recycling

Caring For The World: Recycling

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Recycling

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Green

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Triangle & Pyramid

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19

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LETTER

Rr – Recycling

Moral conscious theme: IB Principle- Risk Takers- We explained to the Squad that being a risk taker means trying new things or doing something even if you’re not sure how it will turn out. We explained this in a simple relatable way, such as when you try riding a bike without training wheels for the first time, or when you stand up in front of class to talk about something you care about. It’s about being brave and not being afraid to learn from mistakes or explore new ideas.

Writing and Phonics: This week, we concentrated on words from the “ag” family and practiced breaking down letter sounds to create word families. The Squad then completed a worksheet where they matched words with the correct pictures by sounding out the letters. The children are understanding word families effectively, and we’re very pleased as teachers. Additionally, we introduced two new sight words, “to” and “do”. We encourage you to continue practicing these sight words at home, especially during the upcoming mid-term break.

Mathematics: For mathematics this week, we worked on addition problems up to 10 using the number line and practiced counting forward and backward to 30. We also concentrated on counting in 2’s up to 10. We’re delighted to share that they are mastering this skill correctly, so we encourage you to ask them at home—you’ll be amazed and proud of their progress!

Creative Art: The Squad made their own “monsters” making use of recycled materials in the Art Studio. This art activity was fantastic for demonstrating to the Squad how recycled materials can be transformed into almost anything. They were chuffed with their unique creations. We have also been working on Art pieces for the Concert and Art Expo, we cannot wait for you to see!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Recycling turns things into other things ... which is like MAGIC!

Dates to Diarise:

28 June: Book Character Dress Up Day & Mid Term Break Up Day

8 July: Back To School

Lots of love

Teacher Carla, Teacher Hayley and the Smart Squad Assistants

Our Squad!

Caring For Our World: Recycling

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THEME

Recycling

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COLOUR

Green

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SHAPE

Triangle & Pyramid

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NUMBER

19

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LETTER

Rr – Recycling

We just couldn’t be more proud of the Curious Crew! With every ring discussion everyone had something to add about saving the world and throwing away rubbish! They understand the importance of recycling and really enjoy making things to reuse. 

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! It’s easy to do!

This week our theme was all about going green for our world!  We spoke about the three R’s

Reduce – cutting back on the amount of rubbish we make.

Reuse – Finding a new way to use rubbish so we don’t have to throw it away.

Recycle – Making something new out of rubbish.

 Being a short week we were super busy with work! In this week we did a lovely colouring in activity and I must say they Crews fine motor skills are coming along so nicely. Their coming in has become neater, with a use of a whole rainbow of colours.

As our Art activity for the week we made a little game using recycled material. The Crew painted their boards of cut out cereal boxes and we drew noughts and crosses on bottle caps to make the game tick tac toe. We hope you enough a few games at home with your upcycled little game.

The Crew practiced some number formation in reusable books and we played a fun number hunt game. The Crews counting is coming along so well and we are going into the 30’s now with our rote counting!! This is just super.

The Crew got started on some Art Expo Art. Wow and it’s looking amazing but top secret.

Our Letter Challenge is well under way and it has been such a pleasure marking and commenting on your child’s lovely work. Keep up the great work Crew and Parents.

Next week will be our last week at school before our week long mid-term break. And on the 28th of June your child’s first report for the year will be going out. So exciting!

Next week’s theme: Winter, Temperatures, Fire and Ice

Recycling turns things into other things ... which is like MAGIC!

Dates to Diarise:

28 June: Book Character Dress Up Day & Mid Term Break Up Day

8 July: Back To School

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Tegan and the Curious Crew Assistants

Our Crew!

Caring For Our World: Recycling

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THEME

Recycling

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COLOUR

Green

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Triangle & Pyramid

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NUMBER

7

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LETTER

Rr – Recycling

I can’t believe we are almost at the end of June already. It feels like just the another day our new Hoppers had just started school.

This week was all about recycling. This is a huge favourite for our Ecokids as this is what we are all about. Looking after our world is so important. We spoke about what it means to recycle. This isn’t an easy concept for our Hoppers to understand but we are sure they got the just of it by the end of the week. We sang lots of recycling songs and they definitely know the words REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE.

Our art activity was a huge hit this week as we made our own recycled paper. We used paper shedding and water in a huge basin. The Hoppers had so much fun mixing and stirring the paper into the water. Some Hoppers loved the feeling mixing the paper and water together and others not so much.

We went on a lovely nature walk to collect all sorts of sticks and pinecones but mostly to check if our school is clean and pick up papers.

At Yoga, the Hoppers worked on their bilateral integration [2 sides of the body working together to perform a task in a co-ordinated way]

Please remember not to send sick children to school. Pump them up with a lot of vitamins.

LABEL ALL BELONGINGS.

Have a wonderful weekend.

See you all on Monday.

Next week’s theme is Winter, Temperatures, Fire, and Ice

Recycling turns things into other things ... which is like MAGIC!

Dates to Diarise:

28 June: Book Character Dress Up Day & Mid Term Break Up Day

8 July: Back To School

Lots of love

Teacher C, Teacher Yolandie and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

Our Hoppers!

Caring For Our World: Recycling

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THEME

Recycling

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COLOUR

Green

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SHAPE

Triangle & Pyramid

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NUMBER

2

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LETTER

Rr – Recycling

What an exciting and important theme this is for all of us at EcoKids Preschool! This is what we’re all about! This is who we are! We had a wonderful and informative week, learning all about recycling and reusing instead of just throwing things away.

This week, we learned that there are four main types of recyclables: paper, plastic, glass, and tins. We also discovered that a lot of rubbish that isn’t recycled ends up in the oceans, hurting sea creatures and polluting the water!

We even had a practical activity where the Pups threw papers in the dustbin and cleaned their hands afterwards to make sure they were germ-free. The Pups did such a fantastic job!

For art this week, the Pups and teachers teamed up. We sprinkled grated wax crayon on wax paper, then cut out old plastic bags that said RECYCLE and placed them in the middle of the wax paper with the wax crayons. Teacher Tebeth then used an iron to melt the wax paper, creating a stunning mix of colours. We wrapped the colourful creations around formula tins, turning them into upcycled “dustbins” for your bread plastics and bread tags. Once you and your Pup fill the tin, please bring it to school so we can use them for our nappy-changing stations for the little ones – we are always REDUCING, REUSING, AND RECYCLING!

We also worked hard on our Art Expo projects, making them as exciting as possible. The Pups absolutely loved painting and sticking different objects!

Another wonderful event this week was welcoming two more Pups to our class. We are so happy to have them join our EcoKids family!

Recycling turns things into other things ... which is like MAGIC!

Dates to Diarise:

28 June: Book Character Dress Up Day & Mid Term Break Up Day

8 July: Back To School

Lots of love

Teacher Monette and the Playful Pups Assistants

Our Pups!

Caring For Our World: Recycling

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THEME

Recycling

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COLOUR

Green

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SHAPE

Triangle & Pyramid

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NUMBER

7

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LETTER

Rr – Recycling

“Stamp, Stamp Clap! (X4) 

We love animals, plants and birds! We love snails and slugs! 

Large and small, we love them all! And we never ever step on bugs! 

Because… we’re the children of Ecokids 

We love nature, the sun and the trees! The rain that helps plants grow! 

Paper, Plastic, Glass and tin our recycling rules we know! 

Because… we’re the children of Ecokids” 

What you have just read is our school song. It is such a fun song to sing and really shows everything that we as a school stand for.  

What an informative and exciting week we have had! We learned all about recycling and the different materials we use to recycle. We got to feel glass bottles, plastic, paper and tin and see different variations of products made from these materials. Bags, bottles, lids and plugs made from plastic. Toilet paper, toilet rolls and the books we read made from paper. Bottles, windows, bowls made of glass and formula tins, food tins, coldrink cans and the container where all this cool stuff is kept made from tin/metal.  

We played a super fun recycling game, where the Bugs got to choose a piece of “rubbish” from a pile, and sort it into the correct recycling bins of our gorgeous recycling station.

Art this week was slightly challenging as most of our art we send home is recycled art. So we thought, what could be better for recycled art then… recyclable material sculptures!!! We used all bits and bobs that have been sent in by students and parents over the years to create these amazing sculptures. The Bugs got to select from a large quantity of recyclable materials that we had poked holes in, and thread them onto a stick stuck on a Purity bottle lid base. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to see these beautiful creations just yet… You’re going to have to wait for Art Expo! 

We also decorated our beautiful envelopes that our reports will be going home in next week!

Our favorite songs for the week was “Reduce, reuse, recycle” 

“Reduce, reuse, recycle, recycle, recycle. 

Reduce, reuse, recycle, it’s easy to do. 

‘Cos your trash and my trash make up way too much trash. 

Reduce, reuse, recycle, it’s easy to do!” 

Please keep in mind the beautiful words of Dr. Seuss. 

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot. Nothing is going to change, it’s not.” 

We hope you have a lovely weekend and stay warm!  

Next week’s theme: 

Winter, Temperatures, Fire and Ice

Next week’s show and tell: Connor and Mudiwa

Recycling turns things into other things ... which is like MAGIC!

Dates to Diarise:

28 June: Book Character Dress Up Day & Mid Term Break Up Day

8 July: Back To School

Lots of love

Teacher Gemma, Teacher Ash and the Busy Bugs Assistants

Our Bugs!

Caring For Our World – Recycling

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THEME

Caring For Our World – Recycling

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Green

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Triangle/Pyramid

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18

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LETTER

Rr- Recycling

This week , we really took the time to explain our theme thoroughly in our morning theme discussions, we spoke about the importance of Recycling , we also discussed what materials can be recycled and how they get divided into 4 different bins we also sang our recycling song too. we also in our morning rings , counted , went over our colour of the week , number and shape too.

We practiced our concert songs and dances , and boy everyone is doing it so well.

For art this week , we did a very cute “Reduce , Reuse , Recycle colouring in work sheet. And this came out so cute as everyone tried their best to colour in so so well

We also did a crossing midline worksheet as well as a counting and cutting worksheet.

FUNFIT SPORTS
This week we had a super busy and funfilled lesson with Coach Trevor , this week we had to show coach Trevor just what we made of , we had to climb , skip , kick , hop and so much more !!!

YOGA :

Curious Crew Yoga:
Today we focused on hand coordination and strengthening by using our wooden stick and rolling it between our hands (making a fire)
This basic exercise reduces feelings of stress and helps improve motor control and aids in motor memory for learning movements involved in fine motor tasks. Using both hands together in a coordinated movement is a skill required for writing and using scissors

In addition, our yogis had to use their core muscles aswell as their upper body strength to grab hold of the wooden stick by using the superman pose. Using their core and upper body, the yogis then had to grab hold of the stick and keep their tummy tight and body straight, and arms and elbows off the ground for 10 seconds. This exercise aids in strengthing the muscles around the spine as well as inner core.

BAKING :

For baking this week , we used recycled cups , and we made worms in dirt , using oreos for the soil and gummy worms for the earth worms , the class loved this idea and were all looking so forward to enjoying their little snack.

FAREWELL TO DAMON

Today we say goodbye to our very special Damon , as him and his family embark on their new adventure in Australia, we wish them the best of luck with the journeys that lay ahead , we pray you have a safe flight and that you and your family get settled soon.

We are going to miss Damon’s cute smile , Dinosaur stories , and cute head of curls , he will always have a special place in the Curious Crew class.*

Overall it was a busy week in the curious crew class.

May everyone have a blessed weekend.

Next weeks theme : Sports and Fathers Day

REDUCE ... REUSE ... RECYCLE!

Dates to Diarise:

15 June: Bike-a-Thon

16 June: Youth Day

23 June: Book Character Dress Up Day

23 June: Break Up Day

26, 27, 28, 20, 30 June: Mid Term Break

3 July: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Ash and the Curious Crew Assistants

Our Green Ambassadors!

Caring For Our World: Recycling

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THEME

Recycling

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COLOUR

Green

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SHAPE

Triangle/Pyramid

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NUMBER

19

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LETTER

Rr – Recycling

The concert is around the corner, and we are getting ready to sing and dance. We are so excited for you to see your children in their costumes!

Assessments are being finalised over the next two weeks and reports will be going out on the last day of school before the mid-term break. We are pleased with the Squad’s progress, and we are sure that you will be too!

Writing and Phonics: This week was solely focused on letter formation, we have been practicing using the ‘cat-method’ and explaining to the children that we have short letters (a,c,e, etc.), tall letters (b, d, f, etc.) and we have long letters (y, g, j, etc.). They are grasping this well, even though some letters are being written in reverse – this is still age-appropriate and with practice they will be writing correctly in no time! We introduced three new sight words, ‘and’, ‘dad’, and ‘mom’. Ask your little one over the weekend if they can recognise their sight words. We find that sticking some of them all over the house is a great way to introduce incidental learning.

Maths: We learnt about time this week. Wow, these precious children were so excited to learn how to tell the time! We have only started with telling hours and will slowly introduce minutes. They completed a worksheet where they had to write the type by looking at the clock (example, 12:00) and they also had to draw the hands of the clock facing the correct numbers. They are truly growing up so fast!

Afrikaans: We recapped our numbers, greetings, colours, and then we looked at the different fruits. The Squad really enjoy learning Afrikaans and always try to pronounce the words as best as they can.

Life Skills: This was a lovely moral conscious theme because we touched base on taking responsibility for our belongings and actions. We then discussed consequences and what happens when we don’t act responsibly. We ended off with a chat about caring for our world and how important recycling is for us.

Art: The children thoroughly enjoyed their art pieces. They began by writing a little note for mom and dad. Then they stuck some recycled items onto a board and lastly, they stuck a little picture of themselves onto the board. The Squad are proud of their little keepsake.

It has been a great week!

See you all next week.

… turns things into other things. Which is like MAGIC!

Dates to Diarise:

Hearing Tests: 13 June

Bike-a-Thon: 15 June

Public Holiday: 16 June

School Holiday: 17 June

Book Character Dress Up Day & Break Up Day: 24 June

Mid Term Week Break: 27 June (no school, no Holiday Club)

Back to School: 4 July

Lots of love

Teacher Carla, Teacher Hayley and the Smart Sqaud Assistants

Our Eco-Green-Ambassadors!

Caring For Our World: Recycling

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THEME

Recycling

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COLOUR

Green

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SHAPE

Triangle/Pyramid

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NUMBER

19

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LETTER

Rr – Recycling

This week was so exciting for the Crew because we focused on the term recycling. We were pleased to hear that some of the children already had some knowledge about recycling and how they contribute in their homes. They learnt all about the three R’s…

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! It’s easy to do! Reduce – Cutting back on the amount of rubbish we make. Reuse – Finding a new way to use rubbish so we don’t have to throw it away. Recycle – Making something new out of rubbish.

We have been practicing really hard for our concert and the children are coming along nicely with their songs and moves. Well done Crew! We started the week off with building our very own little pyramids – the children coloured in so nicely and then we formed the pyramids. Great work everyone!

On Wednesday we started our art piece and it was so much fun. The Crew all contributed to a beautiful big rainbow, all made from recycled materials. We hope you love it as much as we do. Each child got to contribute and also helped to cut up all the bits and pieces we used to make it. Rainbows are a symbol of hope and we hope that by educating our younger generation all about waste, recycling and protecting our earth that there is hope for our planet and its future!

We completed a slightly trickier mathematics activity this week where we had to count the number of recycled items in the bin and plot them on a simple chart/graph. We are proud of how they performed! The Crew seem to understand the concept of more but struggle to understand the concept of less/fewer. This might be something to practice at home with basic items around the house. We also practiced our number recognition and number formation – the Crew are coming along nicely!

Next week is such a short week so we decided to start working on our Father’s Day art too! We are actually incorporating the recycling theme into our Father’s Day art and can’t wait to see how they turn out! We have also asked each Curious Crew a few questions about their awesome dads and some of their answers have been so cute! You are going to love their responses.

Please could you complete the next three letters of the letter challenge with your child. You are all doing so well, thank you for the effort!

Home Tip: We are noticing that the Crew are forgetting their manners. Please try to reinforce this at home, please and thank you go a long way. 😊

Next week’s theme: Father’s Day and Sport

Recycling

… turns things into other things. Which is like MAGIC!

Dates to Diarise:

Hearing Tests: 13 June

Bike-a-Thon: 15 June

Public Holiday: 16 June

School Holiday: 17 June

Book Character Dress Up Day & Break Up Day: 24 June

Mid Term Week Break: 27 June (no school, no Holiday Club)

Back to School: 4 July

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Jules and the Curious Crew Assistants

Our Eco-Green-Ambassadors!

Caring For Our World: Recycling

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THEME

Recycling

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COLOUR

Green

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Triangle/Pyramid

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NUMBER

6

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LETTER

Rr – Recycling

Being an eco-friendly school, this is a theme that we are very passionate about! We had a lot of serious theme discussions this week and it warms our hearts to see our young Hoppers so enthusiastic about preserving our planet. Their passion really showed in their artwork!

We started the week off by talking about recycling and what it means to recycle. We spoke about the different coloured bins and what they stand for: green for paper, yellow for plastic, blue for glass and red for tin. Each child was given a recycle bin picture to colour in. After they had coloured in their pictures, there was an array of recycled goods such as plastic tabs, soda can tabs, egg shells and paper. The Hoppers were asked to glue the recycled objects onto the recycling bin and they used wool for the hair, these came out so cute!

To explain how items, we throw away, can be recycled into something cool by reusing them, we created awesome recycled castanets! The Happy Hoppers sponge painted strips of cereal boxes, we then added bottle caps and other bits and pieces of recycled materials making the cutest recycled castanets. Our Hoppers just love them and have so much fun playing with them.

At Cooking, our Hoppers got to add all the ingredients needed to make chocolate cake, once the cake was baked, they added some sour worms. The Hoppers got to help package their delicious treat with recycled packaging. They all had so much fun and couldn’t wait to eat their yummy chocolate cake.

Our Hoppers are hard at work learning concert songs and they are all doing so well with learning the words. We are super proud of them!

It has been a great week filled with fun and creativity!

Have a safe and lovely weekend.

Our theme next week is: Father’s Day and Sport

Recycling

… turns things into other things. Which is like MAGIC!

Dates to Diarise:

Hearing Tests: 13 June

Bike-a-Thon: 15 June

Public Holiday: 16 June

School Holiday: 17 June

Book Character Dress Up Day & Break Up Day: 24 June

Mid Term Week Break: 27 June (no school, no Holiday Club)

Back to School: 4 July

Lots of love

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

Our Eco-Green-Ambassadors!

Caring For Our World: Recycling

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THEME

Recycling

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COLOUR

Green

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SHAPE

Triangle/Pyramid

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NUMBER

6

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LETTER

Rr – Recycling

“Stamp, Stamp Clap! (X4)

We love animals, plants and birds! We love snails and slugs!

Large and small, we love them all! And we never ever step on bugs!

Because… we’re the children of EcoKids

We love nature, the sun and the trees! The rain that helps plants grow!

Paper, Plastic, Glass and Tin our recycling rules we know!

Because… we’re the children of EcoKids”

What you have just read is our school song. It is such a fun song to sing and really shows everything that we as a school stand for.

What an informative and exciting week we have had! We learnt all about recycling and the different materials we use to recycle. We got to feel glass bottles, plastic, paper and tin and we saw different variations of products made from these materials: Bags, bottles, lids and plugs made from plastic. Toilet paper, toilet rolls and the books we read made from paper. Bottles, windows, bowls made of glass and formula tins, food tins, coldrink cans and the container where all this cool stuff is kept made from tin/metal.

Art this week was slightly challenging as most of our art we send home is recycled art. So we thought: what could be better for recycled art than… recyclable material sculptures!!! We used all bits and bobs that have been sent in by students and parents over the years to create these amazing sculptures. The Bugs got to select from a large quantity of recyclable materials that we had poked holes into, and then threaded them onto a stick stuck on an egg carton base.

Our favorite songs for the week was “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”

“Reduce, reuse, recycle, recycle, recycle.

Reduce, reuse, recycle, it’s easy to do.

‘Cos your trash and my trash make up way too much trash.

Reduce, reuse, recycle, it’s easy to do!”

Please keep in mind the beautiful words of Dr. Seuss.

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot. Nothing is going to change, it’s not.”

We hope you have a lovely weekend and stay warm!

Lots of Love

Next week’s theme: Father’s Day and Sports

Next week’s show and tell (on Wednesday): Daniel and Nehal

Recycling

… turns things into other things. Which is like MAGIC!

Dates to Diarise:

Hearing Tests: 13 June

Bike-a-Thon: 15 June

Public Holiday: 16 June

School Holiday: 17 June

Book Character Dress Up Day & Break Up Day: 24 June

Mid Term Week Break: 27 June (no school, no Holiday Club)

Back to School: 4 July

Lots of love

Teacher Gemma, Teacher Monette and the Busy Bugs Assistants

Our Eco-Green-Ambassadors!

Caring For Our World: Recycling

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THEME

Recycling

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COLOUR

Green

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SHAPE

Triangle/Pyramid

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NUMBER

1

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LETTER

Rr – Recycling

What an important theme this is to all of us at EcoKids Preschool! This is what we are all about! This is who we are! We had a wonderful and informative week, learning all about recycling and reusing instead of just throwing things away. We learnt an awesome new song:

“Reduce, reuse, recycle

Recycle, Recycle,

Reduce, reuse, recycle,

It’s easy to do!

Coz your trash and my trash

Make up way too much trash!

Reduce, reuse, recycle

It’s easy to do!”

And our Pups have been heard singing it all week! We learnt that there are four main types of things that are recycled. Paper, plastic, glass and tins. And, a lot of the rubbish that we don’t recycle lands up in the oceans where it hurts sea creatures and pollutes the water! We chatted about all the art that we do and the children saw that every week, we use recycled materials to make our beautiful art pieces! We took a walk to the recycling station and saw the different containers and the BIG, BIG truck that comes to fetch the recycling when we have filled all the bins! We played lots of sorting games, too, making sure the children knew which dustbin in our classroom was the right one for the paper or tin or plastic we gave them. We done, Pups!

For art this week the Pups and teachers worked together. We got them to sprinkle grated wax crayon on wax paper, we then took old plastic bags that say RECYCLE and we cut them out so they could go in the middle of the wax paper with the wax crayons. Teacher Thandy then took an iron and ironed the wax paper and it created this stunning mix of colours which we have placed on formula tins creating an upcycled “dustbin“ for your bread plastics and bread tags to go in. Once you and your Pup/Pup’s fill the tin, please bring it to school so that we can use them for our nappy changing stations for our little ones – we are always REDUCING, REUSING, AND RECYCLING!

We explored a lot this week with all sorts of recycling materials and let the Pups have some free range and choices to make their own creations. This was so interesting to see all the different outcomes

We are also in process of doing reports so you can read all about your precious Pups when we break-up on the 24^th of June.

Another amazing event that happened this week is that two more Pups joined our class, which is so wonderful!

Please have a wonderful and blessed weekend.

Keep warm! Take your vitamins and extra vitamin C!

Next week’s theme: Father’s Day and Sport