Thank you to all of our students and their parents for going to such great efforts to help us celebrate Book Week today. There were some very creative costumes and it was lovely to reflect upon how powerful the written word is to us, and how wonderful our lives are with stories in them.
What a perfect day we had for our local area excursion on Friday. The children were beyond excited when they boarded the bus and stayed enthused throughout the entire day. We started with a visit to the canoe tree, taking note of the lovely elipse shape of the cutting. We then moved on to take a walk along the Tomago river spotting mangroves, taking a close look at public and private jetties and admiring the fancy houses. We met Bernadette from the Council at the boat ramp where we enjoyed our crunch and sip break whilst listening to Bernadette talk about cormorants, sooty oyster catchers, seagulls, sting rays, pelicans, seaweed and features of our local environment. Did you know that 2 out of every 3 breaths we take contain oxygen provided by our oceans? We made our way along the rocks and up the steps to the anchor, where we were fortunate to see a large pod of dolphins at play. From here we made our way along the headland, looking out to Broulee island and watching the waterways change from river to ocean to creek. We carefully made our way down the tree-root section and played spot the difference with old photographs of the bridge at Candalagan Creek. Lunch on the soft, lush grass near the playground was well received. Jordan read the sign for us about the ship wreck of the Rover, which helps us to understand where our school house names come from. A short play in the sand under a whispy skyline was great fun before our walk back to school. What a wonderful day of experiences and learning in our beautiful outdoor classroom! Lego and Duplo are wonderful tools for learning within our classrooms. Not only can they be used for countless ways of problem solving and creativity, but they can be used to learn and help reinforce specific concepts. This week, our Kindergarten students looked at different flags of the world to isolate how fractions can be shown in different ways - horizontally, vertically, diagonally and even half-swirls. They then used Duplo to demonstrate their understandings of fractions. They were given cards with fractions on them and a colour code, and proceeded to make flags representing the fractions given. Take a look at some of the wonderful thinking that went into this challenge below. |
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