Hi
Cooper families,
What
a great way to start the week with a beautiful stroll to the prep school to
pick some blossoms. The children noticed the flowers blooming on one of our
weekly trips to PE. When we brought them back into the classroom the children
eagerly put their smocks on and started to paint images using their
observational skills.
Nash
– They are pink and yellow and pink.
Douglas
– They from the trees.
On
Tuesday the Cooper room made a class scarecrow to put in our garden to scare
the birds away.
Some
children in the Cooper room have been particularly interested in rainbows over
the last 2 weeks. We have engaged in a range of visual art experiences, including
water colour painting and mixed media collages. These experiences have provoked
discussions about what the children currently know about rainbows. Here were
some of the dialogue taken from these discussions:
Angus
– Rainbows are colourful. We find them from the mountains. We don’t make it, we
wait for it to make.
Freddie
– We see them in the sky.
Charlotte
– I like rainbow like this. There’s pink and orange and red and yellow and
green and I don’t know. Oh, and blue and the other blue. We find them outside.
Poppy
– The sun makes a rainbow. Sun and rain makes a rainbow!
We
will be engaging in a class project on rainbows next week. We are asking for
all childen to bring in a small object to add to a whole class rainbow. These can
include coloured bottle caps, pieces of paper, wrappers etc.
It
is Book Week next week. In celebration of this we will be having a Book Week Parade where the children are invited to dress up as their favourite
character from a book (please no super heros or TV characters). This will be held at 9:15am
in the Town Square on Thursday the 24th of August.
We
hope that you have a lovely weekend.
Love
Miss Gilbert and Miss C
