Sarah’s Class Week 6 Term 2

Hello everybody,

I hope you’ve had a nice weekend so far. How nice that we get an extra day!

We’ve had another lovely time this week embedding ourselves in The Dreamtime/ Dreaming. We’ve been looking at episodes from another series produced by ABC called “Dust Echoes” These are animated Dreamtime stories from Central Arnhem Land, based on traditional stories of love, loyalty, duty to Country and Aboriginal custom and law. We focused this week on an episode called “The Mimis”. It’s the story of a young man who believes he is a disappointment to his father. He is taken by little friendly creatures (Happy Spirits), the Mimis, who teach him to be happy and joyful. His father then finds him, and there is a joyful realisation that his father loves him. The main theme of the story is about relationships and identity. After watching, we made our own little ‘Happy Spirits’ out of sticks, cloth, twine, shells and leaves and then wrote about them., creating a story behind their making.

Also this week we looked more at The Fact Family in Multiplication and Division and labelled the names and properties of 2D shapes. We completed another unit in our Soundwaves Spelling which focused on the sounds ‘l’ and ‘ll’ as in ‘lizard’ and ‘bell’.  PE choices changed this week and our room was transformed into a Yoga studio. Meggan Brummer (Josh Shave’s mum from Wendys) came and instructed nearly 18 children through sun salutations and meditation. It was a lovely morning.

Next week is a short one obviously and there will be a Summerhill Day on Wednesday, so a couple of things to look forward to.

That’s us for this week.

Love, Sarah