Ms Kelly's Class: Another great week!

We have had another very busy week in KG. We have been very lucky to have Ms Ashley come to our class to start teaching us all about the "Gecko Wheel." We watched a very cool clip about what it means to be a friend and how it makes you feel. We all really enjoyed it. We also drew pictures inside a body shape of what it means to be a good friend and then we shared them together.

Here we are talking about how to be a good friend.

Drawing pictures of how to be a good friend.

Busy at work.

Sharing our pictures together.

We were all being really good friends by listening to each other.

Concentrating on what our friend is saying.

Maths

We have also been busy learning about gathering data and how to put that information onto graphs. We did lots of surveys in our class. We found out what kind of pets we have, what is our favourite flavour of ice cream, how many scoops of ice cream we can eat and the colour of our clothes that we were wearing. We first made a Tally Chart to gather the information and we then graphed this information on a bar graph. It was fun.

We also managed to get ourselves into order from the tallest in the class to the shortest in the class.

We have also been doing a lot of counting. We have been counting all the way to 100! We have also been learning to count in 2s, 5s and 10s. We have been finding numbers all around our classroom and practising writing numbers and showing the value of the number with blocks and counters. It was really fun working as a group to make the numbers 1 - 10 out of play dough, but it was a little bit tricky when we had to try and find really big numbers on the 1 - 100 chart.

Language

This week we have been concentrating on the letters s, a and t. We have been practising writing them, saying the letter sounds and finding things in the classroom that start with these letters. We have also been practising writing our names. We made them out of play dough which was really fun.

PE & Swimming

We have so much fun in PE and Swimming time. Look at us swimming over and under the "shark cages" and running around and under the parachute.

Under

Over

Shark cage

From one end to the other.

Sharing our friend pictures.

Thanks so much to everyone who sent in a photo with your child or emailed me with one. The children had a great time sharing them with everyone in the class. It was really nice to listen to the stories about the friends in the pictures and what makes them such good friends.