Dear Parents and Friends,
This week has been filled will all sorts of adventures in the Cooper Room. Children have invited their Dads in for show and tell. Zac and his Dad even played the guitar for us while we sang a couple of songs together.
"My Dad plays the guitar. He plays the bass guitar. His precious guitar is black. He plays in the Beatles band and James Bond too!" said Zac.
Children have also loved creating family portraits and using our water palette paints to add detail to them.The children have carefully selected the colours which best represent their skin colour and hair colour. The children have been using mirrors and photographs to make their comparisons.
The fire station has once again been very busy attending to all the fires and accidents in the room. We have been interested to see the way the children are also including other emergency staff such as police and ambulance officers who have also been involved in the call outs for help. The children are now precise in their emergency calls.
"Where are you? Is anybody in the house? " said Oliver
"We can't see you yet. Wait until we are at the top of the hill. Then we will ring again," added Liam
"Is anybody hurt?" asked Jack "We better call an ambulance too!"
The Clipsal has also brought some rich discussion into the classroom this week. On Friday we walked up to the back oval and watched the RAAF Roulette Flyers zoooooooom over the school. The children laid down on their backs and watched in awe as the six planes performed some amazing tricks overhead. At times we thought they were heading straight for us.
"Who is driving those planes?" asked Gabby "Is their Mum driving them?"
"Why do they have smoke coming out?" asked Jarrah "I think they have a teeny, tiny, little switch to turn the smoke on."
"They are doing loop the loops up there!" said James
"There are six planes they are flying fast Mrs Lock" added Florence
"They are in a straight line. It looks like an eleven now," said Gabby.
What an adventure! Even counting in the sky.
Enjoy a wonderful weekend with your family.
Kind regards
Susan and Coral
