What a busy Thursday we have had :0)

Tomorrow there is no sausage sizzle as they have all been sold. Thank you for you support.

Literacy Rotations

• Mini Books – Sounds I  know – Ss – Mm – Aa – Pp – Tt- letter and sound recognition and word building
• Lego words/letter – letter recognition and fine motor skills
• Handwriting – formation, fine motor and word building
• Puppets – Oral language skills

 

Sports

Today during ‘Sports/PE the children enjoyed moving through a variety of stations.

Ishpreet – In PE today we got to do some ball stuff. We did volley ball with the short nets.

Laura – I like the ball catching, because you get to throw and it comes back to you.

Bibi – I liked throwing the ball into the big net.

Keth – I like playing catching the ball.

Elnathan – I like doing the shooting in the hoops and the soccer goals.

Alexa – I like the soccer game because it very fun and I also like the basketball and my Mum and Dad like basketball.

Adum – I like doing the scooper thing when you catch the ball.

Mya – I liked throwing the beanbag.

Jordan – You learn sports.

Kalil – I was good at the soccer game. I like sports because there is basketball hoop.

Jed – I like the shooting in the hoop.

Tower Challenge

After lunch Challenge – Make the tallest tower you can which is capable of standing freely and not attached to anything?

This challenge brings together – science, technology, creativity, problem solving and persistence

What materials can we use?

Annabelle – Boxes

Ishpreet – cardboard, blocks

Mya – Paper

Laura – Blocks

Kalil – Paper

Jed- Blocks

Keth – Blocks

Alexa – lego

Emily – Pillows

Eann – Lego

Jordan – Logs

Bior – Bricks

These are some of the questions we reflected upon at the end of the building time –

Why were some towers taller? Why did some fall down? What problems did you have to solve?

Ishpreet – The tower fell down becasue it didn’t have a base.

Mya – My feels down more because it didn’t have base.

Keth – Ours didn’t fall down because it had a base.

Jed – We used team work.

Eann – My tower can scoop things up at the back.

Amazing learning was observed during this time 🙂