Sarah’s Class Week 8 Term 2

What an amazing experience the children have had this week making lanterns. It always astounds me how the vision comes together. Working alongside Crafty’s highly skilled artists, apprentices and friends the children created a Loch Ness Monster, reinvigorated the dragon from a few years ago and made their own lantern, as a part of our “Art week”. In cross age/stage groups we all worked and collaborated together, cutting, weaving & taping bamboo to make the frames then carefully glued the paper over the bamboo to create the sculpture. The children were in awe and full of excitement as the monster made it out from the classroom space to the deck to take on ‘Life’. On Friday, we all took to paint the lanterns and creatures to finish off – in preparation of our Tuesday night social down at Tambourine Bay.

So not much else transpired this week. We had music with Gemma on Monday and began another Soundwaves unit focusing on the sound ‘igh’, i_e, ie. The children did some story writing and we listened to an episode of “Grow Your Mind” which talked about FRIENDSHIPS and how sometimes they can be tricky to navigate. All Pip’s were completed on Friday too and will be presented next week on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings starting from 9:30 am. You are welcome to come so check with your child which day they are timetabled or send me a message and I can let you know.  We continue to read our book “Wylah – the Koori Warrior” each afternoon which the group are really engaged in listening to.

Hopefully, I will see you all at the social on Tuesday night to revel in the lighting of the lanterns.

Love, Sarah