Dear Parents,
What wonderful
weather to start a busy and bustling Term 4! We have certainly made the most of
it and spent lots of time exploring the outdoors. The water trail has been
running for those of us wishing to take our shoes off and have a splash. We
have diligently watered our fruit and vegetable plantings to ensure they
are getting lots to drink.
We
have ventured up to the Preparatory School playground as a treat and some of
us had a go at the long jump track to see whose little legs could run and
jump the farthest. It was a challenge to coordinate ourselves to seamlessly
move from a run to a jump!
On our walk back
to the ELC the children admired the wonderful Bottle Brush trees. Grace asked
if she could paint them, so we picked some flowers to take back to our
classroom and use as our still life provocation.
We had another
'What's the Buzz' Lesson this week in which we discussed sharing. The
children did a wonderful job playing the 'thumbs up, thumbs down' game and
contributed thoughtful ideas in relation to dealing with friendship issues
that arise in relation to this topic which surfaces on a regular basis. They
were excited to receive the green and yellow reward cards for great listening
and participation too.
During the term
break Mrs McKenzie had a clean out of her 'games cupboard' at home and brought
in some new games for the children to explore this term. We have had lots of
fun learning the rules of these games and challenging each other with friendly
competition.
Best wishes,
Emma, Mel and
Chris
