Oceans, Guest Speaker and Field Trip

Monday morning we were very lucky to have a secondary teacher, Ms Ethel come and speak to us. She is a very experienced diver and shared with us first hand what it is like exploring the ocean and what you might see. 

Ms Ethel explained to us that when you're diving you need to move slowly through the water so that you don't disturb the animals or use up too much of your oxygen. She also told us the most important rule of all - Never touch anything in the ocean, we can look but we must never touch. Ask your child why we can't touch things in the ocean. 

We also watched a video of Ms Ethel and some of the secondary student going on a dive. The children in Grade One were amazed at what they saw on the dive. A big thanks to Ms Ethel for taking the time to come and speak to us.

Finding Out

In the afternoon we had four centres that we rotated around. We have a great time building on our prior knowledge and recording the things that we have learnt so far.

We are creating a mural for outside our classroom:

We went on an app called 'Bitsboard' and listened to information about the ocean:

We wrote and drew the positive and negative effects humans have on the ocean:

We organised many different items on a table - glass and plastic bottles, plastic bags, polystyrene, cardboard, cans etc. This is what each group did with those items.

Each group had a very unique way of looking at the items and as a group they worked out how they wanted to categories them. I was really impressed by how they organised the items :-)

Field Trip

We had such a great time on our field trip. Aeon supermarket has a lot to explore!!

A very big thank you to all the Mums and Dads who came to help us on the trip. They did a great job guiding the children around the supermarket and helping them to locate all the items on the checklist. I hope you all received your 'thank you' cards!

Mystery Reader

A very big THANK YOU to Roland Ly (Adrien's Dad) for coming to be our mystery reader on Wednesday. After the excitement of our field trip and the party to follow with all the treats we brought from the supermarket, it was nice to have some quiet time listening to a story. 

First Roland read 'Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!' written and illustrated by Mo Williams. It is a hilarious story about a little pigeon with big dreams and he will stop at nothing to drive the bus! Mo Williams is a very talented author and illustrator and one of my absolutely favourite writers of children's books.

The second book that Roland had for us was 'The Pigeon Needs a Bath!' written by Mo Williams. This time however Roland ask if someone else in the class would like to read it. Champa was a risk taker and read the story to the whole class. She did a great! Again it was a hilarious story about a very stinky pigeon who doesn't want to take a bath. But once he finally gets in the bath he realises that he loves it and never wants to get out.



Do you have friends or family visiting over the festive season? Would they like to be a mystery reader? Follow the link to sign them up.....we already have a grandfather visiting us again for the second year running!!

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