Chatterboxes

In our buddy session last week, we made chatterboxes out of coloured kinder squares.

Transit of Venus

Today is a very exciting day because Venus is moving past the sun.  It is called the Transit of Venus.  It will take 6 hours for Venus to move past the sun and we can only see this once every 107 years.  We're not allowed to look directly at the sun because it hurts our eyes. 

One of the Dads from our school is called Mr Doblin and he is a scientist.  He brought some special equipment to school today so the kids could look at the Transit of Venus.  We saw a circle of light with a black dot on it.  The circle of light is the sun.  The black dot is Venus.

2D Shapes

In Prep A we have been learning about 2D shapes. 

We played a game called 'Celebrity Shape' which was lots of fun.  Three people had to sit on a chair and Miss Jeffery drew a picture of a shape behind them.  They had to take turns in asking questions about their shape and try to guess what it was.  The people watching could only answer 'yes' or 'no'.  If the answer was 'yes' they could ask another question.

We have also made 2D shape pictures.  We had to stick coloured paper shapes on a piece of white paper to make a shape creature.  We could also draw on the paper to make a face and a background.  Here is a picture of some of our work.

Writing in Prep A

We have been working very hard on our writing in Prep A.  We have been working on using full stops and capital letters, writing on lines and using finger spaces between words.  When we are not sure how to write a word we can look at word posters around the room, check our 'Word Walls' for the word or try to write it ourselves using our 'Have-a-Go' books.

We've been learning to retell stories in our writing.  We write about what happened at the beginning, middle and end.  Two of the stories that we have written about are 'The Gruffalo' by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler and 'Catch a Dragon' by Lisa Thompson and Andy Hamilton.  Here are some pictures of our writing displays.

Sound Waves Chant

Literacy Groups

This term we have started working in literacy groups.  In our groups we are learning all about reading, writing, taking turns and working together. 

Some of the activities we have done are; guided reading with Miss Jeffery, using the computers to help us learn sounds and words, playing rhyming words game, using the listening post with the interactive whiteboard, reading a story called Rascal the Dragon and making our own mini flap books that show the beginning, middle and end of the story.

We are also staring the parent helpers program.  We have had lots of parents volunteer to help out during our literacy group activities and the first helper started today.  Thank you very much parents! We love having you along to help work with us!

Circus Skills

This week in Circus Skills we learnt how to use three more pieces of equipment.  They were hula hoops, ribbons and spinning plates.