In the Classrooms

Langley
Inspired by building plans, pictures of buildings and photographs of our own houses we have been creating our own structures using boxes and recycled materials. The children have been developing their fine motor skills as they use the sticky tape and glue to join their boxes together and attach small details.
“I make a crocodile, I sticka, sticka” said Kristian,
“It’s my new house with two toilets” commented James S
“Dat’s Daddy” said Luca
“A boat” Susannah told us
“A bird” said Gwen
To continue our building and construction next week, we would love donations of any recycled boxes and containers and are still eager to have more photos of children’s own houses to share with their peers.
Kind regards,
Jess, Kerry, Jennifer and Hayley
Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
Wow! What a day the children had on the Lightsview excursion. The bus trip there was the start of the excitement, followed by seeing diggers, buildings in all stages of development, playgrounds and icypoles at the end. Here's some observations by the children.
Look at the big one, they had to use lots of material to cover it - Ella
It's an apartment - Dillon
It's a building site - Joshua
Look, a skyscraper - Tommi
It will go fiveteen high - Zach
Ten high - Charlie
They have got lots of balconies. One up really high (scaffolding) - Ella
He's using wires in the house to do the electricity - Molly
This is ready for a house to build here -Jack O
This is a slab - Charlie
They will build a house on top - Jack O

Best wishes,
Emma M, Susan and Emma G Cooper
On our excursion to Lightsview we saw many different building materials including large pallets of bricks. Over the last couple of weeks the Cooper children have shown a great interest in this building material and its ability to be Big Bad Wolf proof! Back in our classroom we used blocks and paint to stamp brick shapes and create pictures of very strong houses…
“One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, it’s this tall” said Toby. “Two storeys, now it’s three storeys” he said as he stamped another row of block prints. “That’s how many I use, ten storeys.”
“I have big one” said Cooper.
“It’s nearly done – it’s gonna be like bricks” thought Bailey.
Now we are seeing bricks everywhere and will be looking for more on our walks around the school next week.
Kind regards,
Ali, Rosalie and Janine Chapple
"We went inside a building and saw nails, pipes and wood" observed Ryan "Buildings have skeletons made out of metal, wood and other types of stuff" suggested Ethan "I liked going inside the building to see the pipes" added Jesse "I liked going to the parks best" said Max A "Inside the house I saw dirt and rubbish, hammers and I like the really tall building too" stated Oliver

We had a fabulous time on our trip to the building site! Edgerley
Another week filled with construction! We loved our trip to Lightsview on Monday and saw all sorts of houses under construction. We were thrilled to observe a little digger creating a front yard. We stopped to see it scrape up the dirt and then open the bottom of its scoop to dump the soil. Thankyou to Olivia’s Dad for organising this wonderful trip for us. It encouraged lots of discussion about what our own homes were made from.
We continued to work on our cork and pop stick creations and began to add things like floors and walls. Come and have a look, some are over seven storeys high! We also began our brick house this week. Deacon, Erin, Lucy and Apollon and observed the patterns in the pictures of bricks and began to stack our tissue boxes in a similar way. We discovered we need lots more tissue boxes to make it into a real house!...so keep those tissue boxes coming in!
Kind regards
Mel, Pip and Rachel