We are a happy class of Prep students in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne Australia.
We love to learn from each other and share our learning with others.
Ahoy, me hearties! On Friday we made our own Treasure Maps. First, we collected items from outside such as leaves and rocks, and also used items from our classroom such as playdoh and blocks. We then hid 'treasure' in our design. Finally, we drew and labelled a map for our friends, marking an 'x' for the hidden treasure.
During Friday's Circle Time we had a lot of fun making a car wash with our friends. We wanted everyone to feel welcome in our team. We stood in two rows to make a tunnel. As our friends (the cars) came through the car wash we gently 'washed' them. We laughed a lot and all pretended to be different types of cars.
On Friday we gave our handwriting muscles a workout! We talked about the hand muscles we use to hold a pencil correctly and form letters. To strengthen these muscles we squished playdoh between our thumb and index finger, we squeezed tongs to pick up marbles and we peeled stickers to make stars for our queens. We also sprayed shaving cream to make letters - gooey fun!
Yesterday we were lucky to have Jacqui come to our classroom and speak to us about healthy eating.
She told us that we should eat all different colours of fruits and vegetables to be as healthy as we can be.
She explained this by talking about a 'rainbow of food'. We drew our own 'rainbows of food'.
Today we had to design and create containers using cover paper, scissors and sticky tape. Our containers had to hold 30 marbles.
We discovered that some of our containers were too small and some were too big.
We are learning to take risks. Today we were given a fruit platter with kiwi fruit, lemon, lime, apricot, fig, date and pomegranates. We tasted each of these and drew a happy or sad face depending on how we felt about the taste of each fruit.
Our favourite fruit was apricot!
Yum! on PhotoPeach
Over the last couple of Maths lessons we have been finding out about capacity. Today we used the units of playplas, unifix blocks, counters and marbles to check the capacity of different objects.
We discovered that it is very important to choose the correct unit when measuring capacity. Otherwise it can take a long time to measure or it can overflow!
Today we walked down to our local Woolworths supermarket to buy ingredients to make sandwiches for lunch. We took the shopping list that we had written on Monday so that we would remember everything.
Ryan took us for a tour of the store and then we did our shopping.
We thanked Ryan for showing us all of the secret places in Woolworths! He gave each of us an apple and then we walked back to school.
Our mums and teachers washed and cut up the ingredients for us so that we could create our own healthy sandwich.
We had lettuce, cheese, carrots, celery, ham, mushrooms, tomatoes and capsicum in our sandwiches.
Some of us even took risks and tasted someting new!
What is your favourite healthy sandwich?
Our Shopping Adventure on PhotoPeach
We had heaps of fun today finding out which cups held the most water.
Our groups placed them in order from the cup that would hold the least amount of water through to the cup that would hold the most water.
We then poured water in to the cups to check if our ordering of the cups was correct. We started by filling up the cup that we thought would hold the least amount of water.
Which cup do you think would hold the most water?
Comparing Capacities on PhotoPeach
On the last day of Term 2 we were lucky enough to be able to present Adriana from Wildlife victoria with two possum nesting boxes and $298 to help her continue her work with our injured wildlife.
We had great fun raising the money for Wildlife Victoria and making the possum boxes with Kylie from Bunnings.
Thank you to everyone who supported our action.
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