The Curious Crew had one busy week this week , we enjoyed our daily ring time , where we took the opportunity to watch a few educational videos on frogs and their habitats.  

We took a look at our colour of the week which was an interesting one , we mixed colours together to see if we could make the colour turquoise  

We counted to our number of the week too , and we played games to both recognise and identify our number.  

 ART 

For art this week , we focused a bit on our art expo art that we can not wait for !! And we can’t wait to show it off to all you parents.  

We made a very cute frog this week too , using circle shaped cardboard ,each child had to assemble their own frogs , and this came out very cute and we can not wait for everyone to see.  

We did a few worksheets this week too ,  

We did a number 14 worksheet where each child had to trace over the number 14s using kokis ,  

And we did a letter m worksheet , where each child had to trace the letter m , and then fill the back of the worksheet with letter ms.  

FUNFIT SPORTS*  

This week coach Trevor divided the class into two teams , and they had to verse each other in a very competitive game of bowling ,  

The class just loves being put to the test , and being able to show us what they’re made of. 

YOGA  

Curious Crew Yoga, 

This weeks lesson focused on our memory and sequencing. 

Working through our yoga poses and trying to remember what number represented which pose. There are 11 poses in total, which the crew was able to remember up to number 8 in the correct order and were able to demonstrate perfect poses. We did this activity in May, and the crew were only able to memorize 6! Well done Curious Crew.

Next weeks theme : Fantasy  

Our Crew!

Frogs and Ponds are such a favourite with all the kiddies! The Crew really enjoyed this week’s theme. It was so cool to get some real tadpoles from the pond at school. Every day the children had a look at how the tadpoles were doing and it was a big discussion each day!

We haven’t done a painting activity in ages so it was the perfect opportunity to bring out the paint and paint brushes for the Crew. We set up books with different pictures of ponds so the children had an idea of what they could paint. And just wow! We are proud of the confidence the Crew painted with. Such colourful pictures filled with frogs, insects and bugs. As Christy-Lee was watching the Crew paint she said they were so good that Ben and Alexa should go to painting school! It was hard to not keep this piece of art of our upcoming Art Expo but we thought you should enjoy them as soon as possible!

The Curious Crew worked on tracing over their name and then writing it by themselves. They are making steady progress but, practice makes perfect! If you as parents could please do name writing at home with the Crew and sound out the letters of their name, maybe make it fun and write your name and other family member names too. Sounding out the letters as you go.

The Crew have been working on their puzzle building skills in class. Those puzzles have been recorded, so if you see some extra numbers on their graph this week, its puzzles they have completed in class! Great job Curious Crew! You make your teachers really proud!

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 the Crew made the cutest little sweet bread frog buns with chocolate chip eyes, they had to roll the bread dough themselves and then rolled 2 smaller balls for the eyes. Ending off the activity with chocolate chip eyes. We hope that you got to have a bite too!

For sure the highlight of the week….we went next door to Anita’s uncle’s house where they have a HUG pond, with big Koi fish. The Crew LOVED this, they each got a turn to walk a little on the bridge that goes across the pond. They had a chance to put their feet in the pond and we even enjoyed lunch there. Last but certainly not least we went on the big merry go round, WHAT A BLAST!!!

Next week’s theme: Shadows, day and night, weather and summer

Growing in leaps and bounds!