Letterland is Fun

 Aa for Annie Apple
Harriet cuts an apple for her lunch snack. She says she is going to eat the skin too!

We each had a turn to cut an apple with Mrs. Webber's apple cutter! We dried the apples and snacked on them during storytime.

Jenna and Luke enjoyed the dried apples.


We  looked at what's inside an apple!
We cut paper to make pips for our apple pictures.

Caleb is practising to draw apples in fingerpaint. 

Our finished pictures!

We also made animals from Africa pictures with playdough.

 Michael is making a giraffe with a long neck!

It was fun painting our animals from Africa. 

We experimented with mixing colours too.

 

  Dd for Dippy Duck..........
and danger!

 

We had lots of fun deconstruction appliances. We discussed  the dangers of working with sharp tools and were all very careful.

Arabella managed to take out a screw, all by herself!
She was very proud of herself.
 Michael said it was lots of fun!


Three dinosaurs! This is difficult. Harriet coloured in the long necked dinosaur.

Look at Michael and Josh's self-portraits.They worked very hard. Mrs Webber loves the detail!

What's inside?

Caroline and Alyssa print with the fruit and vegetables we cut in half. It was interesting looking at the seeds inside.

 Yummy! Watermelon! 
What's inside a WATERMELON?
We had fun investigating all about watermelons. Look at our lovely pictures!

Michael was the baker baker this week.Everyone was very polite and remembered their manners.

Term 1                             (Week 5 & 6) 6 February – 17 February

         

Theme:                             Sports & Hobbies

Literacy:                           Gg for Golden Girl

                                        Oo for Oscar Orange

                                       

Numeracy:                        Rote counting 1 - 24

                                        Recognition of numerals 1 – 15

Days of the week

                                       

J IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• Keep up to date and check out our class blog

http://www.graderblogsomcol.blogspot.com/

Events to diarise:

·        Saturday, 25 February:           Fun in the Sun

We are collecting:

·        Newspaper

·        Boxes for box construction

·        Polystyrene trays

School Activities during the week

Monday	Library
	Life Orientation
Tuesday	Computers
	Ball Skills
Thursday	Kinetics
	Swimming
Friday	Music
	Baker Baker

Baker Baker:

10 February:      Hayden Eaglestone

17 February:      Megan Falkenberg

24 February:      Jenna Gardiner

2 March:            Michael Green

9 March:            Mia Hargraves



Sunny days for swimming

Thursdays are swimming days!

We all lined up and jumped into the water to show Coach Kirsty that we can swim!

 Poor Caroline could only dip her toes into the water.

Mrs. Webber is so pleased to see we remembered our swimming caps.

 

It is lots of fun playing in our pool with friends.

Fun, fun, fun!! Computers with Mr. de Jager is lots of fun too.

Term 1                             (Week 2 & 3) 23 January – 3 February                      

Theme:                             What’s inside?

Literacy:                           Aa for Annie Apple

                                        Dd for Dippy Duck

                                        (Please encourage your child to bring an item for the Literacy table)

Numeracy:                        Rote counting 1 - 24

                                        Recognition of numerals 1 – 10

                                       

J IMPORTANT INFORMATION

·        Please confirm birthday list on the classroom door

• Keep up to date and check out our class blog

http://www.graderblogsomcol.blogspot.com/

Events to diarise:

·        Wednesday, 25 January:        New Parents cocktail party ( by invitation)

We are collecting:

·        Newspaper

·        Boxes for box construction

·        Polystyrene trays

·        Old electrical appliances/cell phone/toaster/camera  etc. –

for the children to take apart to see ‘what is inside’

School Activities during the week

Monday	Library
	Life Orientation
Tuesday	Computers
	Ball Skills
Thursday	Kinetics
	Swimming
Friday	Music
	Baker Baker

Baker Baker:

27 January:        Caleb Dukes

3 February:        Michael du Toit

10 February:      Hayden Eaglestone

17 February:      Megan Falkenberg

24 February:      Jenna Gardiner

Welcome 2012

Welcome to the Grade R class of 2012! 

Welcome back to all the 'old families' and a special welcome to our 'new families'! Here's to a great year. 



Luke Limbert has a little brother is Grade 00 too.

Massimo and Michael enjoy playing in the sandpit.            

 Alyssa shows Hannah around the playground.

Oh, it's good to be back at school!

Michael, Adam and Aidan are very good at threading beads! I wonder if they can count them all?
We learn all kinds of exciting things at school.


 This week we are


 learning about.......................... 

Cc for Clever Cat

Mrs. Webber read us a story about Clever Cat. Megan paints her drawing of the clown who was shot out of the cannon! He was a crying clown with crimson spots on his clothes! Erin makes a 'Clever Cat' with playdough. 

Mia  and Paige thread and tie raffia to make whiskers for their Clever Cat masks.

Caroline builds a puzzle.

Lyn makes friends with Hannah.

Joshua and Aidan make friends, while Emma plays quietly in the dolly corner.

What a lot of detail in your picture Josh! 

 

Joshua has fun rolling playdough.

Yay!!
It's so good to see Coach Lauren again. 

 It's Thursday, ............. it's Kinetics.

Caleb is the balancing champion! 

 Ioannis and Aidan manage well too.

Harriet remembers to drink water during the school day. Oooops, she's filling her bucket with water instead! 

Emma remembers to wear a hat outside. Well done Emma!

Michael and Jenna enjoy digging in the sand.

Snack time........ our favourite time of the day! Mrs. Webber is so impressed with our healthy lunchboxes!

It's home time before we know it.

Tom can pack his bag all by himself! What a big boy Tom.   

Term 1                             (Week 2) 16 January – 20 January                            

Theme:                             My school

Literacy:                           Cc for Clever Cat

                                        (Please encourage your child to bring an item for the Literacy table)

Numeracy:                        Counting 1 - 24

                                        Numerals 1 – 10

                                       

J IMPORTANT INFORMATION

• Keep up to date and check out our class blog

http://www.graderblogsomcol.blogspot.com/

Events to diarise:

·        Wednesday, 18 January:        Parent Information evening

Prep Parents’ Association Annual General Meeting and Parent/Teacher Meetings

The Parents’ Association AGM and Grade 00 to 6 Parent Information Evening will take place on Wednesday, 18 January at 18:00 in the Chapel. A fully supervised baby-sitting service will be available to parents from 17:45 in the Pre-primary playground (Grade 00 to 3) and the Foundation Phase playground (Grade 4 to 7). Parents wishing to make use of this service must please inform Mrs Debbie Erasmus at derasmus@somcol.co.za. Please send a drink and snack with your child.

·        Wednesday, 25 January:        New Parents cocktail party ( by invitation)

Please remember:

·        Hats

·        Aprons

·        Spare clothes in a bag

 School Activities during the week

Monday	Library
	Life Orientation
Tuesday	Computers
	Ball Skills
Thursday	Kinetics
	Swimming
Friday	Music
	Baker Baker

Baker Baker:

20 January:        Erin Cunningham

3 February:        Michael du Toit

10 February:      Hayden Eaglestone