Japanese Lessons in Prep

We are so lucky in Prep to have Tomomi Kagawa who has come all the way from Japan to teach us Japanese.

In Prep we have been learning greetings such as "Good morning," and "Good afternoon." We have learned the names of some animals and how to count to ten. We have learned the names of our body parts and we are starting to learn the names for colours. What a busy time we are having.

Tomomi Kagawa is teaching us many of our new words through songs. We do hope that you enjoyed the snapshots we have shown you of some of the songs we have learned to sing so far.

The Digger Arrived Today

What great excitement in Prep today. The digger, or backhoe, arrived this afternoon and the Preps were right there to see it. We were so exited when we heard the great clatter outside as the digger came rumbling in on its rolling tracks. We wasted no time in going out to see what was happening.

Conner used great observation skills to notice that one track remained still, while the other rolled round to make the digger turn.

It was fun to see the digger scraping up the dirt, a little sad to see it take away the sides of our sandpit, and ever so exciting when it knocked down the bottlebrush trees just outside our building! We could smell the trees as they were being squashed by the digger. We then went back into the classroom and had such an excited conversation about what we had seen. We learned so many new words from each other to describe the sights, smells and sounds that we had just experienced.

Keep your eye on this spot as we share with you our excitement at the building of our new school.

Our plans for the holidays

On the last day of term we talked about all the wonderful things that we thought we might be doing over the school holidays. After all that discussion we were ready to use our growing skills as writers to write down some of our plans.

Mrs Krake recorded some of us as we read our stories to the rest of the class in share time. As you can see we are getting to be amazing little writers and we are quite proud of our efforts.

Keep an eye on this spot to celebrate with us when you see how we grow as little learners.