Have a look at some of the activities that we do.

tracing over the alphabet

 Using a colouring marker, we write over the letters on the sheet. At the bottom of the sheet, we try writing words  from our spelling or that we can see in our room.

 writing words from around the room

 We have two different ways to write words from around our room.

We can use a colouring marker and a laminated sheet with writing lines or we can use one of our special pencils and a dotted thirds paper sheet. 

Laminated writing sheets

  Writing is formed from top to bottom. To help us learn how to form our letters, we use laminated sheets that have pictures with writing lines on them. The lines have to be drawn from top to bottom.

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We have learnt the names of the common 3D shapes such as sphere, cube, cylinder and triangular prism.

As an extension to our  learning, we have been using an iPad app called Geoboards.

This app allows us to construct shapes using virtual rubber bands around pegs.

Mrs W  taught Ned and Michael how to play the game boxes or paddocks. Many of our parents and grandparents would remember playing boxes with pen and paper. They had to use a new skill in Geoboards so they could colour the squares that they made.

We have had a lot of fun creating shapes with the Geoboard app.

melting.

Many of us knew that ice, icypoles and icecream will all melt if left out in the sun or heat.

Nick suggested that plastic will also melt. 

So we decided to see if we could melt some plastic cups and what would happen to them if they did melt.

Each of us decorated three plastic cups with permanent markers. We wanted our cups to be individualised and not just plain, clear cups. We also named our cups. Mrs W. then took our cups home to melt them.

The cups were set upside down onto oven trays that had been lined with baking paper.

Mrs W. turned the oven to its maximum temperature.

The cups were put into the hot oven to hopefully melt.

Within 15 seconds, the cups had started melting.

It took less than 30 seconds for the cups to melt.

After the cups had cooled, Mrs W. took them off the baking paper.

Wow, the cups really did melt.

This year we have students in years Prep, one and two in our room. There will be 15 of us together with Mrs W. (our teacher). We also have the lovely Mrs H and Mrs B helping in our classroom.

We are really forward to tomorrow when our 5 new preps will join us here at school.

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Developmental Curriculum  is a time when students are able to interact and socialise with other students while experiencing the world around them.

Experiences this week included:

• creating handmade cards,
• acting out what happens when you visit the doctors
• solving jigsaw puzzles
• co-operating and sharing together
• seeing how far different cars travelled from the slide
• learning about personal space

Have a look at our session.

You have to watch where you walk so that you don’t get stung by the long tentacles hanging down!!

We haven’t been to visit our friends at Dhurringile for some time now. They are a small school like us.

These are some of our thoughts about today:

Sophie: I like the playground because it has fun stuff.

Kasey: I like Harold especially when he slipped on his banana peel.

Georgia: I liked it when we saw Harold and he slipped on the banana peel. I liked learning about our body.

Ned: the best thing has been seeing Harold.

Erick: the best thing was playing at recess.

Nick: Harold was the best.

Nadia: we got to share some of our ipad games with the Dhurringile kids.

Victoria: Dhurringile school has pictures on the walls.

Abbi: I liked that Dhurringile school is different to our school.

Ethan: I got to pat Harold when I collected the stickers from him.

Each of the students has designed, drawn and sewn their patch. Mrs H took the patches home to sew together for us.

Our quilt is now hanging in the entrance to the main school buildings. We think it looks fabulous!