Hi Everyone!
We have welcomed our 21st student into the class this week. A huge welcome to Rupert and his family into our class.
It has been the fortnight of birthdays in the class at the moment with neverending supplies of cake and numerous renditions of happy birthday. We no longer have any six year olds and have now moved into the world of ten year olds.
Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to come and have a meeting with me or has booked a time to come and see. It has been great to sit down and chat with all of you and talk about the things that the children get up to in the class.
Wendy’s class has organised a ‘rubbish free lunch day’ which occurred today. This encourages awareness about the amount of rubbish that is generated by school lunches and has taught us all some very interesting strategies to reduce waste in our school. Thank you to all the children in Wendy’s and to all the children who participated. Sorry there was no warning about this in previous newsletters, unfortunately it was only organised late last week.
We have moved onto a new topic in maths: Measuring time. The children have started working with a range of clocks including digital and analog time. We have also begun discussions about the difference between am and pm. We are also beginning to write factual descriptions about forms of communications and have received a few old phones that we plan to take apart and study how they work from the inside out. Thank you to everyone who donated their old phones for this purpose. The children have all begun to work on their personal interest projects with enthusiasm and energy. I will let you all know when they are up and ready for display so that you can come in and have a look at them. They are always so interesting to see. Please remember that it is not an expectation that they work on these at home, they are given designated time each week to work on them.
That’s all for this week. Have a great week!
From Olivia
