Feathered Friends

Visiting the Dylan Lewis Studio in Stellenbosch was great fun and very educational.

Fun on the bus.

  

A visit to Eagle Encounters, at Spier, was great fun. We learnt a lot about birds of prey.

Boys enjoying watching Sky, the Jackal Buzzard.

 It was a wonderful learning experience too. We learnt some interesting facts:

Sadie: "Owls can hear the heartbeak of a mouse."

Nicholas: "Owls ears are under their feathers."

Kristen: "Birds have more bones in their necks tyhan we do, so they can turn their heads right around to look behind."

Christiaan: " The birds catch their food with their clawas."

Ewan: "An eagles claws are as strong as a lions jaws!"

Lise: "A vulture doesn't have feathers on his neck, 'cause he sticks it in a dead animal to eat the meat."

Reece: " Birds have very sharp eyes."

 

The owls danced to Shakira's music. They made us laugh.

    

It is fun counting with the feathers Ewan brought to school.

Lise brought plastic bottles to school to recycle so we made bird feeders with them. 

Founders Day Celebrations!

Sticky buns, JCs and jumping castles! What more could we want ?

 

 We spend time discussing body image. We learnt some new words like

jaw, pupil, iris and temple.   

                     Working hard at our self portraits.

 

 

Mrs. Webber read us a story called PUFFIN'S HOMECOMING, The Story of an Atlantic Puffin by Darice Bailer. We discussed the shape of a puffin and drew pictures .

   

Yy is for Yellow Yo-yo Man. 

Lise brought her Yorkshire terrier to school. 

We made yachts.

Taydden and Alys have a 'y' in their names. 

  
 We made saltdough pictures of an egg. We painted the yolks yellow.

Ewan and Christiaan work on their pompoms.

 

Term 3                             (Week 8 & 9) 5 September – 16 September                        

Theme:                             Wind and Air

Literacy:                           Identifying initial letters and sounds

                                        Matching pictures to sounds & letters

Numeracy:                        Number Range 1 - 25

                                        Numerals 1 – 25

                                        Sequencing

J IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• Keep up to date and check out our class blog http://www.graderblogsomcol.blogspot.com/
• Reports to be returned by the following please:

Christiaan Muller

William Hendry

Taydden Naidoo

·        Tuesday,13 September

The Velveteen Rabbit

(Our children have been invited to watch the Foundation Phase play. This will take place during the course of the school day.)

·        Wednesday, 21 September -Hooked on Books (during the school morning)

·        Wednesday, 28 September is the last day of the Third Term.

It will be a fun dress up day

Theme: Rugby World Cup/Proudly South Africa

·        Please refer to the School Communicator for Information regarding the Teacher/Parent Interviews

AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE LIBARY

Library is on a Monday

·        No books are sent home without a bag

·        Children may not take out new books if they have any outstanding, even if they have their library bag

PLEASE REMEMBER TO SEND ALL YOUR EMPTY CEREAL BOXES TO SCHOOL.

Baker-Baker: 

9   September:        Angela Scott

16 September:        Taydden Naidoo

23 September:        Christiaan Muller

28 September:        Sasha Huber

              
 

 

                            

 

 

 

 

 

 

Extinct and Endangered Animals

  Caleb draws a dinosaur.    

We have fun making dinosaur pictures. We put our page on a hottray and draw with wax. It makes our dinosaurs look scaly. 

We "research" extinct and endangered animals in books.

   








We play with puppets of endangered animals. Kristen and Nick put on a show for their friends.

 

We made our own puppets and had fun entertaining each other. 

                                                  
Action shots from Miss. de Jager’s movement classes!

 

   

We have to listen to and follow instructions. 

           

We have to cooperate with the children in our group. We learn to share and take turns. We encourage our friends and praise them when they do well.     

     

    

Christiaan and Ceri find different ways to move a beanbag  between the beacons.

 Jj for Jumping Jim. We each made a Jumping Jim puppet at school.

We jumped a lot in our movement lessons too.

           

We practise writing our names at school.

Angela painted a picture of her news. She stayed at home.

Term 3                             (Week 6 & 7) 22 August – 2 September                    

 Theme:                            Feathered Friends

Literacy:                           Listening for and recognising initial sounds and final sounds  

Numeracy:                       Vocabulary relating to measurement

                    `                   Numerals 1 - 25 

J IMPORTANT INFORMATION 

THANK YOU TO THE GATINHO FAMILY WHO KINDLY DONATE THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS IN THE FOYER.

• Keep up to date and check out our class blog http://www.graderblogsomcol.blogspot.com/
• Outing to Eagle Encounters: Tuesday, 23 August
• Please refer to School Communicator

• Founders Day Celebration: Friday, 26 August
• Please refer to School Communicator

• Outing to Sculptor Dylan Lewis
• Reports still outstanding:
Christiaan Muller
William Hendry
Taydden Naidoo 

Baker-Baker: 

2 September:          Eden Seha

9 September:          Angela Scott

Fun to be back

Caleb brought his puppy to school when we were learning about Peter Puppy!

Pp is also for a pink or purple pony.

                                   We mixed colours to make pink and purple. We punched holes and knotted wool to make a mane for the pony.  We also made pictures of penguins. Christiaan and Taydden love playing swingball.

Our theme is Statues and Sculptures

 Miss deJager is a teacher in our class too.

She told us a story about Just Nuisance.

 Here are Ewan and Grant with their clay sculpture of him.

 

 

Caleb and Alys made a food sculpture.

Miss de Jager told us a story about Wolraad Woltemade. She showed us a statue of him. We talked about bravery. We made badges for brave people.We are very proud of ourselves.

We play musical statues too.
 Ii is for .....instruments.

    Lucas likes to play a triangle. 

We get creative and make insects for an art activity.

 Alys gets glitter all over her hands.

Nick counts to see how many legs 5 insects have.

Christiaan and Angela count insects too. 

Term 3                                                (Week 4 & 5) 8 – 12 August                         

Theme:                                    Extinct and Endangered Animals

Letterland:                             Xx for Max and Maxine

Yy for Yellow Yoyo Man        

Zz for Zigzag Zebra

Numeracy:                             Recognition of numerals

                                                Data Handling

J IMPORTANT INFORMATION

·      Keep up to date and check out our class blog http://www.graderblogsomcol.blogspot.com/

·      Please return reports and Art envelopes ASAP

·      PLEASE return the School Communicator CD once you have loaded it onto your PC (please let me know if you have returned the CD to Jean Dawson)

·      REMEMBER to check the school communicator regularly in order to keep up to date

·      Please remember to make sure your child has a change of clothing at school

·      There are still children without art shirts at school.

Baker-Baker: 

12 August:       Grant van der Merwe

19 August:       Caitlin Swartz