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Me and My Body

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Me and My Body

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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 started the week off with ring time where we 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.

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!

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.

Cooking: For our cooking class this week, the Squad formed their own “bodies” using Vienna’s and puff pastry. They rolled the pastry around the Vienna as clothes and cut the Vienna’s forming feet and arms. Hmmmm…. These looked delicious when they came out of the oven, the Squad enjoyed these for their 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!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Dates to Diarise:

1 Feb: SS Term Meeting

8 Feb: Abacus Parent Training Evening

12 Feb: CC Term Meeting

14 Feb: Valentine’s Disco (during school)

15 Feb: Haircut Day

20 Feb: Fire Drill

21 Feb: HH Term Meeting

22 Feb: Mid-Term Break Up Day

23 – 26 Feb: Mid Term Break & Camping Weekend

27 Feb: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Carla, Teacher Hayley and the Smart Squad Assistants

Busy Bodies!

Me and My Body

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THEME

Me and My Body

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COLOUR

Red

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SHAPE

Circle

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NUMBER

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LETTER

Aa

I just love this theme, there are so many things to cover when talking about our very complex and clever bodies! The Crew know all their limbs as well as body parts that they can see. So we went to the body parts that we can’t see. The Crew learnt that their fist is the same size as their stomachs and heart, their 2 fists together are the size of their brain. We covered the stomach and small intestines and the jobs that they do. The Crew now know that our lungs breathe in oxygen which our organs and muscles need. Their heart is a muscle that pumps blood all over our body and that our brain tells our arms and legs what to do, as well as things we don’t even think of. We have bones to keep us up otherwise we would just be like a piece of spaghetti. The Crew know where the smallest bones in your body are and how many bones we have in our bodies.

We all know we can draw with our hands but let’s have some fun drawing with our feet… This was such a cute little activity and seeing the Crew with the crayon between their toes drawing with their feet was the cutest!

For a fun activity we looked at the components that make up our blood. We have red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and yellow plasma. This was a hit with the Curious Crew. They are super proud of their bottles of blood.

Mind Ninja is underway, our first lesson included a BIG hug and then affirming ‘I love me.’ I told the Crew that when they are getting dressed or brushing their teeth and they look in the mirror, they must give themselves a big hug and say ‘I love me’. Each week we will go over the different emotions we experience too. This week we identified feeling ‘happy’, what our facial expression looks like when we are happy as well as what makes us happy. In our activity the Crew had a page filled with different expressions and they had to colour the happy faces only. We finished off with a song and a little team war cry MIND NINJAS!

This week we did our first cooking lesson. The Crew had to peel their own banana, cut it up and made little men, using pretzel sticks for arms and legs, and choc chips for eyes nose and mouth. They came out really cute and the Crew loved eating what they made.

Since we are learning about our bodies, let’s see what details we can add to our body drawings… We worked in small groups and did a guided drawing. We added a neck into our drawing and the children were shown different ways to draw their legs and arms, hair and ears with earrings. It was a very successful activity!

Helpful tips of the week: The most important rule in our class is to ‘Keep your hands to yourself’ (Our action for this, when telling the Crew, is giving themselves a hug). As much fun as it is to hang on to and hold our friends, most of the time it ends up in tears rather than smiles. If you as parents could please chat to your children at home about this rule and respecting their friends’ personal space.

What a wonderful week we have had!

Next week’s theme: My senses

Have a wonderful weekend!

Dates to Diarise:

1 Feb: SS Term Meeting

8 Feb: Abacus Parent Training Evening

12 Feb: CC Term Meeting

14 Feb: Valentine’s Disco (during school)

15 Feb: Haircut Day

20 Feb: Fire Drill

21 Feb: HH Term Meeting

22 Feb: Mid-Term Break Up Day

23 – 26 Feb: Mid Term Break & Camping Weekend

27 Feb: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Tegan and the Curious Crew Assistants

Busy Bodies!

Me and My Body

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THEME

Me and My Body

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COLOUR

Red

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SHAPE

Circle

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NUMBER

1

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LETTER

Aa

I can’t believe we are already in the second week of our first term.

Our Happy Hoppers have really been so impressive with how they have all settled down so quickly and into our routine. We still have a few tears in the mornings, but they don’t last very long at all.

This has been a remarkably busy week as we started with our intramurals this week like Yoga and FunFit sports. At yoga, this week the new Happy Hoppers met Teacher Nicole for the first time. The Hoppers also met Coach Trevor our FunFit sports coach. At FunFit sports Coach Trevor played a colour matching game with the Hoppers.

Our art activity was so much fun – the Hoppers made a body with different shapes. The teachers cut out the shapes and the Hoppers glued their shapes to form bodies. We did some baking this week. The Hoppers made a Marie biscuit face with icing sugar and sweets.

It has really been a tremendous start to the beginning of our year with lots of activities enjoyed by all.

Just a few reminders:

Remember to read our Sunday message.

Please remember to send back your library books.

Please label everything you send to school.

Remember show and tell on a Friday and this is theme related.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Dates to Diarise:

1 Feb: SS Term Meeting

8 Feb: Abacus Parent Training Evening

12 Feb: CC Term Meeting

14 Feb: Valentine’s Disco (during school)

15 Feb: Haircut Day

20 Feb: Fire Drill

21 Feb: HH Term Meeting

22 Feb: Mid-Term Break Up Day

23 – 26 Feb: Mid Term Break & Camping Weekend

27 Feb: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Katy, Teacher Cecilia and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

Busy Bodies!

Me and My Body

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THEME

Me and My Body

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COLOUR

Red

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SHAPE

Circle



NUMBER

1

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LETTER

Aa

“Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Knees and Toes!” What a fun week with an exciting theme to go along with it! We are very proud to say that our Bugs know all of their body parts, including some of the trickier ones like ankle, elbow and chest! We just love how practical and hands on this theme can be and we love the excited looks on our Bugs faces when they point excitedly to a body part they know!

As a fun learning activity this week, the Bugs were each given a label from our theme board and asked to find and label the correct parts of Teacher Gemma. They of course thought this was the funniest thing ever and seeing Teacher Gemma at the end with labels stuck all the way from her hair to her toes made everyone laugh even more!

We chatted about our moral theme, respecting other people’s personal space, and we all drew bubbles around us in the air. Our teachers explained that no one is allowed into your bubble if you don’t allow it. We then did an activity where we asked our friends for hugs. If they said it was okay, we moved into their space to give a hug. If they said no, we respected their choice. We also chatted about things like “What happens when your body gets hungry?” and then “Where does food go when you eat it?” Also, “what happens if you don’t brush your teeth?” We had a great time engaging their existing knowledge of the topic and then building on it.

Even though our number for the week was 1, we can happily report that most of our Bugs can count up to 5. We played a game at ring time where each of them had to go find ONE RED thing in the class. What a fun game! We had red shoes, blocks and books! Well done, Busy Bugs!

For our art activity this week, the Bugs got to roller paint onto a traced body shape on a BIG piece of paper. We then looked though magazines to find eyes, ears, a nose, a mouth and hands, which we cut out and stuck in the correct position on our big body. We used wool bits for the hair, collaged patterned pictures into a t-shirt and used a piece on fabric for the pants.

We enjoyed a lot of “first’s” this week and the Bugs LOVED them all!

We look forward to spending many more, happy weeks with these awesome Bugs!

Have a great weekend and we will see you next week for one of our favourite themes!

Next Week’s Theme: Me and my Senses

Have a wonderful weekend!

Dates to Diarise:

1 Feb: SS Term Meeting

8 Feb: Abacus Parent Training Evening

12 Feb: CC Term Meeting

14 Feb: Valentine’s Disco (during school)

15 Feb: Haircut Day

20 Feb: Fire Drill

21 Feb: HH Term Meeting

22 Feb: Mid-Term Break Up Day

23 – 26 Feb: Mid Term Break & Camping Weekend

27 Feb: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Gemma and the Busy Bugs Assistants

Busy Bodies!

Me and My Body



THEME

Me and My Body

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COLOUR

Red

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SHAPE

Circle



NUMBER

1

j

LETTER

Aa

I can’t believe it’s already the second week of school. Time sure does fly when you are having fun!

The Pups are starting to settle down more and more, some slowly but surely.

We are all getting to know more about each other which is so wonderful! The Pups loved learning about this week’s theme: My Body. It was so much fun counting our body parts. We focused mainly on our eyes, ears, nose and mouth. We spoke about being kind to each other and respecting other people’s space. We also reminded the Pups how important it is to say please and thank you.

We sang some songs like “Lions and Tigers” and “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” I’m sure all of you know that song. He-he!

For this week’s art activity, we coloured in a body and labelled the body parts, and we also enjoyed drawing on a big piece of paper. We are so impressed with how clever these little ones are – They knew all the body parts including where the eyebrows and eyelashes are!

Over all they the Pups a busy week playing, learning and dancing, also enjoying our first yoga session!. Wow, we all had such a wonderful time!

I hope you all have a wonderful, happy, and exciting weekend. See you all next week.

Next week’s theme is: My Senses

Have a wonderful weekend!

Dates to Diarise:

1 Feb: SS Term Meeting

8 Feb: Abacus Parent Training Evening

12 Feb: CC Term Meeting

14 Feb: Valentine’s Disco (during school)

15 Feb: Haircut Day

20 Feb: Fire Drill

21 Feb: HH Term Meeting

22 Feb: Mid-Term Break Up Day

23 – 26 Feb: Mid Term Break & Camping Weekend

27 Feb: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Monette and the Playful Pups Assistants

Busy Bodies!

Me and My Body



THEME

Me & My Body



COLOUR

Red



SHAPE

Circle



NUMBER

1

j

LETTER

Aa

We started the week off with ring time where we 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 songs.

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!

Mathematics: This week we traced the numbers “1-4” in our workbook followed by writing the numbers independently using the correct number formation.

Cooking: For our cooking class this week, the Squad formed their own “bodies” using cookie dough as well as adding in their choc chip eyes and mouth. Hmmmm…. these looked delicious when they came out of the oven, 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.

Thank you and have a great weekend. See you all on Monday.

We Wanna Know ...

Do you have a favourite memory from Pre School? Tell us about it on your class WhatsApp group!

Dates to Diarise:

27 Jan: Bonfire Picnic

15 Feb: Haircut Day

17 Feb: Valentines Disco

20 Feb: Fire Drill

21 Feb: Curious Crew Term meeting

24 – 27 Feb: Mid Term Break

28 Feb: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Carla, Teacher Hayley and the Smart Squad Assistants

Our Smart Squad!

Me and My Body

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THEME

Me & My Body

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COLOUR

Red

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SHAPE

Circle

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NUMBER

1

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LETTER

Aa

It has been a great successful week in the Curious Crew class! The Crew are so comfortable in there new environment and are all enjoy coming to school with very few tears. We had a great learning week with our theme having so much to discuss regarding our bodies and learning about important body parts like our hearts , lungs , kidneys etc .

We did quite a few art activities this week. Teacher Clarissa really thought of a fun and exciting way to explain the components of blood using a plastic bottle and

Red Orbeez for blood
Red plastic for red blood cells
Polystyrene balls for white blood cells
Yellow food colouring in water for Plasma

This week we focused on tracing and practicing our name writing , as well as our cutting skills , this is something that will be a main focus throughout the week.

Helpful tips of the week: The most important rule in our class is to ‘Keep your hands to yourself’ (Our action for this, when telling the Crew, is giving themselves a hug). As much fun as it is to hang on to and hold our friends, most of the time it ends up in tears rather than smiles. If you as parents could please chat to your children at home about this rule and respecting their friends’ personal space, class time and playtime will run much smoother.

Next week’s theme: My senses

We Wanna Know ...

Do you have a favourite memory from Pre School? Tell us about it on your class WhatsApp group!

Dates to Diarise:

27 Jan: Bonfire Picnic

15 Feb: Haircut Day

17 Feb: Valentines Disco

20 Feb: Fire Drill

21 Feb: Curious Crew Term meeting

24 – 27 Feb: Mid Term Break

28 Feb: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Ash and the Curious Crew Assistants

Our Curious Crew!

Me and My Body

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THEME

Me & My Body

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COLOUR

Red

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SHAPE

Circle

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NUMBER

1

j

LETTER

Aa

This week has been lovely, with our Hoppers settling into routine, and forming those very important bonds with their friends and teachers. We have enjoyed getting to know all the children and their individual personality quirks.

This week our theme was “My body”! We have had so much fun learning about our bodies and loved doing the activities for this theme. We have been focusing a lot on fine motor skills this week, with exercises such as; glueing buttons, finger paintng and drawing self portraits.

Our activities this week included a finger dot painting where the children created ants for our letter of the week. This activity helped our learners with letter recognition and pronunciation. They also put their fine motor skills to work where they glued little buttons onto a worksheet which displayed our number of the week, number one! Last but not least, our self portraits! Our kiddies completed a “I Can Draw Myself” worksheet where they drew their interpretations of themselves. We love self portraits from our kiddies as it gives us the perfect opportunity to see the children’s drawing development over the year!

Our Hoppers sure do love their music and movement sessions on the mat! This in the perfect time to wiggle all those sillies out and have a good giggle with friends! We also played some music intruments and tried to follow the beat to our our songs. They all did an amazing job!

We also did some gross motor stretching exercises and had fun learning songs and following a clap rythym, we especially enjoyed “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”. We spoke about the abilties of our body parts. Hands can throw and feed us, feet help us walk, mouths help us talk. We also spoke about our organs inside our bodies, our hearts, brains and many different body functions.

Happy Hoppers Yoga Day.

It was so awesome being back at school and seeing all my yogis again and a very big welcome to our new yoga friends.

Today was a refresher of a few poses we did last year.

We warmed up with our yoga rap song and finished the session off with breathing techniques and 2min of quiet time.

We kicked off our FunFit Sports program this week! Coach Dave gave the Hoppers quite a tricky activity to start the year off with, but all the boys and girls did so well! Each Hopper took on the wooden balancing course and although they did come across some challenges, they did an amazing job, well done Happy Hoppers!

Cooking this week, Wednesday we had fun learning basic skills like buttering and cutting our bread for our snack and for Fridays cooking session we made marie biscuit faces. We covered the marie biscuits with icing and gave our hoppers a variety of sweets to choose from to make to make a face, this was so much fun!

It has been such a fun week of learning!

Our theme next week is: My Senses.

Have a safe and lovely weekend!

We Wanna Know ...

Do you have a favourite memory from Pre School? Tell us about it on your class WhatsApp group!

Dates to Diarise:

27 Jan: Bonfire Picnic

15 Feb: Haircut Day

17 Feb: Valentines Disco

20 Feb: Fire Drill

21 Feb: Curious Crew Term meeting

24 – 27 Feb: Mid Term Break

28 Feb: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Kate-Lynn, Teacher Katy and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

Our Happy Hoppers!

Me and My Body

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THEME

Me & My Body

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COLOUR

Red

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SHAPE

Circle

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NUMBER

1

j

LETTER

Aa

I can’t believe it’s already the second week of school. Time sure does fly when you are having fun!

The Pups are starting to settle down more and more, some slowly but surely.

We are all getting to know more about each other which is so wonderful! The Pups loved learning about this week’s theme: My Body. It was so much fun counting our body parts. We focused mainly on our eyes, ears, nose and mouth. We spoke about being kind to each other and respecting other people’s space. We also reminded the Pups how important it is to say please and thank you.

For this week’s art activity, we painted the Pups’ hands and made rainbow handprints on paper. I can’t wait to see these tiny hands grow in the future! On Thursday the Pups went to Yoga with Teacher Nicole and, oh my goodness, this was such a treat and so much fun! The Pups learnt six yoga poses. They warmed up to our “Fly like a Butterfly” song and finished the session off with breathing techniques and quiet time.

Over all they had a busy week playing, learning and dancing. Wow, we all had such a wonderful time! The Pups also went to FunFit Sports with Coach Dave which they absolutely loved.

I hope you all have a wonderful, happy and exciting weekend. See you all next week.

Next week’s theme is: My Senses

We Wanna Know ...

Do you have a favourite memory from Pre School? Tell us about it on your class WhatsApp group!

Dates to Diarise:

27 Jan: Bonfire Picnic

15 Feb: Haircut Day

17 Feb: Valentines Disco

20 Feb: Fire Drill

21 Feb: Curious Crew Term meeting

24 – 27 Feb: Mid Term Break

28 Feb: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Cecilia and the Playful Pups Assistants

Our Playful Pups!

Me and My Body

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THEME

Me & My Body

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COLOUR

Red

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SHAPE

Circle

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NUMBER

1

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LETTER

Aa

Welcome to the first Busy Bugs blog of 2023!

We are really settling into a nice routine now and our Bugs are getting into the swing of things! We started with some fun art activities and extra mural demos this week and it is starting to feel like the holidays are well and truly behind us and that the new year has officially begun! We are seeing great things from our Bugs, and we are very proud of them.

“Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Knees and Toes!” What a fun week with an exciting theme to go along with it! We are very proud to say that our Bugs know all of their body parts, including some of the trickier ones like ankle, elbow and chest! We just love how practical and hands on this theme can be and we love the excited looks on our Bugs faces when they point excitedly to a body part they know!

As a fun learning activity this week, the Bugs were each given a label from our theme board and asked to find and label the correct parts of Teacher Monette. They of course thought this was the funniest thing ever and seeing Teacher Monette at the end with labels stuck all the way from her hair to her toes made everyone laugh even more!

We chatted about our moral theme, respecting other people’s personal space, and we all drew bubbles around us in the air. Our teachers explained that no one is allowed into your bubble if you don’t allow it. We then did an activity where we asked our friends for hugs. If they said it was okay, we moved into their space to give a hug. If they said no, we respected their choice. We also chatted about things like “What happens when your body gets hungry?” and then “Where does food go when you eat it?” Also, “What happens if you don’t brush your teeth?” We had a great time engaging their existing knowledge of the topic and then building on it.

Even though our number for the week was 1, we can happily report that most of our Bugs can count up to 5. We played a game at ring time where each of them had to go and find ONE RED thing in the class. What a fun game! We had red shoes, blocks and books! Well done, Busy Bugs!

For our art activity this week, we used our nose, chin and fingertips to make a colourful free painting. Some of the Bugs were super into it, and wanted their entire face painted! And others… not so much. This is okay, because as long they are exploring and “doing”, they are learning!

We enjoyed a lot of “firsts” this week and the Bugs LOVED them all!

We look forward to spending many more, happy weeks with these awesome Bugs!

Have a great weekend and we will see you next week for one of our favourite themes!

We Wanna Know ...

Do you have a favourite memory from Pre School? Tell us about it on your class WhatsApp group!

Dates to Diarise:

27 Jan: Bonfire Picnic

15 Feb: Haircut Day

17 Feb: Valentines Disco

20 Feb: Fire Drill

21 Feb: Curious Crew Term meeting

24 – 27 Feb: Mid Term Break

28 Feb: Back to School