Ceres School excursion!

CERES Excursion- Last Monday we headed to CERES and had a wonderful day learning about Indian music and dancing, Indonesian transport and games, African drumming and Aboriginal storytelling-‘Tiddilick the Frog’! Many thanks to our wonderful parent helpers. This linked in with our Inquiry topic 'Kids around the World'.

Religion

We read the story 'about Adam and Eve and the sneaky snake. We created our own sock puppets of the Sneaky snake.

We have been learning all about the Creation story. We created beautiful posters.

We learnt about the story 'Noah's Arc'. We retold the story using figures from the story.

We read the story 'The Tallest tower'. We had a go at building the tallest tower, working in groups.

Prep Art show

 Congratulations to the Preps for their amazing Art work in the Art show last week. They created some beautiful butterflies after our recent excursion to the Zoo.

Numeracy-shape Writing

 We have been learning all about Shapes in Maths. We worked with a buddy to create a shape picture using 3D shapes. We then took part in Interactive Writing to describe our shape pictures. For interactive Writing we use a different colour to write the sounds and words that we know. Our buddy then uses a different colour to write the parts that they know.

Fairytales

We are learning about Faiytales in Literacy. We have been reading and Writing about the Gingerbread man. This week we begin looking at Snow White and the seven dwarfs. We have been describing the characters and retelling the story.

Skype session to New Zealand

On Monday we had a very exciting skype session for our Inquiry with Miss Jackson's old class in New Zealand. For Inquiry we are learning about 'kids around the world'. We discovered what the uniform is like at St Joseph's School, Oamaru, New Zealand, what their playground is like and what they learn at school. Some of the biggest differences that we found were that most of the students get to school by bus, they have a big field to play on and their uniform is blue and red.

Happy 100 days at school Preps!

It was so exciting to see the Preps arriving all dressed up as something to do with 100! The teachers even got dressed up! A ladybug with 100 spots, a buzzy bee with 100 stings and I was a Dalmatian with 100 spots!

We had lots of 100 year old children, sleeping beauty who had been asleep for 100 years, a school girl from 100 years ago, a monster with 100 googly eyes, dalmatians with 100 spots and lots of other great outfits.

We started off the day by writing about what we will do when we are 100 and what we will look like. We then drew pictures of how we will look. Come and see our fantastic work outside our classroom. 

We then went outside on the 100th minute of the day and did 100 exercises!

 










 A picture of all the Preps dressed up!

 

 Our Grade 5 buddies joined us after Playtime and sang 'Happy 100 days to you' we ate a delicious cupake with 100's and 1000's on them! We then shared our 100 items we had brought in with us with our buddies and grouped them.. we discovered different ways to make 100. We then make special crowns with '100 days smarter!' written on them.

 

We enjoyed delicious fairy bread with 100's and 1000's for lunch. We then marched around the school to show off our fabulous costumes. The other kids all gave us high 5's as we went past!

 The kids were then presented with special 100 day certificates. What a fun day we had!