Dear Mattingley Families and Friends,
Firstly we would like to say a big thank you to Adam and Lucy,
Alice’s mummy and daddy who came to run a footy clinic with us Monday morning. Adam, who is from the Glenelg Football club
bought with him Tim, who was a very tall footy player to help out. After a
quick warm up the children practiced their catching and kicking skills.
Last
week our good friends Joshua S, Jed and Lochlann were trying to work out how to
make their block constructions hold together better. Jed suggested that they use
sticky tape. Together they began to attach sticky tape to their constructions
to hold them. Unfortunately when it came to packing up it was very hard to pull
the blocks apart. The sticky tape worked too well. We had a discussion about
what builders might use to hold their bricks together.
Cement!-
Lachlan exclaimed.
We
didn’t think we could have real cement in the classroom so Monday morning this
week we made a batch of play dough to experiment with, turning our block corner
into a construction site.
Oh yeah cement- Sammy
It sticks it all together- Marcel
The cement helps us build- Felix
Put your ear plugs in coz I’m going to hammer. To
put it all together- Oliver
We making a big tower. I put the bricks on when
Jed puts the cement on- Josh
S
The bricks stick together- Jed
It was
so much fun watching the children work together, negotiating, problem solving
and creating some wonderful constructions together.
Wishing
you all a wonderful weekend,
Kimberley
Mason and Coney Rocca
