Happy Wednesday everyone!
We began the day with a hymn practice, learning and practising songs for tomorrow’s Mass, which celebrates the Feast of the Assumption.
LIBRARY
Today’s shared text was I NEED a parrot by Chris McKimmie. This is one of the six shortlisted picture books for the 2020 Picture Book of the Year, which is hosted annually by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. We asked our students to give it a rating of 1-5 stars.
The 2020 shortlist is as follows:
NUMERACY
The children worked on number recognition, addition and number sentence formation today.
DINING HALL LUNCH
At noon we were all set to much burgers with our buddies. We had a WONDERFUL time dining with our buddy classes:
HASS/ART
This term, we are visiting different countries around the world by sharing traditional tales from different cultures. The students are then invited to respond to the story by choosing at least two activities on offer. Across the term, the activities will cover curriculum areas such as: history, geography, science, the fine arts and design & technology.
Today we began at home in Australia with an indigenous dreaming story called The Echidna and the Shade Tree:
After sharing the story, the children busied themselves, engaging in a selection of the following activities:
- Making an echidna using clay and matchsticks
- Designing a boomerang
- Creating the story setting using Lego (red/yellow desert and the huge shade tree)
- Drawing/sketching Australian animals
- Exploring maps of Australia
