Sarah’s Class Week 6 Term 1

Hi everyone,

Firstly, massive thanks to Steve, Anj, Jo, Bianca, Anne & Abby for coming with us to Kimbriki on Tuesday. Although the weather was drizzly and grey we had a great day looking at and learning more about recycling and worm farms. It’s a wonderful site and the educators who talked to us were friendly and extremely interesting and engaging. The children answered a lot of questions from their previous knowledge and learnt a lot of new things too. We wrapped up this day back in the classroom revising what had been presented and sharing what we learnt and liked about the visit.

With our worm farms, at school, well and truly ALIVE we discovered a bit more about these creatures and found out that the largest worm grows to about 3 metres long! The childrens recycling projects are coming along and I have been impressed with how well the small groups have been working together. On this topic, and using plastic bottles, we started making little hanging planters for the fence outside our classroom windows. The bottles were decorated and most of the children managed to fill them with soil and their little plants. It will be nice to watch the planters grow!

Swimming on Wednesday we concentrated on breastroke arms and fast kicking while practicing our freestyle and backstroke. The children’s endurance to swim up and back in the 25 metre pool is definately growing. We focused on Fact Families for our Maths this week and recognised the relationship between addition and subtraction using 3 numbers.

And that’s another week!

Love, Sarah