Dear Mattingley Families and Friends,
We have had some very keen engineers in our
classroom this week, with some fantastic structures going up everyday in our
construction site. Our engineers have had to participate with others to solve
problems and contribute to group outcomes. It hasn’t always been easy. We have
had to call in a site manager from time to time to oversee the construction,
however it has been truly wonderful to see the children working together on a
project and seeing it through to completion. Through this play the children
have been sharing their knowledge and understandings with each other deepening
their experiences and growing together as learning group.
Roman: We need to make an airport. There are lots of paper
planes. I have been in an airport. You catch the plane from there.
Leo: If people want to go inside they need to climb
the stairs
Walter: Rockets take off from this airport too.
Roman: The cars go here so you can go on your
holidays.
Sam: These are the instructions so the children know
what they are doing. It helps them know how to make it.
Marcel: The airport needs a police car. Then the badies
will go.
Roy: Yeah if there are bad people the police will
come.
We have been doing lots of exploration into
letters and their sounds during the term. This week we added nametags to our
writing table to encourage the children to begin making meaningful marks as
they are drawing. We have also added new morning meeting tags so we can focus
on starting sounds as we work out our job helpers. We are aiming to support the children in
being able to recognise the starting sound of their names and to begin recognising their names in print. This has resulted in a lot of letter searches
throughout the classroom which has been lots of fun. A good place to find
letters this week was on our light table.
Jasmine: Here is a ‘J’ for me, a ‘J’ for Josh and a
‘J’for James.
Edie: This is an ‘E’ for Edie. Now I got two.
We wonder how many letters you might find out
and about on your travels this weekend?
Kimberley Mason and Coney
Rocca
