Grade R Ready Steady Go

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

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

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

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Insects, bugs and creepy crawlies

Insects, bugs and Creepy Crawlies!

Ll is for ......... for Lucy Lamp Light

Megan listens carefully! She coloured, then cut and pasted the shapes to make a Lucy Lamp Light lady.

Jenna and Lily draw the missing parts of the beetle and bugs.

We learnt that some insects have wings. Luke helps to sort the insects. We counted their legs. We learnt about skip counting too.

Luke was the baker-baker this week! What lovely butterfly biscuits!

We used rollers to make the background for the bug pictures.

We looked at snails while we were drawing.

Bb is for .......... butterflies, beetles and bugs!

We made bug biscuits to bake at home.

Using bits and bobs to make butterflies, beetles and bugs was a lot of fun!

Bugs on leaves

We made play dough pictures of the life cycle of ladybirds.

Ioannis and Josh are really proud of their work.

We loved looking in books too. Michael and Joshua had fun.

Don't 'bug' us - we are very busy!
We draw with wax crayons on a hot tray. It melts the wax and makes the bugs very colourful.

Sister Debbie came and told us

the story about Noah's Ark.

We learnt that Noah even took insects on board the ark.

Term 2 (Week 7 & 8) 21 May – 1 June

Theme: Reptiles

Literacy: Ii for Impy Ink

Ss for Sammy Snake