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.

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.