Another whirlwind week in Edgerley, the weeks are passing by
very quickly now. We have begun to discuss and share where we are all moving to
next term and have made a list in our classroom. It has been exciting for some
children to finally find out who they will be moving with. For those children
who are graduating to preparatory school, they have also begun to make their
graduation caps. We asked them the question, ‘What is a graduation?’
“It’s when you go to a new part of this school” said David
“Or to a new school” added William
“I went to a graduation last year, Zoe, Tallulah, Declan and
Andre!” said David
“I have to put the whole thing together to go on my head
because I am going up to this prep school” said Sylas, referring to his newly
completed cap
“The Cooper Room will all go in Edgerley” explained William
“And all the Langley will go to Cooper. It depends on how
many kids we got who will come to go to Langley though” added David, further
explaining the process
“We are going to see Mrs Blethyn” said Sylas
“The new teacher in here will be Miss C, and the other ones”
said David
“Our new teacher in the prep school is Miss Blethyn and he
is a girl” said William
It has been wonderful to observe how well prepared and
excited about the upcoming moves the boys are, whether they be two classrooms
over, up to the Prep school or across the city.
We further explored worms this week and began to talk more
specifically about the concept of habitats. We discovered our worm habitat had
become a desert habitat!! Luckily we didn’t find any camels. We have begun to
make a list about what worms really need (with moisture at the top of the
list!) and will begin to create a more successful habitat that we can observe
in our last two weeks.
Our obsession with paper planes also resurfaced this week
and so we took the opportunity to explore some literacy and numeracy knowledge
as we worked together to create a list of instructions for plane making, as
well and numeral comparison and formation as we numbered our planes. For
those wanting to make a plane at home below are the instructions the boys
formulated in their own words.
1. Get
paper
2. Fold
it in half the skinny way
3. Fold
two triangle parts at the top, fold them on the line
4. Fold
two more long triangles over the top
5. Fold
it again in half
6. Fold
the wings
7. Then
make it fat
8. You
test it out!
On a personal note, it was lovely to return to the classroom
after long service leave. The children were so keen and eager to share their
achievements from the last two months with me. Varish enthusiastically informed
me “Mrs Bishop, I can wink and push myself on the swing now!”. It has been
wonderful to spend the last three days with the boys and catch up on lots of
cuddles and giggles.
Have a lovely weekend
Mel, Emma and Ty
