Being Respectful and Responsible: Kidscan Mufti Day

On Friday 26th June we had a Mufti Day for Kidscan.  We brought along a gold coin donation to give to Kidscan.  It was great to be able to give some money to Kidscan as they help our school a lot!  Miss Collins drew the logo on the concrete for us to put our money on.  

Room One is their Mufti.  We liked wearing our own clothes to school.  

The logo with the money on it that Miss Collins drew.  

Learning About the Letter Oo!

Each week we focus on a letter to learn, read and write about.  We do this through phonics, singing, reading stories, handwriting, alphabet activities, letter writing, playdough, Language Experience, make and do and lots of other things.  

This week we are learning about the letter Oo.  We will learn its name, its sound, how to write and recognise it and about some things that begin with this letter.    

The teachers love planning exciting learning experiences to help us learn our letters.  Oo is tricky as it is a vowel and has short and long sounds.  

Room One what can you think of that begins with Oo?

Here is a song to get you started!

Watch this space to see what we learn this week! 

Science Experiments Using Forces

On Tuesday we did our first Science experiment with Room Two.  First Miss Collins told us that we were going to move paint on a page but we weren't sure how.  We thought we could move it around using a our fingers or a spoon.  Then Miss Collins told us we were going to be given a straw.  Next we formed a question, which was "How can we use a straw to move paint around a piece of paper?"  

After that we formed a hypothesis which is when you predict what you think will happen. 

We thought...

- The paint might go all over us.

- The paint might splash off the page

- Paint could end up in our mouth.

After that Miss Collins and Miss Philp explained what we were going to do and recorded it on our experiment chart.  We wrote it down because that is what 'real' scientists do.  

We carried out the experiment and we found out that we could move the paint around the page by blowing down the straw.  The paint was quite thick and hard to move around.  Room One then tried the experiment again with dye which was thinner and it moved around the page more easily.  The dye spread like fireworks.   

The air forced the paint and dye to move around the page.

P is for Pirate Arrrrrrrrrr

Today Room One and Two had a treasure hunt as part of Language Experience.  First we made pirate hats and either made eye patches or borrowed the teachers.  We were a fearsome bunch of pirates with a scary arrrrrrrrr.  

As we went around, we wondered what the treasure was.  Mrs Tizzard thought maybe it was jewels and Miss Collins thought she like the sound of that.  It was  a windy day to be a pirate!

Then we had to follow clues around the school.  Eventually we found our treasure and it was hidden in the school garden!  It was gold chocolate money!  

This week we will write about our treasure hunting.  Watch this space for our stories!

Getting ready to go treasure hunting and practising our best arrrrrrrrrrr.

Our pirate hats we made.

Getting a clue from Mr Woods

Digging for treasure

Our loot!  Arrrrrrrrrr!

This Little Piggy...

This week we learnt the Nursery Rhyme "This Little Piggy".  

This little piggy went to market,
This little piggy stayed at home,
This little piggy had roast beef,
This little piggy had none.
And this little piggy went...
"Wee wee wee" all the way home...

As part of Language Experience we made pink pig biscuits.  First we got a wine biscuit and covered it with pink icing.  Next we put a pink marshmallow on it for a snout, two chocolate drops for eyes and two marshmallow halves for ears.

Our Living Springs Camp

We had an awesome time at camp.  It was a wonderful opportunity to get to know all of the Year One and two children outside the classroom!   We did lots of things including a bush walk, swimming, orienteering, rock climbing, playing on the tramps, mini golf, visiting a farm and riding on a horse!  

A huge thank you to the Red Cross who made our camp possible.