curiouscrew | Eco-Kids Preschool

Travel and Holidays

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THEME

Travel & Holidays

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COLOUR

Yellow

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SHAPE

Square

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NUMBER

Recap

j

LETTER

Hh – Hot

Dear Parents,

First and foremost, I want to congratulate each and every one for an amazing Market Day! We raised R5 632 WOW!!! This is amazing! We are going to have a blast at our outing in celebration of this successful market day.

As we approach the holidays it was very interesting to hear where all the Crew would like to go. There was Scotland, Cape Town, the Bird and Monkey Park, Durban, Kenya, South America, the Kruger, and a few kids want to go to Sun City. I think the Crew are more than ready for their December holidays.

This week The Crew renewed their passports. Each one got a special passport and the opportunity to stamp them with all sorts of different pictures. They came out so cute! We even decided as a class to use our passports for our outing on Friday.

Learning the alphabet is still one of our top priorities. This week we practiced writing our letters and we are continuing to sing our Jolly Phonics whenever we get the chance. The Crew really shine when doing these activities.

We have been working on our Christmas art this week and The Crew are beyond excited to share these special pieces with their parents. I love hearing the stories that come up during these activities of the different traditions each family has over Christmas time. It seems that Elf on the Shelf is the most awaited visitor!

Teacher Lexi made some banana and apple planes with The Crew this week for cooking. They practiced peeling their banana and spreading the jam with their own knife. I was very pleased to see how far their skills have progressed throughout the year.

Next week’s theme is Christmas, and I am just as excited as The Crew to get into Christmas spirit! Let’s make these last few days extra special and extra magical!

Next week’s theme: Christmas

Have a wonderful weekend!

Dates to Diarise:

27 Nov: Carols By Candlelight

3 Dec: Magic Show (during school)

4 Dec: Christmas Party (during school0

5 Dec: Break Up Day

Lots of love

Teacher Tegan, Teacher Lexi and the Curious Crew Assistants

Our Crew!

Shops and Shopping

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THEME

Shops & Shopping

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COLOUR

White

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SHAPE

Oval/Triangular Prism

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NUMBER

Recap

j

LETTER

Qq – Queue

Our long-awaited Market Day has been the highlight of our week. It’s all that the Crew can talk about. This makes my heart so happy seeing the joy our Market Day has brought the Crew.

Our week has been filled with many different activities and games. We have started with some Christmas art as we want to make sure our Christmas boxes are overflowing with the Christmas spirit. And they are not just any Christmas art, there are many different skills used to make these creations.

Each day we practice the alphabet, going over the name, sound and Jolly Phonics of each letter. During our daily story time after break, I ask the Crew to tell me what letter certain things start with, and we are also working on our rhyming words.

For our themed art, the Crew were tasked with cutting out pictures in magazines, pictures that caught their eye, things they would like to buy. The Crew also coloured in and cut out some money. It was so funny to see how they lit up getting ’money’ LOL. So cute! Each Curious Crew also got to make their own credit card and swipe it at the machine during their shopping activity.They loved their purses so much they wanted to use them at the market day. Job well done Crew!

At yoga this week the Crew listened to a yoga story about kindness. How to be kind to each other by saying and doing kind things. They also practiced a few poses whilst listening to dolphin and ocean sounds.

Next week we will have our Curious Crew outing to celebrate all the hard work that went into the Crews Market Day. Please make sure to send your indemnity forms back as soon as possible.

Next week’s theme: Travel and Holidays

Have a wonderful weekend!

Dates to Diarise:

18 Nov: HH Outing

20 Nov: SS Graduation (tbc)

22 Nov: CC & SS Outing

27 Nov: Carols By Candlelight

3 Dec: Magic Show (during school)

4 Dec: Christmas Party (during school0

5 Dec: Break Up Day

Lots of love

Teacher Tegan, Teacher Lexi and the Curious Crew Assistants

Our Crew!

Cooking and Food

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THEME

Cooking & Food

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COLOUR

Purple

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SHAPE

Rectangle/Rectangular Prism

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NUMBER

Recap

j

LETTER

Cc – Cooking / Ff – Food

This week in the Curious Crew class we have concentrated on what utensils and gadgets we use in the kitchen. It was quite interesting hearing some of the answers we had in ring time!

Again, this week we have been hard at work learning the alphabet. Not only being able to recognise the letter but also the sound the letters make, the Crew just love singing their Jolly Phonics! Letter Recognition is one of the most important requirements for Grade R. Please, if you could practice this with your little ones at home. In saying that I’m so proud to say that almost half of the class know all the letters of the alphabet. Wow, yay #proudteacher.

I love this theme and so do the children! Let’s get started…

Ice cream always goes down well so that was our cooking activity for the week. Using condensed milk, heavy whipping cream, vanilla essence, and then the Crew got to choose their flavour: vanilla, chocolate or strawberry. They could not wait to dive in!

The Crew also got creative making their own chef apron felt art. Each Crew got an outline of an apron and they used glue to stick pieces of felt to make their personalized apron.

Last but not least we ended off the week drawing our favourite food. The Crew were so happy, chatting about what they love eating most! It seems that chocolate, hamburger and pizza are our class favourites.

Next week is our Curious Crew market day and shopping activity, please let me know if you have any questions. Crew must have someone to help them on Market Day and an example of the market day slips will go out beforehand so that everyone knows how the slips will work. The parents do not need to worry about handling any money at all. The Crew will also be doing their shopping activity on Wednesday.

Next week’s theme: Shops and Shopping

Does pineapple belong on pizza? We wanna know what you think!

Dates to Diarise:

13 Nov: Shopping Activity (during school)

15 Nov: CC Entrepreneur Market

18 Nov: HH Outing

20 Nov: SS Graduation (tbc)

22 Nov: CC & SS Outing

27 Nov: Carols By Candlelight

3 Dec: Magic Show (during school)

4 Dec: Christmas Party (during school0

5 Dec: Break Up Day

Lots of love

Teacher Tegan, Teacher Alexia and the Curious Crew Assistants

Our Crew!

Under The Sea

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THEME

Under The Sea

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COLOUR

Dark Blue

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SHAPE

Circle/Cylinder

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NUMBER

Recap

j

LETTER

Uu – Under

There is always something new to learn when doing under the sea. There are so many different types of sharks in the sea, like Bullhead sharks and Lemon sharks…how interesting is that!!! We learnt about the coral reef and how each little piece of coral is a living animal and all the animals work together to make the coral reef using pieces of bone from fish and other sea creatures that have died. Parrot fish eat the coral and poop out what we now know as sea sand, we had a good laugh at that fact! We also told the kiddies that they are only allowed to pick up shells and coral if it has been washed up on the beach and not pick it out of the sea. Something different we discussed, using your 5 senses while you are at the beach.

We have had two weeks of many activities and assessments exploring oceans and the other themes of the week. We started the week’s activities with a little under the sea colouring sheet and it was so awesome to see their imaginations runs wild. Even though we are hard at work with assessments, I have tried to make these activities fun for the Crew.

The Crew also got to see real shark eggs! How awesome. Each of the Crew will be bringing home a shark egg to keep.

We have also started name writing with the proper letter formation to grow on previous weeks lessons. This is very important for next year in Grade R! Please practice the SOUND of the letters at home as well as letter recognition putting emphasis on the sound.

During FFS last week the Crew had been doing assessments with Coach Trevor and WOW I am so impressed with how far the Crew has come over the course of the year. Keep up the hard work Crew!

At yoga with Teacher Nicole the Crew worked on picture and pose association using a variety of pictures ranging from animals to transport. They also practiced breathwork using numbers and they just LOVE their 3 minutes of relax time at the end of their lesson.

This was our last week of puzzle challenge, well done to all of our Crew! Certificates and prizes will go out next week to our top 3 Puzzle Challenge winners.

Next week’s theme: Cooking and Food

Weekend ... SHELL YEAH!

Dates to Diarise:

6 Nov: Haircut Day

7 Nov: Mommy/Daddy & Me Yoga

8 Nov: Mommy/Daddy & Me Yoga

13 Nov: Shopping Activity (during school)

15 Nov: CC Entrepreneur Market

18 Nov: HH Outing

20 Nov: SS Graduation (tbc)

22 Nov: CC & SS Outing

27 Nov: Carols By Candlelight

3 Dec: Magic Show (during school)

4 Dec: Christmas Party (during school0

5 Dec: Break Up Day

Lots of love

Teacher Tegan, Teacher Alexia and the Curious Crew Assistants

Our Crew!

Fantasy

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THEME

Fantasy

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COLOUR

Rainbow, Black & Dark Grey

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SHAPE

Recap, Star, Crescent

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NUMBER

Recap

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LETTER

Mm – Mystical

The excitement for Art Expo is growing and the school is a buzz with tickets sales, music, costume ideas, dance moves, art pieces and projects left right and center. One of our most spectacular events next week Friday. Just when you think one year can’t be as good as the next it really takes you by surprise I think we have really pulled this one out of the bag!!!

Even though we have been hard at work preparing for our beautiful Art Expo, we got some serious learning done this week in the Curious Crew class.

I have told the Crew many times that learning our alphabet is one of the most important parts of learning in the Curious Crew class. There were 2 different alphabet games we played. Placing letters of the alphabet on the carpet, we went around in the circle and the Crew got to choose 2 letters and come up and tell the class which letters they had chosen. Then on another day we lay the letters down and again going around in the circle, I told each Crew which 2 letters they had to find on the carpet. And I was super impressed with how well the Crew know their letters! It makes me SO proud, we are getting there with our letter recognition. YAY.

Another important activity we did this week was letter formation. Because name writing in one of the first writings our little ones do, we started with correct letter formation of the letters of their names.

During story time this week we have started learning about rhyming words. This has been so much fun to do while reading stories with the Crew and I have told them that this is something they can do with you as parents at home. So what I do is read the sentence putting emphasis on the first rhyming word then I will let them guess the next rhyming word. You will be pleasantly surprised at how well they guess the next word.

Next week’s theme: Art Expo

Have Courage and Be Kind…

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

Cinderella

Let us know on your class WhatsApp groups folks ... Are you part of the Indian TRIBE ... or do you with the Cowboys RIDE?

Dates to Diarise:

18 Oct: Art Expo

24 Oct: Break Up Day

25-28 Oct: Mid Term Break

29 Oct: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Tegan and the Curious Crew Assistants

Our Crew!

Insects and Bees; Frogs and Ponds, Rivers and Dams

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THEME

Insects & Bees; Frogs & Ponds, Rivers & Dams

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COLOUR

Yellow; Light Blue/Turquoise

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SHAPE

Hexagon; Oval/Tear Drop

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NUMBER

14 and 15

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LETTER

Ii; Mm

Welcome back after a nice long weekend. However this did only leave us with 3 days of this awesome theme! So we made the most of it. Here’s what we got up to.

For art this week, we made amazingly beautiful bug jars. The Crew were instructed to colour in their bug jars and different types of critters to go inside. We cut the inside of the jar out and laminated the bugs inside. We will be keeping them for art expo to display them in the prettiest kind of way.

We continued on crafts ‘Cow boys and Indians’ themed for our up and coming Art Expo. These crafts are extra special so take extra long to complete. Plus we need to have more than one extra ordinary art piece to display. The excitement is getting real now! This is one of the most special evening of the year please try your best to attend, it’s really a night you will enjoy.

Fun Fit Sports was a blast this week! The Crew played some ten pin bowling. It’s so special to hear them cheer each other on especially when they knocked down pins.

Yoga this week was all about team work, so they did a group Yoga. The group flower pose is only possible if everyone can balance, create a circle by holding hands and keeping their core muscles tight whistle lifting their legs in the air. This activity was super fun and the Crew could hold this pose for 15 seconds before the 1st petal few off.

Another fun activity we did was letter formation. Using white boards I wrote down each letter demonstrating to the Crew how the letter is formed. This will be one of our most important focuses for the rest of the year.

Puzzle Challenge is well under way and it’s so much fun to see the Crew made those graphs grow each week. Keep up all the great work Crew. We can’t wait to see who the winner will be. As our moral conscious says, hard work pays off!

Frogs and Ponds, Rivers and Dams

Colour: Turquoise

Shape: Tear drop

Number: 14

Letter: Mm – Mud

Moral Conscious: Do unto others

Over the last 2 weeks during story time we have been reading our book study ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl. The Crew have really enjoyed listen to this story with different chapters and evolving story line. It was interesting to have discussions but also remembering what had happened and what they thought was going to happen next. This is also a book with very few pictures, so the Crew had to use most of their imagination to put together the pictures.

For our creative arts this week we decided to make different animals, when put together make a pond. The Crew coloured in patterns, using kokis on tin foil covered pictures. This really comes out beautifully and we can’t wait to put up the display on Art Expo evening.

This week we added to our Expo themed art. Pastel drawings, and ancient art traditions. This is what you can look forward to on this spectacular evening.

Here are a few fun facts we learnt in ring time, if you would like to chat about them at home:

Frogs Toads

Need to live near water Do not need to live near water to survive

Have a smooth, moist skin Have rough, dry and bumpy skin

Have a narrow body Have a round wider body

A group of frogs is called an “army” A group of toads is called a “knot”

In Cooking this week, we kept to the natural theme and worked with the spice, cinnamon. That is actually ‘bark’ from a cinnamon tree. A layer of the bark is peeled away and underneath is a layer of cinnamon. The bark is carved out and dried, leaving you with what we know as cinnamon sticks. These sticks are then ground up into a powder which gives us our cinnamon.

So we made cinnamon rolls! YUM!!! Teacher Tegan took us through baking cinnamon rolls step by step, with the dough we even had to let it rest over night to make sure it was the fluffiest cinnamon rolls ever. Thank goodness Teacher Tegan is a great baker!

One of the best things about this theme is when we get to go next door to visit the koi pond. We get to feed the fish AND go on the merry go round!! This is so much fun and always a great way to end this special week. Pictures and videos will be uploaded straight to the group. Gerry might even make his way up there with us to choose this next adventure partner.

Next week’s theme: Fantasy and Fairytales

Let us know on your class WhatsApp groups folks ... Are you part of the Indian TRIBE ... or do you with the Cowboys RIDE?

Dates to Diarise:

18 Oct: Art Expo

24 Oct: Break Up Day

25-28 Oct: Mid Term Break

29 Oct: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Tegan and the Curious Crew Assistants

Our Crew!

Countries and Cultures

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THEME

Countries & Cultures

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COLOUR

Flag Colours

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SHAPE

Rectangle/Rectangular Prism

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NUMBER

12 & Recap

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LETTER

Pp – Pride

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.

Have a wonderful LONG WEEKEND!

Dates to Diarise:

23 Sept: School Holiday

24 Sept: Public Holiday (Heritage Day)

3 Oct: Haircut Day

18 Oct: Art Expo

24 Oct: Break Up Day

25-28 Oct: Mid Term Break

29 Oct: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Tegan and the Curious Crew Assistants

Our Crew!

Spring, Flowers & Planting; Trees, Plants, Wood & Paper

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THEME

Spring, Flowers & Planting; Trees, Plants, Wood & Paper

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COLOUR

Lime & Brown

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SHAPE

Semi-Circle & Sphere

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NUMBER

1 – 11

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LETTER

Vv -Vase; Tt -Tree

Welcome back to Term 3 parents and HAPPY Spring, this warm weather is so lovely and to see all the new green life!

We have had a lovely short week in the Curious Crew class. We started off our week with a colour in Spring worksheet. The Crew display such growth with their work after the August holiday. They sit working carefully not rushing through their work.

In the spirit of Spring we needed to take advantage of all the bright colours that come with Spring. We decided that a pretty Spring flower still life painting would be a great activity as our first art piece for the 3rd term. It was beautiful to see how the Crew used lots of different colours and took their time to create these beautiful masterpieces.

We will be concentrating harder than ever on the alphabet this term as well as getting the Crew to writing their name on their own. We were super impressed with the name writing activity we did, not only are they getting better with tracing over their names but when they write it on their own, they are showing great improvement.

At FunFit Sports this week the Crew got to get back into the swing of things with their ball, hand eye-coordination, with some cricket practice! The Crew are great sportsmans and love to cheer each other on when they up there ready to bat! A lovely sports session as always, thank you Coach Trevor.

Yoga was all about team work! The Crew started off with some Yoga stretches, focusing on core strength and hamstrings. The Crew then did some partner poses; tree, boat and table top. This made the Crew giggle and smile from ear to ear! Definitely a great Yoga session for the beginning of the 3rd Term. Thank you teacher Yoga!

Show and tell this week was pretty and colourful as the Crew brought bunches of flowers to show off to the class! There are some lovely pictures in the blog this week of the Crews Show and Tell. Enjoy.

Gerry is still doing his rounds in the Curious Crew class, let us know if there are any special weekends you would like Gerry.

Trees, Plants, Wood and Paper

This week we kicked off our Puzzle Challenge! I can’t wait to see the graph grow and who will be the reigning champion at the end of this challenge. It is also interest to see who has a competitive streak and how this challenge will bring that out. Let’s get building Crew! Don’t forget that you are more than welcome to bring puzzles from home to swop out with the puzzles in reception, they will be returned once puzzle challenge is over. Don’t forget to record the puzzles built on the Google document so we can keep track of the number of pieces being built.

Keeping in the spirit of Spring we decided to make beautiful sun catches. The Crew got to colour in their little suns with some bright pastel crayons and the pick pieces of coloured cellophane to go into the middle which we then laminated. And just WOW they look amazing. This piece of art is definitely one to treasure for years to come.

We did a challenging perceptual worksheet where the Crew had to colour in different halves of leaves. Once they had completed that, they were then tasked to cut them out, put together to 2 matching halves and then stick them onto a piece of paper.

We also decided to do some name writing again this week. Getting the Crew to practice on there writing/fine motor skills is very important in getting them ready for their reception year. Please practice at home as much as you can as well. And on that note, when practicing name writing at home please use the correct letter formation. Only the first Letter is a capital and then the rest are in low case letters.

We also did a tracing worksheet to go with those very important fine motor skills.

For cooking this week we did worms in the soil. During our morning ringtime sessions we spoke about how there are different layers of soil and which bugs live in the different layers of soil. Combining cooking and ringtime we made this concept more concert when putting together of cooking. Using crushed biscuits as the base with some sour worms and then some more cruched biscuits to cover the worms and then the sprinkled on some bronze sprinkles to add some ‘leaves’ to their ‘topsoil’. They enjoyed their cooking in class the same day.

At FunFit Sports this week the Crew enjoyed a game of T-ball, they used a pool noodle which is nice and light for them to swing but boy could they hit those balls far! It was super impressive.

The Crew were so happy to see Teacher Mo again this week after the holidays and what was the first thing they requested…rock music LOL. Teacher Mo had to give them what they requested before he could carry on with the lesson. So far the Crew have been introduced to, the blues, rock, jazz and classical music genres. Keep up your magical teachings Teacher Mo.

Next week’s theme: Countries and Cultures

Happy Monday!

Dates to Diarise:

20 Sept: Hat Parade Day

23 Sept: School Holiday

24 Sept: Public Holiday (Heritage Day)

3 Oct: Haircut Day

18 Oct: Art Expo

24 Oct: Break Up Day

25-28 Oct: Mid Term Break

29 Oct: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Tegan and the Curious Crew Assistants

Our Crew!

Dinosaurs – Under the Soil

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THEME

Dinosaurs

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COLOUR

Green

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SHAPE

Triangle/Cone/Sphere

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NUMBER

Recap

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LETTER

Dd – Day

What a busy week we have had learning about Dinosaurs! There are just so many activities to do and things to be learnt.

Teacher Tegan has done a daily A-Z on Dinosaur names. Each day we have learnt 3 more letters of Dinosaur names going in alphabetic order. Learning these Dinosaurs’ long names is a fun and tricky task. Let’s see how many they can remember:

Allosaurus, Baryonyx,Coelophysis, Diplodocus, Euoplocephalus, Fabrosaurus, Gravitholus, Hadrosaurus, Iguanodon, Janenschia, Kentrosaurus, Leptoceratops, Macroplata, Nodosaurus, Ouranosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Quetzalcoatlus, Riojasaurus, Stenonychosaurus, Tricerarops, Ultrasaurus, Velociraptor, Wannanosaurus, Xenotarsosaurus, Yingshanosaurus and the Zephyrosaurus.

We have also read a cute little novel called ‘Dino Club’ where each day we read a few chapters of the book for the Crew, Characters Jamie and Tess have an app on their tablet where they can chat to all the children around the world about Dinosaurs. Jamie finds Tess on this app and they get together to go on a Dino adventure! Venturing down into a cave where they discover a whole different world of Dinosaurs down there.

The Crew just loved this little novel!

Amongst the many different activities we have completed this week, we did a fossil like Pterodactyl made out of pasta. The Crew had to copy the example, planning where to glue next and how many pieces of pasta they would need. It came out really beautifully.

A fun little activity we did that included an outing around the school, we created dinosaur skins through a cut out brontosaurus. We walked around and each Crew member had to look around to see what background would make a pretty skin for their brontosaurus. The Crew had lots of fun with this activity and the pictures came out so beautifully!

We have also complete a few different worksheets this week, Line tracing, perceptual work sheet that consisted of colouring cutting out and pasting back together. Number tracing 1-10, matching pictures to the letters the pictures start with and an introduction worksheet to capital letters and their small letter. All Dinosaurs themed, of course!

We completed an eye spy activity where the Crew really had to concentrate on the work that they were doing. All these activities are about following instructions which we sometimes take for granted. It is a skill that needs to be taught. The Crew were instructed to look at the pictures coloured in and try to find them in amongst the collage of pictures below AND then they had to count how many they had found the write that number in the block below the coloured in picture. This was a challenging activity but I love to challenge my Crew that’s how they expand their minds and when we do an activity like this again they will do even better!

We have practiced our alphabet through the Letter Challenge this past term. However I do encourage you as parents to go over the letters in the holidays. The Crew need to be able to recognition each letter, know the SOUND the letter makes and start forming the letters correctly. (Going over the letters just with their finger is a great start)

FunFit Sports was the BEST! The Crew were introduced to a new ball skilled game, T-Ball. And they had to run to the different bases as well. It was an absolute ball LOL, pun intended. Let’s go Curious Crew, Let’s go.

At the closing of this term we say good-bye to Lilly, who joined us for a short period of time while her and her family visited South Africa from Saudi Arabia and we also say good-bye to Kudiwanashe (Kudi) who’s family will be immigrating shortly in the new term.

We hope you all have an amazing August holiday! Rest well and we look forward to all the exciting events that await us in the new term such as:

Puzzle Challenge

Art expo

Mommy/Daddy and me yoga

Curious Crew market day

Curious Crew outing

Christmas, Christmas, Christmas

And Reports

Next theme in the new term: Spring Time and Flowers

Have a wonderful holiday folks!

Dates to Diarise:

9 August: Public Holiday (National Women’s Day)

12 August: Holiday Club Starts

2 Sept: Holiday Club Ends

3 Sept: Staff Return To School

4 Sept: First Day of Term 3!

6 Sept: Haircut Day

9 Sept: School Photographs

10 Sept: School Photographs

11 Sept: School Photographs

20 Sept: Hat Parade Day

23 Sept: School Holiday

24 Sept: Public Holiday (Heritage Day)

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Tegan and the Curious Crew Assistants

Our Crew!

Space

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THEME

Space

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COLOUR

Orange

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SHAPE

Diamond

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NUMBER

Recap

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LETTER

Nn- Night

Space is always such an exciting and interesting theme which we can expand so much on. The Crew have a good understanding of space and it was great to go into the finer detail about space. This week our ring times have been extra-long because there is just so much information on space.

The Sun is a star and the stars we see up in the night sky are far away ‘suns’ in the sky. Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are rocky planets, they are solid, and Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus are planets made of liquid and gas.

The rings around Saturn are made up of rocks, dust and ice. Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system because of the gas that surrounds the planet and traps hot air under the gas cloud. Our galaxy is called The Milky Way.

Go through some of these facts with your children to see how many they can remember from ringtime discussions. We also watched a few YouTube Videos on astronauts up in space and how they wash their hair, brush their teeth, how they go to the toilet and the kind of exercises they have to do to keep fit.

Over the past few weeks, we have been hard at work with concert practice. Each day the Crew have been up on stage making sure they know their moves and their words for this special occasion! We are SUPER proud of them and are really holding thumbs that when they are up their looking down on so many people that they are still just as confident and full of beans ready to show off to their friends and family. We have told the Crew to just have fun and give us big smiles when they are up there!

Here is a breakdown of some of the activities we have completed in the last 2 weeks. The Crew had to complete a colour by numbers solar system. This activity is not only about colouring in but ‘reading’, number recognition and planning.

We did a little hexagon and counting activity where the Crew were instructed, in a hive of hexagons, they had to draw 9 bees. Again, they had to pay attention to what they were doing and count as they went along. Believe it or not a lot of the Crew drew many more than 9 bees. LOL.

We also completed a visual perceptual worksheet. The Crew had to first colour in a picture of our solar system. Then they had to cut the picture out, which was divided into 6 pieces. And stick it back together like a puzzle. One of the kiddies really struggled with this and became teary and upset that her puzzle wasn’t coming together as she wanted it to because she stuck the pieces down first before organising them to see which ones fit together. This was a great learning opportunity! I reassured her that it was ok to be upset but she can learn from this and next time know how to plan better.

Learning opportunities like this are gems! Life lessons! It’s ok to make mistakes and that things don’t always work out like you planned but you can learn from these mistakes and now you will know a better way to approach this type of challenge in the future.

We hope you enjoy the Concert! We are ready and super excited!

Next week’s theme: Dinosaurs

ONE MORE SLEEP UNTIL CONCERT!

Dates to Diarise:

27 July: EcoKids Concert

8 August: Pyjama Dress Up Day & Break Up Day

9 August: Public Holiday (National Women’s Day)

12 August: Holiday Club Starts

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Tegan and the Curious Crew Assistants

Our Precious Stars!

Reptiles

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THEME

Reptiles

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COLOUR

White

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SHAPE

Hexagon

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NUMBER

Recap

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LETTER

Ll – Lizard

Welcome back to the second half of the second term! We hope that you all have had a wonderful break and are ready to take on the rest of the term!

Do you have green skin? Do you shed the skin you’re in? Can you change the colour, too? Turn from green to red to blue.

Do you live among the trees? Blending in with sticks and leaves.

Then you are a chameleon!

This was a super busy week for the Crew! Especially when the Reptiles came to visit and we all got to touch and hold weird and wonderful creatures. This show is always interesting and has so much information about the animals. Thank you for another amazing show Julian!

For art this week, we decided it would be a cool idea for the Crew to make their own Reptile booklets. We set out a displayed and instructed the children to draw first in black as the outline and then to colour in the pictures they had drawn. These came out so beautifully and we have decided to keep them for Art Expo.

A few other activities we did this week was a colour by alphabet worksheet, and wow the Crew impressed with how well they know their letters. Super work Crew! We also completed a dot to dot worksheet as well as a little hexagon tortoise. This was a 3 part exercise with different stages. The Crew were shown a picture of different tortoise shells and they had to choice which pattern they wanted to colour theirs. Then they had to cut out the hexagon as well as the tortoises little legs, head and tail. Then stick all the pieces together to form a tortoise.

During our ringtime sessions, we discussed all the facts about what makes a reptile a reptile. They are cold-blooded which means they need the sun to help keep them warm. Reptiles also lay eggs and have scaly skin that can also shed. Most reptiles can be kept as pets and they need lots of care to make sure they live long and healthy lives.

Concert practice is going well and we are getting more and more excited to show off all the hard work we have put into one of the best themed concerts we have!

In music this week Teacher Mo helped us out with concert songs and we went over beats and rhythms. The Crew are separated into 4 groups and on the count of 1 2 3 4 each group has a turn to clap and stamp to their assigned number beat.

For cooking this week, when we had chips and fish finger the Crew got to fry their own chippies, this was also a lesson in safety in the kitchen when working with hot oil by the hot stove. Did you see how well they ate? Food always tastes better when they have prepared it themselves. Great work my Crew!

Letter challenge will resume, please keep practicing though very important letters!

Gerry will be going home with…J

Next week’s theme: Dinosaurs (One of the best themes! YAY)

See you on Monday!

Dates to Diarise

18 July: Nelson Mandela Day

27 July: EcoKids Concert

8 August: Pyjama Dress Up Day & Break Up Day

9 August: Public Holiday (National Women’s Day)

12 August: Holiday Club Starts