Transport week.

We have been reading books, singing songs, making signs, making box vehicles, colouring in pictures and writing about transport. We even got to bring in our wheels to ride on Friday as long as we remembered our helmets. 

Diwali week

We have been learning about the Festival of Lights, Diwali. We have made salt dough lanterns, tried some Indian dancing, coloured Rangoli patterns, made cards, made flower garlands and read books.

Firewise week

We practiced ringing 111, made fire fighter puppets, carried some classmates out of an imaginary fire, painted some fire pictures and read some fire books.

weight and mass

We have been measuring what is lighter and heavier using balance scales. We were discovering if the shape of the playdough changes, does the weight change too?

Where the wild things are.

We are making masks for the mask parade, drawing pictures, making finger puppets and re-telling the story of where the wild things are.

Weather

We were learning to share new ideas (ways of doing things) We explored weather related things. There was floating and sinking, making an origami boat, playing with bubbles, reading books about weather and making weather music. We also watered the plants that we planted in our garden last week. 

Garden week

We were learning to choose new activities to try. We could plant seeds, dig in the garden, make a daffodil, paint a rock, make a ladybug, read books, watch videos, make a duplo garden, order a bean life cycle, put a bean in a jar, and try some cabbage grown in our school garden.

Flight.

This week in the Tosswill Centre we were learning about flight through exploration. We pretended to be flying rockets and planes by using cardboard boxes. We blew bubbles and watched them float. We dropped balloons to see how fast they fell. We made paper planes and drew pictures of aeroplanes or rockets. We did long jumps in the sand pit to see if we could take off and Miss Howes asked us to make predictions about which would explode first a mentos and coke or mentos and lemonade. 

Reading time activities.

At reading time when we are not reading with the teacher we get to choose different activities. We can build with lego, make collages, drink our milk, write on the whiteboard and do puzzles. Right now we are very lucky to have Miss Howes our student teacher here so we have two teachers everyday.