Inquiry Trip

Hi all,

I will be sending home a permission slip for our inquiry trip to the Time Theatre at Lyall Bay.
On the day I will require you all to bring in a car seat for your child. I'm still looking for parent helpers with transport for the trip. If you can help, please let me know asap:).

We will be departing school at approximately 9.30 am and returning to School just before 12.30pm, the 1st December.

Inquiry Share

Hi all, I have realised I have put the incorrect date in the Newsletter for the Inquiry Share. The correct date is Wednesday 26th November, 2pm-3pm. Sorry for any inconvenience this has caused.
The date for our class trip to Time Cinema in Lyall Bay is Monday 1st December. We need 5 parent helpers that can drive students to the cinema and supervise students while we are there, please see me if you can help.

Thank you for your support,

Zara

Inquiry- taste testing

All the children had a great time taste testing their favourite family baking recipes on Wednesday. Each child sampled four recipes and scored each one on appearance, smell and taste, giving them a rating of 1, 2 or 3. The winning recipes will be sold at a bake sale which our buddy class and a junior class of their choice will be invited to. We have started work on our recipe book which we will be presenting to our parents. Children have been answering the questions...Why is my recipe great? What do I enjoy about baking? In addition we have started work on our title page for the book. At the end of week 6, small groups will go to the learning hub with Karin and bake one of the winning recipes.

Storyboards

Today I introduced a new planning tool to the students; the storyboard. The aim is to get children to plan their stories in sequential order and to get them thinking about the details in the small moments that occur in their lives. For some breaking a story idea into three parts was tricky and needed some thought. Questions posed were, how did you get to where you were going? What did the environment look like that you were in? What happened? Who were you with? We will be turning our story boards into books, it will be interesting to see how they develop over the next few days. We all enjoyed sharing our storyboards with each other at the end of the session.

Developmental time on Friday

I'm always looking for hands on, fun and creative experiences to bring into the classroom. On Friday, I covered two tables in paper and placed African animals on one and Dinosaurs on the other. It was K7's job to draw the habitats for the animals. This was great fun and the children really enjoyed it.

Letter Writing

With the introduction of a class letter box, K7 have been really excited about writing letters. We've had lessons on letter writing and we have a buddy to write to each week. I have given the option of writing letters as a literacy activity and it has been very popular. It is great to see the children exploring different mediums of writing and choosing to write.

What did we get up to in week 9?

K7 are working very well on completing their independent work. They had a blast making Ukuleles. They came up with the idea to make a strap made of string all by themselves!