Dear Mattingley
families and friends,
We have spent our
week watching and waiting, waiting and watching for our butterflies to emerge
out of their chrysalis. At the end of our week we find ourselves still waiting.
Hopefully there is some movement early next week. Make sure you keep watching.
Still not
yet?- Teddy
This the
chrysalis. Butterfly come out- Sofia
This one
butterfly. This one caterpillar- Parker
What a wonderful
day we had Wednesday celebrating Harmony Day as a centre. In our classroom we
shared the book 'Ten little fingers, ten little toes' by Mem Fox, focusing
on how we all look different but on the inside we are all the same. We all have
eyes, we all have a mouth, we all feel sad and we all feel love.
The children were then encouraged to choose a pebble each to paint to
represent themselves. Once they had finished Mrs Mason put them all together on
a canvas to represent our class. All our pebbles are different but they are all
still pebbles. Once everyone has finished painting their pebbles we will
put our collage on display in the classroom.
Also this
week Riani shared with us her love of writing letters, giving both Miss
Mason and Miss Baldasso letters with her name beautifully written on each. This
gave us the wonderful idea to make a post office within our classroom. Using
one of the huge boxes that Riani's Daddy brought in last week the children
through they would make a post box, but first we needed to work out what colour
it needed to be. Riani suggested we use the iPad to have a look. Armed with our
iPad we set to work researching letter boxes in South Australia. We found that
there were two different types. A red one for everyday letters and a blue one
for express letters.
We just need a
red one- Riani
decided.
As we painted our
letter box the children brainstormed what a post office is and what they would
use their letter box for.
You post
letters. I mean mail- Didier
And post
cards- Anthony
Send to all
of your friends- Riani
You put people
and houses on the front. That's how they know where to send them- Didier
Then you get
mail out of the mail box- Anthony
Evie and Laney
gave me a poster. It had princesses on it. It was in my letter box for my other
birthday- Sarina
You draw
letters- Sofia
You need a
pencil- Hudson
We look forward
to watching our post office take shape over the next few weeks.
Kimberley and
Liana
