Monday, July 23, 2012

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle


Reduce, Reuse and Recycle! We watched a story called 
Pappa please get the moon for me, by Eric Carle
Alyssa and Harriet could recall all the important facts about the story.
Look at their lovely play dough pictures! 

Luke and Jenna hard at work! We are recycling egg boxes to make new paper.
Busy hands.

Squishy squashy hands.

.Massimo makes 'new' paper.
Paige concentrates really hard and makes sure there are no holes in the paper.
World Environment Day 
We remember how important it is to Recycle, Reuse and Reduce! 
Mother Earth
We sing; "He's got the whole world in his hands, he's got the whole world in his hands ................"
We dig holes in the garden for our experiment. We bury some fruit peels, a plastic canister and a tin can.
When we come back to school after the holidays we will dig them up to see what has happened.
 
Recycling old boxes is fun. We have to plan carefully and make sure that the structures don't fall over.
     
We recycle old tins to make a Father's Day gift.
We recycle plastic bottles to make bird feeders.
It is really hard work cutting plastic and punching holes. 
We spent time discussing bird feeders and decided that they must:
- be able to hang in a tree.
- be pretty to make the birds want to come to them.
- be able to hold seeds or food for the birds.
- have a place for the bird to sit.
Some children even added toys to their bird feeders. 
Michael made a slide for the birds.
We practise writing 'p' on the carpet.
Mrs. Webber is very imPressed with Aidans 'p'.
He is very Proud of himself!

Fun in the fantasy garden!
 The Grade 00's are kind to share their 
dress-up clothes with us.
J Our broad smiles say it all!
 Alyssa celebrates her 6th birthday at school.
Ff for Firefighter Fred!
Luke and Harriet slide down the fireman's pole.

 




Welcome back to school for the third term!

Welcome back to the Third Term of Grade R
Michael brought some sugar cane to school. He gave us all some to taste.



Welcome to Coach Simone who will be taking us for 


Kinetics while coach Lauren is on maternity leave.



Massimo and Aidan 'baking cookies' to share with a friend. 



Megan practises to write her name.

Term 3 (Week 1, 2 and 3)  17July – 3 August

Theme:                                   Statues, Sculptures & Symbols
Literacy:                                 Ww for Walter Walrus                                           
                                                Vv for Vicky Violet
                                                Kk for Kicking King

Numeracy:                             Counting
                                                Recognition of numerals
                                                Ordering numbers
                                               
J IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Keep up to date and check out our class blog

Please return report, art shirt and art envelope to school asap.
Please make sure that your child has an extra pair of dry socks at school.

Please collect and send to school:  
-       Egg boxes
-       Boxes for construction
-       Polystyrene  trays
-       Cereal boxes
Events to diarise:
Wednesday, 25 July:                      Eye Tests (Colin van Wyk)
Thursday, 26 July:                           Outing to Dylan Lewis Studio, Stellenbosch     
Thursday, 9 August:                        National Womans Day
Friday,  10 August:                         School holiday

 Baker Baker:

20 July
Emma van Schalkwyk
27 July
Paige Weston
2 August
Arabella Wilson
10 August
Harriet Wraith
17 August
Aidan Beattie

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Reptiles

Reptiles and amphibians
We played snakes and ladders.
 We learn to take turns and to be a good loser and a good winner!
Squeeze painting is fun. Hayden and Emma are hard at work.




Hannah tears off pieces from an egg box to make the tortoises shell.

We  made SSSSSSSSSsssssnakes. We rolled up newspaper and threaded cut up rolls to make the snakes.

It was fun painting crocodiles with coffee, tea and lemon juice. We crushed egg shells to make the crocodiles scaly.

We rolled dice and added teeth to the play dough mats. 
Aidan's crocodile has lots of sharp teeth!
Adam made a salt dough crocodile.
 Look at his croc's strong jaws and sharp teeth

Mrs. Bayer came and told us all about chameleons
She brought baby chameleons to show us too.

                         We are always busy at school.
Harriet and Aidan chose very challenging form boards to complete!
                                J Well done.         J
             

A petting zoo visited Somerset College
What happy faces!















Ii is for.......................an Inuit in an igloo of ice.



Paige and Josh busy with the background for their picture about SSSSSssspace.


Joshua is hard at work too.


GRADE R Mrs. J. Webber
                                    Term 2 (Week 9, 10 & 11)  4 - 21 June

Theme:                                   Reduce, Reuse & Recycle

Literacy:                                 Pp for Poor Peter Puppy
                                                Ff for Firefighter Fred
                                                Jj for Jumping Jim

Numeracy:                             Vocabulary – Measurement
 e.g. Tall/ short
                                               
J IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Keep up to date and check out our class blog

Please collect and send to school:  
-       Egg boxes
-       Boxes for construction
-       Polystyrene  trays
-       Cereal boxes
-    Orange pockets


Please make sure that your child has an extra pair of dry socks at school.
Events to diarise:
Tuesday, 5 June:                             World Environment Day
Wednesday, 6 June:                       Individual & class photograph
Monday, 11 – Friday 15 June:       Visual Screening (during school day)
Thursday, 14 June:                         Sign & collect report from class teacher
Wednesday, 20 June:                     Parent Interviews
Thursday, 21 June:                         Parent Interviews
Thursday, 21 June:                         LAST DAY OF TERM for Pre-Primary children

Baker Baker:

08-Jun
Caroline Morris
15-Jun
Thomas Parsons
20-Jun
Alyssa Pretorius