Term 1 Week 7

 

This week we learnt about the letter 'a'.  We discovered that it makes the 'a' as in ant sound.  We went hunting for ants so we could find out how many body parts and legs they have.  We found a big nest of ants to study.

Then we used our fingerprints to make the ants body parts and used textas to add the legs and antennae.

We also made some apples.  We could choose to make a crunchy green apple or a juicy red apple.  Some of them looked very yummy!

We also used apples to paint with!  Last week we had spaghetti pictures and this week we have apple pictures.  Painting with food is lots of fun.

We now have our very own alphabet book.  Each time we do a letter we can cover the letter, make something to glue in and finish the sentence.  This week we wrote 'a is for apple'.

We had another zero day.  This time Zero the Hero brought us the number thirty and we had to stick 30 pipecleaners on.  It was a lot of counting!

After reading the book 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle we made our own caterpillars.  They are very cute.

Then we made wings because our caterpillars are going to have a brand new life and come back as butterflies.  We made them as beautiful as we could.

In literacy this week we started some new activities.  We have four boxes and each group goes to one box and then we switch.  The boxes have lots of different activities.

These superstars are working from the writing box and are using their own writing books.

This group has chosen play dough from the fine motor box to help their wrists and fingers get stronger.

This group is doing puzzles and playing with sounds and letters from the sounds and letters box.

This group is acting out the story of Little Red Riding Hood in the book corner.

We read the story 'Little Red Riding Hood' and we decided that Little Red Riding Hood shouldn't have talked to the Big Bad Wolf because you shouldn't talk to strangers.  We discussed who a stranger is and sorted some photos on the smartboard into people we know and strangers.

We talked about what we should do if we were ever scared of a stranger or if a stranger tried to take us somewhere.  We even went outside and practiced yelling no and running to Mum or Dad.

We talked about people who can help us if mum and dad aren't there.  We could talk to a shopkeeper, a policeman, a teacher or if there was nobody else to help look for a mum with children like you.

We made a handprint that shows people we talk to if we think we are in trouble.

 

 

 

Miss R pretended to be a stranger and tried to trick us into coming with her but we were all too clever!  But Miss R tricked us on Friday afternoon because she pretended to be a stranger and left a comment on our blog asking us to tell where our school was.  Nearly all of us got tricked by her and thought we should tell the stranger where our school was!  So we all talked about how we have to be extra careful on the computer because we can't see who is writing to us.

 

 

One more week until Easter and a VERY long weekend!

 

 

Thank you to all those parents that have been leaving comments.  The children love reading them every week.