We have begun our exploration into our new unit of inquiry, Built It Up, with enthusiasm. We have been examining housing frameworks and creating our own to inspire discussions about features of houses and buildings;
It’s a roof, it a roof, look! – Kristian
You do a roof, a window, a door. Dere’s free (three) doors. All finish – Luca
A door, a roof, a window, stairs – Gwen
My house big and tall like dis one (points to picture) – James S
A red one. I made my house, has to be strong – Abhinav
I do houses – Advaith
We have also been exploring concepts of building with a range of construction materials in both the indoor and outdoor environment and have been reading and retelling the story of the Three Little Pigs.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Hayley and Pippa
Mead
What are buildings for? What is a building? What do you see when you look at this building? How did that building get there?
We have pondered many questions in the Mead Room this week, along with doing sketches of buildings, constructing buildings from blocks, lego and junk materials. During one discussion about the uses of buildings, our ELC was one we focussed on.
"It's a school. We need alot of room to fit all of these classrooms in" Jack O said.
"It's for playing in" Harry added.
"And it's for learning. It's big because lots of kids want to learn in it" Tommi suggested.
"But it's not for running in" Zach H insisted.
Oliver added, "It's to write in. You can run outside".
Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G
Cooper
The Cooper children have been very enthusiastic about our new inquiry unit 'Build It Up'. They eagerly set about building lots of tower constructions in our room and looked at photos of towers around the world.
Angus looked at a picture of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and chose a cardboard tube to construct with. He showed his tower to Miss McKay and explained, “That’s a flag at the top. I built one of those, this is a tower. There’s just the windows. It’s a tall one with people inside. They are the stairs then you go down and come out, you lift it up and it’s the door.”
“I build a building. It’s a work building. It’s going to be a big building” said Chloe.
“I am going to make a house, I gonna put a roof on” said Sophie.
Alec began to build a block tower and Archie joined him. The tower was very tall and Alec chose a cylindrical block to go at the top. “I gotta chimney to put on top” he said.
“That big me” observed Archie looking up to the top of the tower.
“It’s bigger than me” said Alec.
“Wow! So huge!” exclaimed Felix.
“It’s big ‘cause it’s got lots of blocks” Sophie explained.
”We make those ones” said Alec pointing to the tower photos. “We’re making that one" he said looking at a picture of the Eiffel Tower.
Warm wishes
Ali, Rosalie and Janine
Chapple
Welcome back to the last term of the year....we have a very busy term ahead of us! This term we are exploring the topic "Build It Up". Already we have had some fascinating discussions taking us from cities to buildings to ancient Egypt and the pyramids. The children have really enjoyed constructing with foam and toothpicks to create 3D buildings and hammering at the carpentry table. Please have a read of some of the discussions on the skyscrapers we made on our classroom wall. Some of the children have been busy making building plans for a cubby house outside, so if all goes according to their plans we may have an update on the cubby house next week....stayed tuned!
We would like to extend a warm welcome to Jack and his family who have joined our class this term.
A reminder about health checkups next week on Wednesday the 26th, if you have not made an appointment and wish to book one in, please let Julie Porter know as soon as possible.
Warm wishes - Suria, Sinead and Sue
Welcome back to the last term of the year....we have a very busy term ahead of us! This term we are exploring the topic "Build It Up". Already we have had some fascinating discussions taking us from cities to buildings to ancient Egypt and the pyramids. The children have really enjoyed constructing with foam and toothpicks to create 3D buildings and hammering at the carpentry table. Please have a read of some of the discussions on the skyscrapers we made on our classroom wall. Some of the children have been busy making building plans for a cubby house outside, so if all goes according to their plans we may have an update on the cubby house next week....stayed tuned!
We would like to extend a warm welcome to Jack and his family who have joined our class this term.
A reminder about health checkups next week on Wednesday the 26th, if you have not made an appointment and wish to book one in, please let Julie Porter know as soon as possible.
Warm wishes - Suria, Sinead and Sue
EdgerleyWe started the final term of the year of with lots of construction and discussions about buildings. Children were busy at the light table with Perspex blocks and also at the making table in the break out space creating constructions out of cardboard boxes and junk materials. (Our enthusiasm means that we are now already running low on boxes, please save your cardboard boxes and bring them to Kindy!)
Then on Tuesday night Adelaide experienced an earthquake. There was much discussion about the way the earthquake felt and how it was caused. Zac shared his non-fiction book with us so that we could learn more about the earth.
“It was a earthshake” – Elliot
“No! a earth crack” – Alex
“It was right deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep down!” – Zac
“It feels like a milkshake” – Oliver
“It was like a truck” – Noah
“Like a big lion, it roared” – Ajeet
“I slept all the way through!” - Soren
“It feeled like a train” – Daisy
“When I go on a trampoline I look like an earthquake too” – Cooper
Thankyou to Mrs Tiller and Miss Renee who worked with us this week.
Kind regards
Mel, Pip and Rachel
