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Spring, Flowers & Planting; Trees, Plants, Wood & Paper

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THEME

Spring, Flowers & Planting; Trees, Plants, Wood & Paper

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COLOUR

Lime & Brown

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SHAPE

Semi-Circle & Sphere

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NUMBER

1 – 11

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LETTER

Vv -Vase; Tt -Tree

Writing and Phonics: The Squad have been going over their alphabet letter names and sounds. We played a game where the letters were sprawled over the classroom mat and the children were asked one by one to find that specific letter. Afterwards they were asked to say a word that starts with that letter.

We also went over handwriting, and the children wrote sentences using sight words and CVC words. Focusing on finger spacing, and letter formation. We are pleased with how much focus and determination the Squad have had to make sure that their letters touch the lines and that they have been taking so much pride in their work. Well done!

Mathematics: The Squad have been counting in 2s, 5s, and 10s. We have been asking the children to write numbers 1-20 and identify numbers 11-20 (double digit). Focusing that the number “1” comes first. Also recognising that they pronounce “teen” and not “ty” as in “thirt(ty)”.

We also went over addition using the counting on method. The children are asked to read a sum such as “7+7” they must then read the first number out and count on using dots to get the answer – this is a tricky concept but once they understand this – it will help them in the future.

Creative Art: Art Expo is just around the corner, and we have been completing our art pieces. This week we created cowboy boots. We can’t wait for you to see them!

FunFit Sports: Coach Trevor played T-Ball with the Squad this week.

Cooking: Teacher Hayley made “tree pizza’s” using dough, tomato paste, cheese and chicken viennas. We hope you all enjoyed it.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend.

Happy Monday!

Dates to Diarise:

20 Sept: Hat Parade Day

23 Sept: School Holiday

24 Sept: Public Holiday (Heritage Day)

3 Oct: Haircut Day

18 Oct: Art Expo

24 Oct: Break Up Day

25-28 Oct: Mid Term Break

29 Oct: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Carla, Teacher Hayley and the Smart Squad Assistants

Our Squad!

Spring, Flowers & Planting; Trees, Plants, Wood & Paper

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THEME

Spring, Flowers & Planting; Trees, Plants, Wood & Paper

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COLOUR

Lime & Brown

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SHAPE

Semi-Circle & Sphere

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NUMBER

1 – 11

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LETTER

Vv -Vase; Tt -Tree

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

We have had a lovely short week in the Curious Crew class. We started off our week with a colour in Spring worksheet. The Crew display such growth with their work after the August holiday. They sit working carefully not rushing through their work.

In the spirit of Spring we needed to take advantage of all the bright colours that come with Spring. We decided that a pretty Spring flower still life painting would be a great activity as our first art piece for the 3rd term. It was beautiful to see how the Crew used lots of different colours and took their time to create these beautiful masterpieces.

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

At FunFit Sports this week the Crew got to get back into the swing of things with their ball, hand eye-coordination, with some cricket practice! The Crew are great sportsmans and love to cheer each other on when they up there ready to bat! A lovely sports session as always, thank you Coach Trevor.

Yoga was all about team work! The Crew started off with some Yoga stretches, focusing on core strength and hamstrings. The Crew then did some partner poses; tree, boat and table top. This made the Crew giggle and smile from ear to ear! Definitely a great Yoga session for the beginning of the 3rd Term. Thank you teacher Yoga!

Show and tell this week was pretty and colourful as the Crew brought bunches of flowers to show off to the class! There are some lovely pictures in the blog this week of the Crews Show and Tell. Enjoy.

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

This week we kicked off our Puzzle Challenge! I can’t wait to see the graph grow and who will be the reigning champion at the end of this challenge. It is also interest to see who has a competitive streak and how this challenge will bring that out. Let’s get building Crew! Don’t forget that you are more than welcome to bring puzzles from home to swop out with the puzzles in reception, they will be returned once puzzle challenge is over. Don’t forget to record the puzzles built on the Google document so we can keep track of the number of pieces being built.

Keeping in the spirit of Spring we decided to make beautiful sun catches. The Crew got to colour in their little suns with some bright pastel crayons and the pick pieces of coloured cellophane to go into the middle which we then laminated. And just WOW they look amazing. This piece of art is definitely one to treasure for years to come.

We did a challenging perceptual worksheet where the Crew had to colour in different halves of leaves. Once they had completed that, they were then tasked to cut them out, put together to 2 matching halves and then stick them onto a piece of paper.

We also decided to do some name writing again this week. Getting the Crew to practice on there writing/fine motor skills is very important in getting them ready for their reception year. Please practice at home as much as you can as well. And on that note, when practicing name writing at home please use the correct letter formation. Only the first Letter is a capital and then the rest are in low case letters.

We also did a tracing worksheet to go with those very important fine motor skills.

For cooking this week we did worms in the soil. During our morning ringtime sessions we spoke about how there are different layers of soil and which bugs live in the different layers of soil. Combining cooking and ringtime we made this concept more concert when putting together of cooking. Using crushed biscuits as the base with some sour worms and then some more cruched biscuits to cover the worms and then the sprinkled on some bronze sprinkles to add some ‘leaves’ to their ‘topsoil’. They enjoyed their cooking in class the same day.

At FunFit Sports this week the Crew enjoyed a game of T-ball, they used a pool noodle which is nice and light for them to swing but boy could they hit those balls far! It was super impressive.

The Crew were so happy to see Teacher Mo again this week after the holidays and what was the first thing they requested…rock music LOL. Teacher Mo had to give them what they requested before he could carry on with the lesson. So far the Crew have been introduced to, the blues, rock, jazz and classical music genres. Keep up your magical teachings Teacher Mo.

Next week’s theme: Countries and Cultures

Happy Monday!

Dates to Diarise:

20 Sept: Hat Parade Day

23 Sept: School Holiday

24 Sept: Public Holiday (Heritage Day)

3 Oct: Haircut Day

18 Oct: Art Expo

24 Oct: Break Up Day

25-28 Oct: Mid Term Break

29 Oct: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Tegan and the Curious Crew Assistants

Our Crew!

Spring, Flowers, & Planting; Trees, Plants, Wood & Paper

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THEME

Spring, Flowers & Planting; Trees, Plants, Wood & Paper

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COLOUR

Lime & Brown

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SHAPE

Semi-Circle & Sphere

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NUMBER

1 – 11

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LETTER

Vv -Vase; Tt -Tree

We would like to welcome everyone back from a much deserved break. We look forward to a busy but fun Term 3!

The last two weeks we learnt all about Spring, Plants and Trees.

The Hoppers liked to learn how spring brings blossoms to the trees. They enjoyed learning that a bud turns into a blossom, which in turn becomes fruit. The importance of trees, and all the amazing things trees can provide us. We observed what in our environment is made from wood.

For art we decorated our handmade paper, it was so fun to see how we can reuse paper into such a beautiful new piece. We did some paper plate sponging and went on a nature walk to collect sticks. We made a blossom tree by printing with bubble wrap and used the sticks we collected to finish off this amazing piece of art.

As a life skill, we learnt to grate. It was so refreshing to smell and taste the freshly grated lemons! All the Hoppers did so well with this life skill.

The Hoppers enjoyed a song for Yoga that got them standing up straight, balancing on one leg and working on their warrior 1 and 2 pose. We practiced our bear, snake and candle breathing techniques. Finishing off with a simple sequence of: tree, cat, cow and dog poses. What a fun class!

We hope you all have a fantastic weekend with the weather becoming hotter after a cold week. Enjoy the wonderful colours and smells the new season brings us.

Happy Monday!

Dates to Diarise:

20 Sept: Hat Parade Day

23 Sept: School Holiday

24 Sept: Public Holiday (Heritage Day)

3 Oct: Haircut Day

18 Oct: Art Expo

24 Oct: Break Up Day

25-28 Oct: Mid Term Break

29 Oct: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher C, Teacher Yolandie and the Happy Hoppers Assistants

Our Hoppers!

Spring, Flowers & Planting; Trees, Plants, Wood & Paper

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THEME

Spring, Flowers & Planting; Trees, Plants, Wood & Paper

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COLOUR

Green & Brown

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SHAPE

Circle & Triangle

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NUMBER

1 & 2

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LETTER

Vv -Vase; Tt -Tree

Spring and Flowers

Welcome Spring… Finally!  

We had so much fun learning about Spring last week. We spoke about what happens during spring time; flowers blooming, the grass starts to go green again, leaves start showing on the trees and most importantly, the weather starts to get warmer! Yay!  

We also spoke about having respect for plants, flowers and trees. We learned that we are not allowed to break or damaged a tree, and that we can only pick flowers if we are going to use them for something.   

“Spring, a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can be.” Spring is all about new beginnings and changes. Spring brings new growth, weed out the bad and make room for something beautiful. Let’s all make it our Spring time goals, after such a challenging year, to make some changes, get rid of the bad in our lives to make space for beautiful things! 

Trees, Plants, Wood and Paper

WOW!!! What a week we have had! We are so proud of all of our Bugs for doing so well with photographs! Uncle Tiago and Teacher Gemma (who was assisting with the photos) were blown away at how brave you all were, and how well you smiled!  

We had a great week learning about trees plants, wood and paper and all the amazing things that can be done with them. We learned that trees are wood, and that wood is then used to make the paper that we create all of our beautiful art work on. We reinforced last week’s lesson about respecting nature and the beautiful world we have been given!  

For art this week and last, we made the most beautiful blossom trees using our fingerprints. We made awesome recycled flowers using the bottom of a bottle dipped in paint for the petals, straws for the stems and beads for the center.

We also made a collaborative piece, “Busy Bugs friendship tree”. Each Bugs got their hand painted, told us who their best friends are and made their mark for their friends.

We hope you are all super excited and getting in touch with your creative sides for our amazing hat parade! We can’t wait to see the incredible creations! 

Just a reminder to please send in cereal boxes!    

This week’s theme: Countries and Cultures 

Happy Monday!

Dates to Diarise:

20 Sept: Hat Parade Day

23 Sept: School Holiday

24 Sept: Public Holiday (Heritage Day)

3 Oct: Haircut Day

18 Oct: Art Expo

24 Oct: Break Up Day

25-28 Oct: Mid Term Break

29 Oct: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Gemma, Teacher Ash and the Busy Bugs Assistants

Our Bugs!

Spring, Flowers & Planting; Trees, Plants, Wood & Paper

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THEME

Spring, Flowers & Planting; Trees, Plants, Wood & Paper

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COLOUR

Green & Brown

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SHAPE

Circle & Triangle

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NUMBER

1 & 2

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LETTER

Vv -Vase; Tt -Tree

Spring Blog: Our First Week of School

Our first week back was short but oh-so-exciting! We welcomed some sweet new friends into the Playful Pups classroom, and they’re already fitting in so wonderfully. It’s the best feeling to see all of our little Pups happy, thriving, and growing every day!

For our first art project, we made the most adorable see-through butterflies! We used laminating paper and colorful tissue paper, tearing them into tiny pieces and sticking them together. They’re so cute that Teacher Monette just had to keep them hanging on our classroom windows for everyone to admire—because they’re way too precious to send home just yet! He-he! 🦋

We also took a fun little trip down memory lane, refreshing our skills by practicing our colors and shapes. The Pups did an amazing job remembering them all!

We couldn’t have asked for a more perfect start to the season! 💕🌸

Trees and Plants Blog: week 2

This week’s theme was all about trees and plants, and the Pups were so amazed to learn about all the different kinds of trees and how they grow! 🌳 When we talked about what plants need to grow, my clever Pups already guessed I was going to say water! He-he! They were all so excited to share what they knew.

For art, we made our own little trees by using our handprints as the tree trunks and rolling tiny tissue paper balls to create beautiful blossoms. The Pups weren’t too thrilled about rolling all those little tissue balls—ha-ha!—but the trees turned out *so* cute and colorful. 🌸

We also had lots of fun with our FunFit sports, doing gross motor activities, and oh my, these Pups are strong! 💪 They have such steady hands and impressive coordination.

We’re also hard at work on our Art Expo projects, and I’m *so* excited for you all to see the amazing creations we’ve been working on throughout the year! 🎨 It’s going to be pawsome!

Happy Monday!

Dates to Diarise:

20 Sept: Hat Parade Day

23 Sept: School Holiday

24 Sept: Public Holiday (Heritage Day)

3 Oct: Haircut Day

18 Oct: Art Expo

24 Oct: Break Up Day

25-28 Oct: Mid Term Break

29 Oct: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Monette and the Playful Pups Assistants

Our Pups!

Spring, Flowers, Planting and Trees, Plants, Wood, Paper

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THEME

Spring, Flowers, Planting & Trees, Plants, Wood, Paper

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COLOUR

Lime & Brown

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SHAPE

Circle & Triangle/Cone

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NUMBER

1 – 11 & Recap

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LETTER

Vv – Vase & Tt -Trees

Moral conscious theme: Respecting Nature & Our Bodies

We discussed how important our bodies are and how we should always look after them. We need to eat healthy and keep exercising. Just like our bodies, nature is equally important and how without it the world would be a very different place.

Writing and Phonics: We are very excited to have our Smart Squad back, we missed them over the August holidays and hope that everyone had a lovely break. This short week was used to settle into our new and busy term. We went over our sight words (from the beginning of the year). We also discussed our letter of the week and how we form this letter.

Mathematics: For maths this week we went over counting to 30 and back from 30. We counted in 2s, 5s and 10s. The Squad are getting better at this. We also practiced drawing a semi-circle.

Creative Art: The Squad this week completed a themed art piece which also fits into our theme for the Art Expo. They made their very own headbands and we have decided to display these at our Expo. This art piece allowed them to get their creative juices flowing – they had so much fun with this.

Music and Cooking: For cooking this week we decided to discuss different recipes and how to read a recipe. We went over how hot an oven needs to be and how we see the different quantities of the food items.

FunFit Sports: We did not have FunFit Sports but this will pick up again next week.

Trees, Plants, Wood & Paper: 11-15 September 2023

Week 2

Moral conscious theme: Honesty

We discussed how important it is to be honest. We explained to the Squad that lies catch up with us and if we lie once, we will have to lie again and again until it makes a big tumble of lies and then we can no longer keep up with our lies.

Writing and Phonics: This week we introduced two brand new sight words, “went” and “like”. We also went over all of our sight words and tested the children – we are pleased with their progress, but it is important to continuously go over these. We also introduced a brand-new word family ‘en’. The Squad used sound buttons to sound out their new words and then we completed our sentences using the cat method. This is something that can be practiced at home, and we do encourage this.

Mathematics: For maths this week we discussed that our numbers also have names, and they are spelled in different ways. We went over numbers 1-10 and the Squad had to match the number to their name, they also wrote the number and its name using lined paper. They did very well with this.

Creative Art: The Squad this week completed another art piece for Art Expo. We are getting so excited about this event and cannot wait for you to see how amazing their art is.

Music and Cooking: For cooking this week we went over how we can use different parts of nature to make things. We also use plants / herbs to garnish our dishes and to help us flavour our food. For music we have been practicing our graduation songs.

FunFit Sports: FunFit sports this week was so much fun and the Squad really missed Coach Trevor. They dribbled a soccer ball around cones and also practiced on their shooting skills. Well done!

HELLO SPRING! HELLO TERM 3!

Dates to Diarise:

22 Sept: Hat Parade Day & Book Drive

24 Sept: Public Holiday (Heritage Day)

25 Sept: Public Holiday Recognised

4 Oct: Haircut Day

20 Oct: Art Expo

25 Oct: Mommy & Me Yoga (PP, HH, CC)

26 Oct: Mommy & Me Yoga (BB, SS)

26 Oct: Break Up Day

27, 28, 29, 30 Oct: Mid Term Break

31 Oct: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Carla, Teacher Hayley and the Smart Squad Assistants

Our Little Spring Chickens!

Spring, Flowers, Planting and Trees, Plants, Wood, Paper

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THEME

Spring, Flowers, Planting & Trees, Plants, Wood, Paper

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COLOUR

Lime & Brown

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SHAPE

Circle & Triangle/Cone

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NUMBER

1 – 11 & Recap

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LETTER

Vv – Vase & Tt -Trees

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. 

HELLO SPRING! HELLO TERM 3!

Dates to Diarise:

22 Sept: Hat Parade Day & Book Drive

24 Sept: Public Holiday (Heritage Day)

25 Sept: Public Holiday Recognised

4 Oct: Haircut Day

20 Oct: Art Expo

25 Oct: Mommy & Me Yoga (PP, HH, CC)

26 Oct: Mommy & Me Yoga (BB, SS)

26 Oct: Break Up Day

27, 28, 29, 30 Oct: Mid Term Break

31 Oct: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Clarissa, Teacher Ash and the Curious Crew Assistants

Our Little Spring Chickens!

Spring, Flowers, Planting and Trees, Plants, Wood, Paper

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THEME

Spring, Flowers, Planting & Trees, Plants, Wood, Paper

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COLOUR

Lime & Brown

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SHAPE

Circle & Triangle/Cone

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NUMBER

1 – 11 & Recap

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LETTER

Vv – Vase & Tt -Trees

Welcome back, we hope you all had a lovely holiday. All our Hoppers look so grown up, and we have all had a fantastic first week back. This year is just flying by.

We eased into the week with theme discussions, holiday news and classroom dancing as we embraced the chilly mornings at the start of the week.

On Wednesday, we had a busy day with building puzzles and working on our art activity in the morning. For our theme this week, we made flowers in a vase. The flowers were made from cardboard circles, which we painted and wrapped with wool; stems were made of sticks and green ribbon, and the vase is old spray paint lids filled with sand. These came out beautiful, and we are keeping them for the art expo.

For our letter of the week, we read Vicky Violet and the vet and all the different words that begin with the letter “V.” we had so much fun and had some exciting words like violin, van, vet, and, of course, that we need to take all our vitamins.

We learnt about Trees, Plants, Wood and Paper for our second week back. We spoke about what a tree looks like, and it has roots, a trunk and branches with leaves. We also learnt that trees are very good for our world and we must look after them. They give us oxygen and help us to breathe.

On Wednesday, we went on a nature walk and collected leaves, sticks and lots of bark for a very cool class piece and made a nature tree. We cut a tree out of a big piece of paper and stuck sticky tape behind it. We then stuck all the bits of nature we found on our nature walk. This was so much fun, and we loved how our nature tree came out.

We were very enthusiastic and tried to make our own recycled paper. It turns out that making your paper is not so easy J. We just ended up with a paper mush…hahah! The hopers loved ripping the shredded paper and adding the water. This became more of a sensory activity as the paper mush was quite cool to feel and put our hands through.

We had a very busy week with photos and are so proud of all our Hoppers. They all smiled so nicely and cannot wait to see the photos.

It has been a great two weeks into term 3, and we are all ready for a jam-packed and exciting term.

Our theme next week is Countries and Cultures.

Have a safe and lovely weekend.

HELLO SPRING! HELLO TERM 3!

Dates to Diarise:

22 Sept: Hat Parade Day & Book Drive

24 Sept: Public Holiday (Heritage Day)

25 Sept: Public Holiday Recognised

4 Oct: Haircut Day

20 Oct: Art Expo

25 Oct: Mommy & Me Yoga (PP, HH, CC)

26 Oct: Mommy & Me Yoga (BB, SS)

26 Oct: Break Up Day

27, 28, 29, 30 Oct: Mid Term Break

31 Oct: Back to School

Lots of love

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

Our Little Spring Chickens!

Spring, Flowers, Planting and Trees, Plants, Wood, Paper

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THEME

Spring, Flowers, Planting & Trees, Plants, Wood, Paper

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COLOUR

Green & Brown

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SHAPE

Circle & Triangle

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NUMBER

1 & 2

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LETTER

Vv – Vase & Tt -Trees

We had a very busy and exciting week! Spring is definitely in the air and we are having to strip down children of all the layers by playtime! What a wonderful time of the year. This week was all about spring and flowers and we chatted about the warmer weather and what happens when it gets warm! The sun rises earlier so we don’t have to wake up in the dark! We don’t have to wear so much clothing to school or else we will get too hot! The sun shines down on us and we have to start wearing sun hats. It is time for lots of water and sunscreen. When the warmer weather comes, the rain also comes! Rain is very good for the Earth and we need it so that the plants grow. We start seeing little blossoms and tiny green leaves on the plants and trees and that means it is definitely spring! The most wonderful season! The bees start buzzing around and pollinating the flowers so in summer time we can have yummy fruit! The Pups went on a wonderful nature walk om our very first day back at school. We found all sorts of sticks, dry grass bark and twigs. We were looking up the big tree at the far end of the plot and saw some beautiful birds that the Pups found extremely fascinating. What a blessing it is to be able to walk around and enjoy nature when nature is your theme! 

In order to understand the moral theme of the week, we sang our school song a lot as it talks all about how much we love nature and the plants and trees, and how we never step on bugs because we are the children of EcoKids! In this way we learned about respecting nature. Our children know that when we find a bug or a spider, a frog or even a snake, we let it go so it can go home to it’s mommy and daddy. Also, it is important to teach our Pups that plants in the garden are growing! And alive! So if you want to pick a flower or two, that’s okay, but we don’t need to pull off leaves or pick all the flowers because plants belong in nature!    What made this week even more special was that we had three new little Pups start their school journey with us and we have been so happy to welcome them! Little Conner, Colton and Hunter M. Welcome to the EcoKids family! 

For our art activity this short week we used tennis balls to do some stamping onto a flower which the Pups absolutely enjoyed. There were a couple of Pups that decided it would be fun to through the tennis balls full of paint at their friends instead of stamping paint onto their flower. This was so much fun and there was paint everywhere. So much fun! As always, please keep nails short and label all items coming to school. A lot of children have the same water bottles so please label your child’s bottle in a distinctive way and show them how you have done it so they know which one is theirs.

Next week’s theme: Trees, Plants, Wood and Paper 

Photograph week! It was quiet a challenging time to get our small little Pups to smile and see all the lights and the big camera. Overall they were so brave and I cant wait to see their beautiful photographs.

For our art we made a tall tree using a paper towel roll for the trunk and a piece of cardboard for branches. The Pups loved painting this with their friends.

On Friday we did a short obstacle course in the Pups garden which included climbing over and under obstacles and throwing tennis balls into a bin. They all just loved this so much.

Well done to all our little Pups for being so amazing and helping with our new smaller little Pups.

Have a beautiful weekend!

HELLO SPRING! HELLO TERM 3!

Dates to Diarise:

22 Sept: Hat Parade Day & Book Drive

24 Sept: Public Holiday (Heritage Day)

25 Sept: Public Holiday Recognised

4 Oct: Haircut Day

20 Oct: Art Expo

25 Oct: Mommy & Me Yoga (PP, HH, CC)

26 Oct: Mommy & Me Yoga (BB, SS)

26 Oct: Break Up Day

27, 28, 29, 30 Oct: Mid Term Break

31 Oct: Back to School

Lots of love

Teacher Cecilia and the Playful Pups Assistants

Our Little Spring Chickens!

Spring, Flowers, Planting & Trees, Plants, Wood, Paper

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THEME

Spring, Flowers, Planting & Trees, Plants, Wood, Paper

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COLOUR

Lime

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SHAPE

Semi – Circle & Triangle/Cone

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NUMBER

1 – 10 & 11

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LETTER

Vv – Vase & Tt – Trees

Term 3 – Week 1

Welcome back everyone to a very busy but fun-filled third term. We couldn’t wait to get the ball rolling and start working with our kiddies that we missed so much. It was a short week but we managed to get tons done.

Writing and Phonics: On Tuesday we recapped our sight words and were pleased to see that the children practiced over their holiday. Well done everyone! We also added two new sight words, ‘to’ and ‘do’ – reiterating the ‘o’ sound with these two. Lastly, we wrote sentences using our CVC words.

Maths: On Thursday we recapped counting to 30 and back. Could we please ask that this is revised at home especially counting backwards – it could be a fun driving to school activity. We also discussed 3D shapes and the concepts ‘sides, corners, and faces’ of a 3D shape. They then had to complete a worksheet where they the kiddies had to correctly cut and paste the 3D shapes in the correct spot. They did well with this and needed little assistance.

Life Skills: Respecting nature and our bodies is a fundamental moral to have in life. If we treat others how we would like to be treated, then we will be happy. This is what we chatted about during the week – we also sang our school song and went over recycling rules.

Art: On Wednesday we had a lovely visit from Teacher Katy, and she discussed some lovely musical concepts with the children, they really enjoy it when she visits. We have also been working hard on our art pieces for the Art Expo and we completed two projects for our Book of Me. We cannot wait for it all to come together.

Term 3 – Week 2

Writing and Phonics: We matched our new ‘e’ family words to the correct picture. We also introduced two new sight words, ‘so’ and ‘go’. The Squad wrote sentences using the ‘ed’ words and we cannot believe how everyone’s handwriting is improving.

Maths: The kiddies completed a worksheet with addition to 10. In order to fill in the missing number they had to count the number of bees, for example, 6+ (number of bees) = 10. They also completed a worksheet which focused on counting in 2s, 5s, and 10s. We noticed that they still need some practice with this concept so we will be working through this.

Life Skills: For this very important moral conscious theme, we explained to the Squad that honesty is the best policy, and we need to speak the truth. If we lie, they build up and then we cannot keep up with all the lies, so we get caught out.

Art: We had so much fun with our art this week, we made dragon eggs using salt dough and newspaper. We also made an abstract art piece that assisted with fine motor skills, the children used ear buds to dot their flowers onto a tree. They came out so beautiful that we decided to keep them for Art Expo.

It has been a great week.

See you all next week.

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Dates to Diarise:

Hat Parade Day: 23 Sept

Public Holiday: 24 Sept

Haircut Day: 5 Oct

Break Up Day & art Expo: 20 Oct

Mid-Term Break: 21 – 24 Oct

Back to School: 25 Oct

Mommy & Me Yoga (PP, HH, CC): 27 Oct

Mommy & Me Yoga (BB, SS): 28 Oct