Entertainmnent

Our exciting week just went on and on this week. The Grade threes and fours have been learning all about the history of Wangaratta. They created a short play to show us all what it was like to be a child in the pioneering Docker family way back when Wangaratta was first settled by farmers and businessmen.

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The fun did not end here. The Grade fives and sixes are entering the Wakakirri Competition where they have to create a play to music and dance with a strong message. Their message was all about having the courage to be yourself.

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Well-done Miss Wills and all the children involved, we just loved your performances.

Some Diary Writing Highlights.

We continue to grow and grow as readers and writers every day. We often do diary writing as this is something that provides us with a great variety of things to write about. To check this out just listen to what we wrote about today.

Noah wrote about his new plans for the playground.

Connor, like all our Preps, really likes playtime.

Tom has a great holiday coming up soon.

Ashton recalls his trip to the Melbourne zoo where the lions were the best thing at the zoo.

Cassidy, like many of our Preps at the moment, has just come back after being sick with a bad cold.

An exciting party engagement for Hayley after school today.

Ethan is never short of a really good idea.

Imogen has some exciting news about next year.

Anthony is recalls an earlier trip to traffic school

Going out shooting with his Dad is what James likes doing the best.

Jeremiah is excited about going to traffic school.

Lachlan had an exciting trip to the police station to see the helicopter.

Riley had a great train trip.

ASSEMBLY

Each Monday morning we have assembly at Wangaratta West. All the school come together in our new school hall.

We start with the National Anthem. Some of us in Prep are getting quite good at singing along with the rest of the grade while Miss Wills plays the piano.

Tom and Ethan were given certificates for being student of the week. We were all very proud of them and theri efforts.

Mr Campbell had a special treat for us at this week's assembly. He had invited friends of his, Doug and Steve to come and show us how to shear a sheep. This was amazing! We were so excited! We have been learning all about farm animals this term, and really seeing shearing in action was just great!

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We also got to feed some lambs. All you need to do is look at our faces here to see what fun this was!

After all the fun was over poor Mr Campbell got to sweep up all the straw! This hardly seemed fair after he gave us such an exciting day!

Thank-you Mr Campbell we had a real ball!

Gymnastics

We are all having a fantastic time with Terry doing gymnastics on Wednesdays. He is teaching us how to perfect our balance and co-ordination. We are developing great body strength as you will see in our little video.

Ask us about some of the things that we like doing best in gymnastics, and what exercises we do to build strength and balance.

Keep your eye on this spot for more updates on our developing skills in gymnastics.

Talking Bags

What an amazing job we did with our first attempt at "Talking Bags."

This activity takes the place of "Show and Tell." It is a much more specifically focused activity which is designed to build our speaking and listening skills.

We start with:

1. Our greeting
2. 3 clues about our mystery object
3. 3 guesses as to what it could be
4. a talk about what we had in our bag
5. questions from the audience.

Have a listen to Tom's first attempt. Congratulations to Tom and his family for getting him so well prepared for this activity.

Ashley spoke very well about her trip to Broome and the lovely shell she has to remind herself of the trip.

Noah was flooded by the questions his photo of a real transformer raised.

Will was very well prepared and spoke beautifully about the wonderful times he has at Little Aths.

Oz Opera

What excitement yesterday when Oz Opera came to Wangaratta West. The Preps were so lucky as they had front row seats, and what fun we had. These talented performers made Opera come alive for us all. We laughed so much, and we were amazed at how loudly and beautifully they could all sing.

The clowns were great, we were amazed by the strong man and his baritone voice, and we just loved Sid the serpent.

The clowns and the strong man all played different roles. We really liked their colourful and clever costumes.

This is the forth year we have had Oz Opera visit our school. Thanks so much Miss Wills for inviting them to Wangaratta West. We do hope that they will come again next year!

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Trouble

If there is one thing we really know all about in Prep it's trouble, - being in trouble ourselves or knowing someone who is. We chose this topic to write about today during writing time.

It seems that untidy rooms and issues with toys rank highly as causes for troubles among our group of Preps.

What would we ever do without those wonderful brothers and sisters to fight with and to give us so much to write about.

Shakyra has done a particularly good job of keeping eye contact with you the audience as she read her story.

Jessie had a spot of trouble with her brother telling her Mum about what she had done.