Growing

Growing

Angela's mom measures her to see how tall she is.

 

Thank you for looking after the silkworms during the school holidays, Caitlin. 

We all love checking up on the silkworms every morning. 

 Recycling toilet rolls to make pictures of trees.  

 

 We learn that if we do a little everyday we can achieve a lot!

Look how grown up we are getting! 

Christiaan and Lise made patterns and pictures on the elastic boards!

We look at all the interesting things on our Growing table.
Using a magnifying glass is fun. 

We celebrated Bandanna Day in Pre-Primary.  

 Angela and her brother Shaun show off their bandannas.

Welcome back

Welcome back everyone!! 

It is wonderful to be back at school! What fun to see our friends and to play together again. The happy smiles say it all!

It's good to be back and following the school routine.  

 We are learning about the birds and the bees this term.  Putting 'pollen'  on our flowers keeps us busy today.

         

 Leandro makes a play dough picture.

 Ceri exercises her fingers while she makes picture on the elastic boards..

 

 Term 4                          (Week 1 & 2) 11 October –    21 October                            

Theme:                          Growing

Literacy:                         Matching pictures to sounds & letters

                                        Recognising sounds in words

                                        Rhyming words

Numeracy:                      Counting number range 1 - 25

                                        Numerals 1 – 25

                                        Writing numbers 1 – 10

(Emphasis on using the correct font and formation)

                                        Sequencing numbers (before/after/between)

J IMPORTANT INFORMATION

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

Events to diarise:

·        Tuesday 25 October:              Grape Stroll (during the school morning)

·        Tuesday 8 November:             Whole school photograph

·        Wednesday 9 November:       Outing to Scratch Patch

·        Friday 11 November:              Parents Association Movie night

·        Wednesday 16 November:     Orientation Day

·        Thursday 1 December:           Pre-Primary Nativity Concert

Please remember:

·        Hats, aprons &spare clothes in a bag

·        Art Envelopes

Swimming:

Swimming will commence once the water has warmed up.

(Hopefully in about two to three weeks time)

We are collecting cereal boxes and white polystyrene trays

Baker-Baker: 

14 October:                 Caleb Dukes

21 October:                 Lucas Foulon

28 October:                 Amber Ganz

4 November:               Leandro Gatinho

11 November:             Sadie Geard

18 November:             Ceri Gemmel

25 November:             Kristen Germishuys

2 December:               Alys Greeff

8 December:               William Hendry

School holidays at last!

 Heritage Day celebrations in Pre-Primary  

Face paint and dress up days are always fun days. 

Thank you  to the very creative moms, who must have got up very early to prepare for the school day.

The boys have been enjoying playing rugby/soccer at school. Wonderful teamwork and skills developing. Well done chaps! 

Thank you to our class mom, Lucy, who sat painting faces before school too. As we would say at school "You are a CHAMPION!"

The tooth mouse is having a very busy time this Spring.

Great excitement! Reece has lost both his front teeth, he says he can still bite into apples! 

 

  We are also still very busy at school.
It was fun threading Otees to make necklaces. Some of us can even thread the needle and tie a knot.

 Wednesdays are special days! We love going to computer lessons. Mr. de Jager lets us play fun games sometimes.

Coach Lauren is proud of our achievements! 

She gave us each a certificate, with a green sticker for :.

ACROBATIC ACTIVITIES -  Muscle Endurance; Motor Planning; Muscle Power & Flexibilty; Static & Dynamic Balance 

GYMNASTICS - Beam work; Floor work 

TRAMPOLINE - Rhythm; Co-ordination. .

Coach Lauren said: 


"Well done Angela!". 

It was lots of fun washing all the dolly clothes.  We hung them outside to dry. We wondered what happened to the water when the clothes dried. We learnt a new word - evaporation!

          

Spring is here!!! Finally. 


Caleb works very diligently on his 'Spring flowers' picture.

Painting on easels outside, enjoying the sunshine. 

It's good to be 6 ( or nearly 6) and have buddies at school!

Caleb went to help Grant up onto the see-saw seat. It was not easy! 

(I wonder who was sitting on the other side?)

William offered his help and the boys managed to get the job done. Talk about team work!! 

Well done chaps, Grant's broad smile says it all. 

  Alys enjoys doing the monkey bars, while Amber patiently waits her turn.