Welcome to Thursday everyone, we hope you enjoy your day and learn and share lots of interesting things.

Here is our learning for the day:

Come Read With Me: R1MP

We shared the Story Banjo and Ruby Red.  Mrs Papillo chose the story to read to her class because the red hen on the front cover reminded her of a pet hen she once had as a little girl.  

This morning we shared the book Banjo and Ruby Red and then the children used their library books to share with a partner.  

Come Read With Me: R1JH

R1JH shared the story Big Bad Wolf is Good, whilst they ate their brain food following a tennis lesson with Mrs Cooymans.

Poor Wolf—he’s so lonely! Nobody wants to be his friend.
Not the ducklings, not the goslings, not the fuzzy yellow chicks. “Perhaps it’s because
I’m big and scary,” he thinks. “Perhaps it’s because I’m bad, bad, bad.” Then he has a bright idea: What if he changes his ways and becomes good? What if he does a noble deed?
But, none of the animals will listen when Wolf tries to tell them about his new plan.
They just flee in terror, slamming the door right in his face. Then something really awful happens: one of the ducklings disappears and everybody thinks Wolf has eaten him all up. Can the Big Bad Wolf prove he didn’t have duck for dinner—and bring the lost little baby safely home? A charming and delightfully fractured fairy tale about friendship, and a
wonderful example for children that a person can change!

Lots of the children really enjoyed this story … you can listen to it again here:

After this we shared some non-fiction books from the library – we found out more about Antarctic animals, marsupials, extinct animals, fossils and rocks, cheetahs and other big cats, and much more besides.

Ebony and Williams practised matching letters and sounds:

Numeracy

This morning’s warm up entailed the revision of names of 3D shapes and discussing some similarities and differences.  The class played a quick game before heading off on their shape hunt.

This morning the children went on a 3D shape hunt in the classroom and yard.  As they discovered the 3D shapes the students worked in pairs to record their findings using a tally.

In Play Investigations our resident artists were busy again. Isabella and Mikayla focused on the season of Autumn yesterday, so today they chose Spring! What beautiful flowers, girls!

Vincent drew a sting ray:

And Scarlett made a fan!

Literacy / Art

The students continued to make their puppets today (that were started yesterday) and we just had enough time to retell the story of A Squash and the Squeeze.

Eerat played the role of the Old Lady, Abel was the Old Man, Dylan played the chicken, Ariana played the goat, Williams was the pig and Mikayla was the cow.

 

Here are photos of the children with their finished puppets:

Enjoy your evening everyone and we will see you tomorrow.