Hi everyone.
Firstly, thank you to Rowena for taking the group last Friday when I was away. The kids all seemed to have a great day.
This week in Wendy’s class we are running a Rubbish Free Lunch Day to raise awareness about the amount of rubbish generated by school lunches. Last Wednesday we conducted the first audit of lunchtime rubbish and today we are doing the same…. after an education program with each class about how to reduce, recycle or re-use instead of just chucking away! We will write a full report about our findings for next week’s newsletter. If we are able to substantially reduce the amount of rubbish, we may be eligible for a grant from Lane Cove council to purchase more worm farms and compost bins.
Also this week is the 40 Hour Famine which starts at the end of the week. Some children are giving up technology or talking and some will be fasting. Please give generously for it’s all in a good cause. The funds this year are going to assist famine victims in Africa.
We are choosing a new book to read aloud this week and there are many suggestions! Children in our group read widely and have strong opinions about what they would like me to read to them! We are completing comprehension questions and mini projects about our new pet rats to ensure we all know as much as possible about their needs. In Maths, we are completing a unit of work on data, graphing and some beginning statistics. Elaine (our scientist in residence) is working with us this morning on the statistics we collected about how children travel to school each day.
Our unit on science (chemistry and other experiments) has been on hold with so much else going on but we’ll be doing more of that next week and possibly visiting CSIRO for a science excursion later this term.
Parent interviews are proceeding well… remember to come and speak to me if you are having trouble finding a time to suit. From Monday next week, piano lessons will be back to normal. I am sorry for all the disruption and I hope everyone has continued to play, play, play!!
I think that’s all for today. Please feel free to come in and look at our new pet rats. The agreements about handling them are on a poster on the door.
Have a great week.
Love, Wendy
