What a wonderful time we had!

Dear parents

What a wonderful last few weeks it has been. We continued our sand and water topic by making a big cozy sand and water corner in our classroom where we had the chance to look at fish, explore the sensory bottles and relax on the pillows.

One of our tadpoles turned into a froglet who soon turned into a frog. Everybody was very excited to see how fast the transformation went! Our frog was so tiny but very cute. We kept him for a few days until we returned him with all his other tadpole brothers and sisters to the pond they came from. After this frog adventure we had two students who came into our classroom to show us how real toads look like! We were able to feel them and even had them on top of our head! We leanred about the differences between a toad and a frog and it was very interesting.

We also learned about different kinds of seacreatues. We learned about what they look like, what they eat, and all the other characteristics. We each made our favourite seacreatues and put them on a big ocean frieze that we made ourselfs. After this we exprimented some more with different kinds of sand and made sand and glue artworks.

To take a break form our topic we had artweek! The children made a variety of artworks in miss Anya, miss Mia and my classroom. We made Aboriginal dot art using cotton swaps, paint and black paper. On the rhythm of real Aboriginal music we put dots on the paper. We had a lot of fun and putting the dots on paper was very relaxing.

After artweek we learned all about rain, clouds and what to wear when it’s rainy. We discovered different kinds of clothing/materials and what it means when something is waterproof. We made cloud and rain artworks and learned a new song! The song was called pitter patter raindrops and the song came with fun dance moves!

Soon after that we learned about boats. What do they look like? And why do we use them? Together with this we learned about sinking and floating and did some experiments on this topic.

Of course… we can’t learn about boats without mentioning pirates!

Together we discovered the story of the pirates and the sea monster. The pirate ship sunk to the bottom of the ocean because the seamonster bit a big hole in the ship! The pirates had to swim to shore and the parrot luckily was able to fly away. The parrot came to our classroom on Monday and told us all about it. We made our own boats and pirates hats! To finish our pirates topic, a real pirate came to our classroom who wanted his parrot back! In exchange for the parrot the children were given a treasure chest with cookies inside. We had lots of fun!

In between all this we continued to practice our cutting skills. We also worked on our fine motor skills by learning how to use tweezers to pick up things. And finally we practiced holding a pencil.

Everybody was very excited when Ms Inbal came to our classroom to visit us with sweet baby Ben. The children came up with the idea to hide in our sand and water cozy corner to trick Ms Inbal into thinking they were gone! When she came inside they said ’surprise!!’. We sat with her and talked about the baby and how everybody has been since she left. We gave her many hugs!

We also celebrated Sebatians and Yagos birthday! Congratulations to you two and thank you for the wonderful treats.

During the last two weeks we opened up a shop in our classroom where we sold shells, rubber ducks, and other small items. We learned how to buy and sell, we payed with money and used the cash register. They all enjoyed it very much.

We had our sand and water exit point on a very hot day! All morning we played in paddling pools, water slide and played water games. We played with waterballoons and had a boat race using our own boats we made out of foam clay. Woohoo!

Finally, we had to say goodbye to Teagan who is going back to the United Stated of America and to Loic who is moving to Canada! We wish you both the best of luck with this new adventure and we will miss you all very much. We hope to see you again some day and don’t forget to send us some mail!

I want to say a big thank you to Ms Anne, Ms Reccarda and Ms Esti for helping out in LPP!

And fnally want to wish you all a lovely summer holiday and see you in September!!

Big hug

Ms Lori