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Ll – Lizard

IB Principle: Thinkers: We explained to the Squad that caring means showing kindness and compassion towards others. It’s about being a good friend and thinking about how our actions might affect someone else’s feelings. Just like how you feel happy when someone is nice to you, we want to make others feel happy too! We gave them examples to relate to, such as, sharing toys or books with friends, helping someone who is feeling sad or hurt, being kind to animals and taking care of them and planting trees and taking care of the earth.

Writing and Phonics: This week in phonics, the Squad concentrated on recognizing beginning sounds and syllable segmentation through clapping. They also explored the ‘at’ word family. To reinforce their learning, they completed a worksheet matching words to corresponding images along with writing sentences in their workbooks using these words. Additionally, we introduced two new sight words, ‘go’ and ‘so’, which we encourage you to continue practicing with your child at home.”

Mathematics: In mathematics this week, the Squad focused on counting to 30 and backward as well as practiced counting in multiples of 2, 5, and 10. They then tackled a worksheet on tallying, showcasing their understanding of data recording by grouping marks in sets of 5, using vertical lines and a diagonal line to represent 5. We are thrilled with the Squad’s dedication to understanding this tricky concept and their perseverance in applying it accurately. Keep up the fantastic work, Squad!

Creative Art: This week in art, the Squad has been creating an exciting art piece for our upcoming Art Expo in 0ctober, inspired by our theme for the week ‘Reptiles’. They’ve had a blast bringing their ideas to life, and we’re keeping the final masterpiece under wraps until the big reveal at the Art Expo. The Squad is super excited to share their creative work with you – it’s going to be a fantastic showcase!

Wishing you all a lovely weekend. 

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

Lots of love

Teacher Carla, Teacher Hayley and the Smart Squad Assistants

Our Squad!

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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

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Tegan and the Curious Crew Assistants

Our Crew!

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Ll – Lizard

We had an action-packed week, we’re sure the Hoppers must be exhausted from all the fun that was had.  

  We started off the week revising our letter of the week. We sang and danced to our jolly phonics letters and read our letter land book ,Lucy Lamp Lady. After our story, we went around the class and each Hopper got to tell us a word starting with the letter “L’’. Well done, Hoppers! 

 For our Art this week the Hoppers coloured in a snake and practiced their cutting skills and cut their snake into a spiral. I am so proud of our Hoppers, they did a fantastic job! This was a fun fine motor skills activity, and the children were incredibly happy with their snakes. 

We focused a lot on number recognition 1 to 10. This is very important to be able to achieve this skill before going to Curious Crew next year so please keep practising Hoppers.

 The highlight of the week was the reptile show. Julian from Wild Ones showed us his amazing and wonderful animals. The huge tarantula was a hit as well as the snakes. 

On Friday for Yoga, we practiced our Reptile Yoga poses. We also focused a lot on spinal twist exercises, which activates the spinal nerves and enhances flexibility and blood circulation. 

  Concert practice has been in full swing this week; our Hoppers are doing so well. We are so proud of them and cannot wait for the big day! I’m sure most of you already know all our songs, so happy to hear our Hoppers are practicing at home. Keep it up! 

  Our theme next week is: Space 

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

Lots of love

Teacher C, Teacher Yolandie and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

Our Hoppers!

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Ll – Lizard

This is such an exciting week – the children love it so much! They know a whole lot about sssssslithery snakes and tortoises, lizards and crocodiles, chameleons and turtles and we have loved having the opportunity to expand their knowledge this week! We have managed to have very long and involved ring time discussions, picking a different animal each day, and discussing it in depth! Reptiles are Teacher Gemma’s favorite thing so she knows more than the average Joe about them! The children learned a lot of new vocabulary like “cold blooded”, “vertebrates” and “camouflage” and had an absolute blast exploring our theme. 

For art this week we made an awesome art piece, but unfortunately, you won’t be able to see it yet as they were just so cute, we decided to keep them for Art Expo!  

Wednesday was by far our most exciting day of the week, as Julian, the snake-man, brought his lovely animas for us to see. There were snakes, lizards, geckos, spiders, gogo’s, frogs and even a chinchilla. Some of the Bugs were “all hands on deck”, and petted every single animal. Others were a little bit weary and chose to rather view from afar. 

We have also been hard at work preparing and practicing for our concert. Our Bugs have made us so proud! We hope you enjoy the show as much as we have enjoyed getting ready for it! 

Thank you for a lovely and exciting week! We are looking forward to another jam packed one next week ….   

Our question of the week.

Are you a snake person?? A) Absolutely! B) Hell NOPE! We look forward to your answers…  

Next Week’s Theme: Space (and lots of concert prep!) 

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

Lots of love

Teacher Gemma, Teacher Ash and the Busy Bugs Assistants

Our Bugs!

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Ll – Lizard

This week was super busy and exciting! Our Pups were thrilled to be back from holiday after the mid-term. They couldn’t wait to reunite with their friends and meet the new friends who started on Monday.

We did lots of fun activities this week. The Pups loved drawing with chalk on the floor, using their imaginations to create pictures. Some drew airplanes, and others drew ice cream—so cute! We also did some colour recognition exercises with Teacher Monette, who called each Pup one by one to show her different colours. They all did amazing!

We went all out practicing our concert songs and dance moves for the upcoming concert. I can’t wait to see all our lovely Pups shine on that day!

For art, we made little geckos using mostly recycled items. We used empty espresso capsules for the gecko’s eyes and ice cream sticks for its legs. The Pups also painted paper plates for the body. It was such a creative and eco-friendly project!

In yoga, we practiced our reptile poses and focused on spinal twist exercises. These exercises activate the spinal nerves and enhance flexibility and blood circulation. Yay for Yoga Day!

We also had a blast with Little Kickers this week, practicing our hand-eye coordination by throwing and catching a ball. The Pups did amazing!

A highlight of the week was the reptile show on Wednesday. The Pups couldn’t believe what they saw! Some of them were very brave and touched the reptiles being shown, while others kept their distance but were still very curious. Seeing their big eyes light up as the snakes and spiders came close was definitely something special.

Well done, everyone!

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

Lots of love

Teacher Monette and the Playful Pups Assistants

Our Pups!

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Welcome back! We hope the Squad have rested well over this mid-term and we can’t wait for another term of lots of learning and fun!

Moral conscious theme: Words can hurt- Speak nicely.

We explained to the Squad that words hurt more than what they think, they need to think about what they say to friends before saying it as well as think about how they would feel if someone said those words to them. We need to show kindness and care towards our friends and be considerate of their feelings.

Writing and Phonics: This week Squad worked hard on remembering our sight words and received two new sight words for this week “an”, and “we”. The Squad then a dd a worksheet on the “at” family, they had to match the correct words with the pictures followed by tracing each word and writing it independently.

Mathematics: The Squad completed a fun counting worksheet. They counted the amount of beans and then cut out the numbers and stuck them under the correct amount of beans, we are very proud of how they grasped this concept well needing very little assistance!

Creative Art: The Squad decorated their very own snakes using paint by making patterns and then added glitter, they thoroughly enjoyed this art activity.

Music: We have been working very hard on learning and practicing for our concert coming up, the Squad is so excited and can’t wait to show their family an awesome performance!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND ...

See you all on Monday!

Dates to Diarise:

12 July: Haircut Day

15 July: EcoKids Concert

18 July: Nelson Mandela Day

21 July: Eye Screening

Lots of love

Teacher Carla, Teacher Hayley and the Smart Squad Assistants

Our Cute Little Creatures!

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Ll – Letter

This week the Curious Crew class had the best time with the theme! We had a great amount of fun during ring time, speaking about our favourite reptiles , and we discussed what reptiles are , and what makes a reptile a reptile. We spoke about them having cold blood and a hard skin , and that they lay eggs too. We also discussed their living environment and how they differ. 

AND we had a SUPER awesome visitor on Wednesday at school , we had the coolest reptiles come visit us at school and we got to touch and hold different reptiles, it was hands down the best day of the week. 

For art this week , we had so much fun ! We made our very own reptile booklets , which we had the best time creating, and we made the cutest hexagon Turtles , each child had to colour in , and cut out their own hexagons , and make their own turtles , we loved how each turtle came out so differently and beautifully. 

YOGA 

Welcome back after our mid-term break 

After doing our warm ups and stretches, we played broken telephone.

The benefits of this game are:

Improved communication and listening skills by encouraging kids to listen and focus to the words being said and to correctly relay the information to their friend. 

We had some very funny messages being passed along. One sentence in particular ” the yellow sun shines” came out at as “the yellow donkey” 

Heart matters

In Heart Matters this week , Teacher Hela spoke about expected and unexpected reactions and emotions. She explained how things can happen unexpectedly and then we react accordingly to that action. 

FUNFIT SPORTS 

This week we had a super fun lesson with coach Trevor , he hyped us up so much , and really ensured we enjoyed our lessons with him. 

For the boys , they were divided into two teams , and they were placed with a bucket full of balls, and then coach Trevor called out a colour , and the teams had to take out all the colour balls before the time ran out. 

For the girls , the girls climbing skills were put to the test , each girl was given a small amount of time to climb up and climb back down before the buzzer went off. 

It was overall a fun and very educational week for the Curious Crew. 

Next theme : Space ️

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND ...

See you all on Monday!

Dates to Diarise:

12 July: Haircut Day

15 July: EcoKids Concert

18 July: Nelson Mandela Day

21 July: Eye Screening

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Ash and the Curious Crew Assistants

Our Cute Little Creatures!

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Ll – Letter

We had an action-packed week, we’re sure the Hoppers must be exhausted from all the fun that was had.

We started off the week revising our letter of the week. We sang and danced to our jolly phonics letters and read our letter land book Lucy Lamp Light. After our story, we went around the class and each Hopper got to tell us a word starting with the letter “L’’. We got some interesting words like Liquorice, Leg, Lego, Lips, and Listen. Well done, Hoppers!

For our art this week the Hoppers coloured in a snake and practiced their cutting skills and cut their snake into a spiral. So proud of our Hoppers they did a great job! This was a fun fine motor skills activity and the children were very happy with their snakes.

The highlight of the week was the reptile show. Julian from Wild Ones showed us all of his amazing and wonderful animals. The huge tarantula “Charlotte” was a hit as well as the snakes and the very fluffy cute Guinea pig.

On Monday for FunFit sport, Coach Trevor shouted out a colour, the Hoppers had to run to the buckets of balls and collect as many of that colour they could. This was so much for how Hoppers.

On Tuesday for yoga, after doing their warm ups and stretches, they played broken telephone. The benefits of this game are: Improved communication and listening skills by encouraging kids to listen and focus to the words being said and to correctly relay the information to their friend. We had some very funny messages being passed along. One message in particular ” happy” came out as ” piano”

Concert practice has been in full swing this week; our Hoppers are doing so well. We are so proud of them and cannot wait for the big day! I’m sure most of you already know all our songs, so happy to hear our Hoppers are practicing at home. Keep it up!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND ...

See you all on Monday!

Dates to Diarise:

12 July: Haircut Day

15 July: EcoKids Concert

18 July: Nelson Mandela Day

21 July: Eye Screening

Lots of love

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

Our Cute Little Creatures!

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Reptiles

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Ll – Letter

This is such an exciting week – the children love it so much! They know a whole lot about sssssslithery snakes and tortoises, lizards and crocodiles, chameleons and turtles and we have loved having the opportunity to expand their knowledge this week! We have managed to have very long and involved ring time discussions, picking a different animal each day, and discussing it in depth! Reptiles are Teacher Gemma’s favorite thing so she knows more than the average Joe about them! The children learned a lot of new vocabulary like “cold blooded”, “vertebrates” and “camouflage” and had an absolute blast exploring our theme.

For art this week we made colourful, camouflage chameleon, by tearing little pieces of coloured paper and sticking them onto a chameleon outline.

We also made another awesome art piece, but unfortunately, you won’t be able to see it yet as they were just so cute, we decided to keep them for art expo!

Wednesday was by far our most exciting day of the week, as Julian, the snake-man, brought his lovely animas for us to see. There were snakes, lizards, geckos, spiders, gogo’s, frogs and even hairless guinea pigs. Some of the Bugs were “all hands on deck”, and petted every single animal. Others were a little bit weary and chose to rather view from afar.

We have also been hard at work preparing and practicing for our concert next week Saturday. Our Bugs have made us so proud! We hope you enjoy the show as much as we have enjoyed getting ready for it!

Thank you for a lovely and exciting week! We are looking forward to another jam packed one next week ….

And just to bring back our question of the week. Are you a snake person?? A) Absolutely! B) Hell NOPE! We look forward to your answers…

Next Week’s Theme: Space (and lots of concert prep!)

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND ...

See you all on Monday!

Dates to Diarise:

12 July: Haircut Day

15 July: EcoKids Concert

18 July: Nelson Mandela Day

21 July: Eye Screening

Lots of love

Teacher Gemma, Teacher Monette and the Busy Bugs Assistants

Our Cute Little Creatures!

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Ll – Letter

Wow! What a busy, busy week we have had! Where do I even begin?

We started off the week by making the cutest turtles. The Pups loved painting the shells green and then printing yellow toilet roll circles on them. Teacher Cecilia helped with sticking the heads, eyes, and legs wherever they showed her too. The Pups loved learning about all the reptiles and at ring time most of the Pups could tell me the names of the reptiles on the theme board. We learnt that reptiles have scaly skins and that they are usually found under rocks or basking in the warm sun. 

Julian from the Wild Ones put on a lovely reptile show for us on Wednesday, he came with all the diverse types of reptiles, insects, rodents and many other animals. The Pups thoroughly enjoyed the show, many of them got to touch Pandora the snake and the Tarantula spiders, some Pups were braver than Teacher Cecilia was!  Julian did such an excellent job, and we always look forward to seeing him every year during our reptile week! 

It’s really such a busy time of year at the moment as we have so much going on. We are practicing for the concert next week and the Pups are enjoying dancing and singing our concert songs.

I am totally enjoying my Pups and love them so much!

We hope you have a lovely weekend, there is a cold front coming so keep warm!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND ...

See you all on Monday!

Dates to Diarise:

12 July: Haircut Day

15 July: EcoKids Concert

18 July: Nelson Mandela Day

21 July: Eye Screening

Lots of love

Teacher Cecilia and the Playful Pups Assistants

Our Cute Little Creatures!

Reptiles

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Reptiles

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9

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Ll – Lizard

This is such an exciting week – the children love it so much! They know a whole lot about sssssslithery snakes and tortoises, lizards and crocodiles, chameleons and turtles and we have loved having the opportunity to expand their knowledge this week! We have managed to have very long and involved ring time discussions, picking a different animal each day, and discussing it in depth! Reptiles are Teacher Gemma’s favorite thing so she knows more than the average Joe about them! The children learnt a lot of new vocabulary and had an absolute blast exploring our theme.

For art we made an adorable piece, and as always, we try as much as we can to use totally recycled art materials! Unfortunately, you won’t be able to see these pieces yet as they were just so cute, we decided to keep them for the Art Expo!

Wednesday was by far our most exciting day of the week, as Julian, the snake-man, brought his lovely animas for us to see. There were snakes, lizards, geckos, spiders, gogo’s, frogs and even a chinchilla. Some of the Bugs were “all hands on deck”, and petted every single animal. Others were a little bit weary and chose to rather view from afar.

We have also been hard at work preparing and practicing for our concert next week. Our Bugs have made us so proud! We hope you enjoy the show as much as we have enjoyed getting ready for it!

Thank you for a lovely and exciting week! We are looking forward to another jam packed one next week….

And just to bring back our question of the week: Are you a snake person?? A) Absolutely! B) Hell NOPE! We look forward to your answers…

Next Week’s Theme: South Africa

Next Week’s Show and Tell: Daniella and Mihir

THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK ...

… was definitely when we got a visit from the ‘Snake Man!’

We had some very brave kiddies … and some hesitant little ones too!

Dates to Diarise:

Haircut Day: 13 July

Concert: 16 July

Nelson Mandela Day: 18 July (details to be advised)

Pyjama Dress Up & Break Up Day: 5 August (Holiday Club details to follow)

Lots of love

Teacher Gemma, Teacher Monette and the Busy Bugs Assistants

What a sssssssuper week!

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Ll – Lizard

We have had an action-packed week! We’re sure the Hoppers must be exhausted from all the fun that was had.

We started off the week revising our letter of the week. We sang and danced to our jolly phonics letters and read our letter land book, Lucy Lamp Light. After our story, we went around the class and each Hopper got to tell us a word starting with the letter “L’’. We got some interesting words like Liquorice, Leg, Lego, Lips, and Listen. Well done, Hoppers!

We did a very cool progressive art piece where created amazing, beaded snakes. This was a fun fine motor skills activity where the children got to thread beads and pieces of straws onto twisted pieces of wire. We then added a head and we had beautiful, beaded snakes.

The highlight of the week was the reptile show. Julian from Wild Ones showed us all of his amazing and wonderful animals. The huge tarantula “Spinderella” was a hit as well as the snakes and the cute little Chinchilla.

Concert practice has been in full swing this week; our Hoppers are doing so well. We are so proud of them and cannot wait for the big day! I’m sure most of you already know all our songs, we are so happy to hear our Hoppers are practicing at home. Keep it up!

Have a safe and lovely weekend!