Spring is Sprung

Welcome back to school

Birds of a feather flock together 

We listened to the story

Are you my Mother?

Caroline, Thomas and Harriet made pictures about the story of

The Ugly Duckling

Kinetics is fun! 

We learnt about beaks. and feather.

We used our fingers to make the down feathers on our colourful seed-eating parrots.

Arabella works very carefully when she makes the background for her picture.

We painted our fingers to print the wings and added some colourful feathers for fun too.

look how hard Hayden concentrates too!

Yay! J

Adam finished his picture! Well done Adam! 

Counting and sorting feathers was lots of fun and kept us very busy.

Term 4 (Week 1, 2 and 3) 9 – 26 October

Theme:                                   Growing

Literacy:                                 Revision of letters and sounds    

Numeracy:                             Recognition of numerals - 35

                                                Sequencing numbers

                                               

J IMPORTANT INFORMATION

·         Keep up to date and check out our class blog

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

Please remember to send

• ·         art envelope
• ·         a sunhat
• ·         white shirt to paint for Carol service

Events to diarise:

Friday,12 October :              Bandana Day

Tuesday, 23 October:          Grape Stroll

Baker Baker:

12-Oct	Michael Green
19-Oct	Mia Hargraves
26-Oct	Josh Messina
2-Nov	Ioannis Kontipirakis
9-Nov	Massimo Kontipirakis
16-Nov	Adam Lamprecht
23-Nov	Luke Limbert
30-Nov	Lyn Louw
6-Dec	Hannah MacFarlane

I care and helping hands

Founders Day Celebrations

Pre-primary celebrate our school's 

15th birthday in style!  

Fun on the jumping castle!

A magician came to our school.

He gave us a wonderful show and he made each one of us a balloon. 

Emma chose a poodle .

Our theme is "I care!"

We learn about people in our community. We pretend to be firemen.

Paige and Hannah receive the emergency calls. 

Boys to the rescue! 

Massimo completes a story telling sheet about a fire.

Erin makes ladders for the fireman to climb.

Morgan's mom is a doctor. She came to visit us. She brought her medical equipment and told us all about being a doctor.

We also discussed nurses. 

We learnt about Florence Nightingale.

We drew pictures of 'The lady of the lamp". 

 

 We made a restaurant in our classroom. 

We had a lot of fun in our restaurant, shop and internet cafe!

 Table activities keep us very busy at school.

These are pictures of what we would like to eat at a restaurant. 

Michael would serve pizza if he had a restaurant. 

He grates the cheese over his play dough pizza

We play 'school-school' too. It is fun writing our names on the carpet. 

We looked at the bar codes on the products in our 'shop'. 

We wrote the bar codes on the carpet.

Luke made a play dough picture about his news. 

He made a sentence. "I saw Elliot, the man made out of coco cola crates at the Waterfront,"

We drew pictures about Little Red Ridinghood. 

We labelled our pictures.

Hooked on Books entertained us in our new school hall. 

We drew our teachers. 

 Caleb drew our headmaster, Mr De Waal. 

 

Guess who these teachers are!

Busy at school...........................Mia copies a picture onto the elastic board. Well done Mia!

Term 3 (Week 10 and 11) 17 August – 27 September

Theme:                                   Feathered Friends

Literacy:                                 Alphabet letters and sounds (Revision) 

Numeracy:                             Recognition of numerals - 35

                                                Ordering numbers

Life Skills:                              Learn personal particulars –                                                                                              telephone numbers & address & birthdays

                                               

J IMPORTANT INFORMATION

·         Keep up to date and check out our class blog

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

·         Please remember to send a sunhat to school every day.

Events to diarise:

Wednesday, 19 September:           Proudly South African Dress-up day –

(see Communicator)

Monday, 24 September:                  Heritage Day (Public holiday)

Thursday, 27 September:               Last day of term for Pre-primary children

Baker Baker:

21 Sep	Megan Falkenberg
27 Sep	Jenna Gardiner