Welcome back to Term 3! How time has flown that we are already in our last term of the year !  

We have waited for this theme for months now!  As we started our term off with a super joyful and exciting ring time , we spoke about spring , and all the beautiful things that come with it . We also spoke about the order of the seasons , and what each one entails.  

We enjoyed discussing our interesting colour of the week , and our shape which the kids enjoyed learning about. We also revised our phonic sounds and letters and well as our months of the year too.  

Even though we’ve had a 3 day week , we made the best of the days we’ve had to talk about our theme. .  

ART  

Our art activity for this week , is something small and special , that each family gets to take home and watch grow  . 

Each child was given a small container with an egg carton in as well as soil , they had to plant 2 sunflower seeds in , and water it to take home. PARENTS ITS VERY IMPORTANT TO PLEASE KEEP THESE PLANTS VERY MOIST AND WET

We also enjoyed some fun worksheets , we had to really explore our creative side as we had a free drawing of what we did in the holidays , we had to do a body image drawing too , as well as practicing and revising our number formation 1-20.  

It was the perfect way to start off our 3rd term. 

HEART MATTERS  

Teacher Hela started heart matters off in an amazing way , she focused on the topic of givers and takers , and she did an amazing job teaching the children the difference and explaining that you should feel better in your heart being giver and not a taker.  

The kids enjoyed colouring in hearts and giving them to someone they felt deserved the hearts .  

 Please remember that photos will be taken next week.  

The Curious Crew really enjoyed this theme , they really loved part taking in ring time , learning about plants , trees and paper.  

We took the time during ring time to explain how paper comes from trees , and why it’s so important to look after the trees that we have.  

We spoke about the different plants we get , and we also discussed our favourite plants . Throughout the week too , we spoke about our sunflowers at home , and just how important it is to water our little seeds.

ART 

For Art this week , we did some fun and simple activities that really got our creative juices flowing  

We did a symmetry worksheet , where each child had to copy the leave as they saw the other side , they then had to colour it in aswell. Boy everyone’s colouring is improving so much ! Well done curious crew.  

We also did a perceptual activity , where each child was given a worksheet with different leaves on , once they’ve coloured it in, they had to cut them out and place them with their matching sides. Everyone did so well in this activity.  

We also enjoyed some fun worksheets , where we had to trace our names , and practice our numbers 11-20, it seemed like everyone just enjoyed this way too much !!   

HEART MATTERS*  

Teacher Hela took the time and focused on when we have a low self esteem, she helped the kids understand this , and also practiced ways and methods on dealing with this. It was a very practical way to get the kiddos to understand how to cope.  

YOGA  

Yoga Day!!  

This week we did bilateral tracing patterns, which aid in hand-eye coordination and small motor movements.  

The yogis traced a mirrored pattern using their left and right index fingers simultaneously. 

Coordinating both sides of the body shows that both sides of the brain are communicating and sharing information with each other. 

This activity can also be used as a calming breath technique.  

Teacher Yoga was so impressed with how well our yogis did with the activity!! Well done, my super stars.  

Our Little Spring Chickens!

Term 3. Week 1

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

We have had a lovely full week in the Curious Crew class. We started off our week with a colour by numbers Spring worksheet. The Crew have truly impressed us with how well they ‘read’ their numbers and colours as well as the beautiful colouring in they did. They have grown and matured so much over this holiday.

On our first day back we went on a nature walk to collect some goodies for a pretty Spring ornament, which we will be saving for the art expo (20^th of October-Save the date!) but it will be worth the wait!

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

For numeracy this week, the Crew did a symmetry worksheet where they had to draw the other side of a tree and then they were instructed to draw 10 apples on their tree. It was an interesting activity which challenged them. Great work Crew!

We did a super cool activity on the carpet. The kiddies had their white boards in one hand and a marker in the other. I asked the Crew to draw shapes, numbers 1-10 and to write their names. They loved this activity and did so well!

Letter Challenge is still underway, don’t give up now! We just have a couple of weeks left!

AND this weekend we introduced the PUZZLE CHALLENGE! All details will be sent on the Curious Crew group. It’s exciting and fun!

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

Another successful week in the Curious Crew class! This week we have been super busy with a few different projects and activities. We are getting creative as we prepare for our annual Art Expo, such excitement! As well as working on some very important skills.

Ringtime is one of my favourite class activities! So much learning is done during ringtime and doing it all together encourages everyone to listen as well as learn from each other. This week we introduced counting in 2’s (from 2-10) and we counted in odd numbers (from1-9). Using a number chart, pointing to the numbers we grasped these new concepts. Please try this at home and see how well your child does.

We did quite a complex worksheet this week that had a few different steps for the Crew to follow as well as different skill sets used to complete this task. It makes me so proud to see how far these little people have come since the beginning of the year. They were able to sit for the duration of the activity without getting tired AND the outcome was great! I’m such a proud teacher!

Each week we will be completing fun activities to help the Crew learn their letters. This week during ringtime we went around in the circle and each child has to tell us what the first letter of their name was, almost every child got this correct. YAY! Another fun activity we did: Holding up an alphabet chart, I called up the Crew one by one and I chose a random letter for them to recognise, this was a little more difficult but I was so happy to see the confidence each Crew member had when coming up and finding the letter.

This will be the last week our Letter Challenge books will go out. We have finally come to the end of our fun learning Letter Challenge exercises. Please continue with fun games and talking to your child about letters in general conversation. The best kind of learning is incidental learning. Get creative with this parents.

We apologise for no art for another week but with Art Expo around the corner, we want to really put on a show with many displays of their beautiful artwork.

Lately we have been struggling with some rough play and the children not keeping their hands to themselves. The children know that our number one rule in the class is ‘Keep your hands to yourself!’ If you could please reiterate this at home, especially before school. It just helps to avoid unnecessary fights and unhappy kids.

Congratulations on your first week of the puzzle challenge!! Keep going! Once the kids see a climbing graph it motivates them to get out those puzzles and build. With this little challenge it is so interesting to see what it brings out, some thrive to win and become quite competitive where others refuse point blank to touch a puzzle. All the best parents and don’t forget to update puzzle pieces on the Google Doc.

Next week’s theme: Countries and Cultures

Our Blossoming Crew!