Dear Mattingley families and friends
Last week in our library lesson Mrs Buchanan
shared with us a beautiful story called ‘Purple Snow’ written and illustrated
by Erick Löbbecke. It was a lovely story about Cockatoo who travelled all the
way from Australia to Polar Bear’s home to see white snow. He then invites his
friend home to see the purple snow that falls in the Australian summer. It left
us trying to guess what purple snow might be. In the end we find out that
Cockatoo is talking about the beautiful purple flowers that fall from the
Jacaranda tree.
The children loved this story and were
very excited when Miss Bowden told us that we have a beautiful Jacaranda tree at
school. So off we went to find our own purple snow. We had a wonderful time
collecting the flowers and enjoying the lovely fragrance that they produced. The children decided to bring the flowers
that they had collected back to the classroom so they could incorporate them
into their own art work.
Maybe if you are out and about over the weekend you might be able to keep an eye out for your own purple snow. It seems to be all over Adelaide at the minute. Watch out for those busy bees though!
The Mattingley team
