Sunday, March 11, 2012

Where Are We?

We went outside to find out more about 'location' words.
We sat on the hill.
Nyandit put her hat in her bag.
We sat on the seat. We stood beside the flag pole.
We stood behind the tree.
We stood in front of the wall.
We stood on the play equipment.

This Is Me!

Marvellous Monsters

This week we have been learning about words that begin with 'm' and how to write 'm'. One of our activities was to create our own monsters. We hope that you don't get too scared! Marvellous Monsters on PhotoPeach

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Finding Out About Each Other

We are beginning to find out about each other through play. We are having fun playing kitchens, playing with cars, drawing, building and threading! During our activities we are learning how to cooperate, share, solve problems and find out about each others talents.

I Wonder ...

We are continuing to  wonder about things in our environment. This week we wondered how things would look through different coloured glasses so we made our own glasses - some with red lenses and others with green lessons.
Before we made our glasses we looked through our classroom window and spoke about what we could see in the playground. We saw many things, such as  green grass, orange litter, blue monkeybars, a yellow steering wheel, blue running track and brown crunchy leaves.
We made our glasses and then went outside to explore these objects through the different coloured glasses.
We discovered a few things -
  • the green lenses didn't change the colour of things as much as the red lenses
  • the green colours looked purple through the red lenses
  • the clouds look pink through the red glasses
  • the blue rubbish bins looked purple through the red lenses
We are going to mix paints next week so we are beginning to wonder how these colours will change.



Sunday, March 4, 2012

Clean Up St. Lukes!

On Friday we worked with our Environment Team leaders to clean up the quadrangle of our school for 'Clean Up Schools Day'. We found different types of rubbish - food, wrappers, paper, apple cores and lollipop sticks. Our school looks alot cleaner after our BIG clean up!

Blocks in Socks

Today we discovered the difference between 'most' and 'least' when we had to order the socks with blocks from 'least' to 'most'. We also found out that 'guessing' is the same as 'estimating' when we had to feel and predict how many blocks there were in each of the socks. We had heaps of fun doing this activity.