Celebrations

Last week as part of our topic on celebrations, we looked at weddings. Both the boys and girls were excited to share their own experiences about weddings. We had beautiful items of clothing shared and fabulous wedding photos. Thanks everyone for sending in all the precious items for your children to share.

Holly brought in a veil and her special wedding dress 

Makenzie brought in the special photos to share 








                                                   So did Freya.  Thanks for sharing.                                             

Hockey

Duplo Challenge Wk1 T2

Last week, one of the duplo challenges was to make your name from duplo. Here are some of the results. Well done boys.

Baking a Cake

Today we baked a cake together as part of our celebrations topic. Each of the students participated and helped to make our cake. Baking is an important life skill and helps to develop motor skills, problem solving, following instructions, numeracy elements such as measurement, sequencing and simple fractions.  We were also able to healthy eating habits - treat foods and how often it is appropriate to eat these.

Lego Challenge...

Here are some of the amazing creations students make for our lego challenges this week...

Rotation Activities for Week 1 Term 2

Welcome back to Term Two. These are some of the rotation activities the children will be doing this week:

To build fine and gross motor skills we have hoops and skipping.

In construction this week the children have been given challenges to create, and this helps build team work.

The iPads have handwriting, maths and reading games which reinforce the skills in these areas.

We have a writing table to promote free writing and the sharing of ideas, using whiteboards.

Rachel created her own story: 'Amy is walking to a park. Are you?'

On the craft table the children have to draw, cut, and paste animals by following the instructions in reading books. This helps reading and problem solving skills, and fine motor skills (scissor work).

Happy Holidays Everyone!!

Happy Holidays to all of our Pod 1 families, we hope that you have a safe and happy holiday.  Maybe you will even be lucky enough to have a visit from the Easter bunny!!  We are looking forward to seeing you all back rested and ready for Term 2!!

Here we are today making our Hot Cross Cookies!! YUM!!