , we drew our own little flags that we got to choose from different african countries , and we got to paste them on the african continent. We decorated this page with different patterns and colours.  

We had the best baking Thursday , we made rainbow bread. We used icing sugar with 100s and 1000s … the class loved this and enjoyed every single bite.  

FUNFIT SPORTS  

 This week Coach Trevor put the kids to the test , choosing captains for two teams and the teams had to compete in a very competitive throwing competition. Each team had to see how many tennis balls they could get into the buckets , to get a winning team.

YOGA  

Yoga Day for Curious Crew 

Doing yoga to our new song “Scaly Little Snake” was super fun. We did snake pose, elephant, bear, cat, frog, and happy children poses.  

We did a few spinal twist poses and finished off listening to dolphin sounds for quiet time 

Next weeks theme : Insects and Bees  

Our Crew!

Good day lovely Parents,

 We have had an interesting and fun filled week in the Curious Crew class! Learning about all the different cultures has been so interesting. Shiva could tell us so much about her culture, thank you so much for sharing with us Shiva.

 We have put a lot of focus on numbers and letters this week. Please parents if you could do the same. Try think of fun games to play, finding numbers and letters in books or magazines, spot the letter or number, or just bring numbers and letters into general conversation.

 We have been very hard at work with expo art. So exciting and again parents, I apologize for keeping every weeks art but we have been making the most beautiful art pieces so why not keep it for this special occasion!

 This week the kiddies got to draw and colour in 4 different flags, they had the African continent’s countries to choose from. With only a little help on tricky flags the Crew really enjoyed making different flags and it was so awesome to see that most of them pointed out the South African flag and then drew it. So proud of these kiddies!

 This week we say goodbye to Letter Challenge and go full swing into puzzle challenge. GO GO GO! Get your kiddies building!

“Have Courage and Be Kind…

Where there is kindness there is goodness, and where there is goodness there is magic!”

• Cinderella

Happy Crew!