What a busy week we just finished at Kingsley! I don't know about the kids but what I do know is that the teachers were definitely ready to recharge their batteries by Friday afternoon!!
Last week so many wonderful things took place at school. Firstly it was Book Week, so we continued discussing the role of authors and illustrators and shared many great books together. We went to the Book Fair and made a wish list of the stories we would like to buy and read and concluded the week with a celebration on Friday at the Book Parade. Lots of us dressed up as our favourite book characters and brought along the story that our characters were from.
Here are the Room 15 teachers and children looking smashing as their favourite book characters!
Last week so many wonderful things took place at school. Firstly it was Book Week, so we continued discussing the role of authors and illustrators and shared many great books together. We went to the Book Fair and made a wish list of the stories we would like to buy and read and concluded the week with a celebration on Friday at the Book Parade. Lots of us dressed up as our favourite book characters and brought along the story that our characters were from.
Here are the Room 15 teachers and children looking smashing as their favourite book characters!
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| From left: Mrs Clarkson as Nicholas Ickle from 'The Wrong Book', Me as the dog from 'If You Give A Dog A Donut', Miss Pitchford as Wally from 'Where's Wally?', Mrs Decristaforio as Dora from 'Dora The Explorer' and Mrs Arnold as 'Odette' from 'Swan Lake'. |
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| Room 15 book characters! |
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| Smurfette & Snow White |
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| Our Super Heroes |
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| Smurfette checks out Mog's cool flying broom |
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| Our very own Cat in a Hat |
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| My Book Week Winner! How uncanny is the resemblance! hehe :) Love ya Mrs D! |
Bouncing Bunnies!
On Thursday, we had 2 very cute bunnies come and visit us for the morning, 'Brittany' and 'Love'. They were very well behaved and seemed to enjoy their cuddles from the very excited pre-primary children.
... Our Butterflies Emerge!
You had to be there to witness the extreme excitement and amazement that the children displayed as they realized the butterflies were about to emerge from their chrysalises. Not only did we get to watch these caterpillars shed their skin as they turned into a chrysalis, now we were able to watch them emerge as beautiful butterflies as well!
Here you can see the chrysalis just before it hatched.
The process was simply captivating - the children oohed and ahhed and watched ecstatically as these small butterflies left their chrysalis' with small, shriveled, wet wings. Within moments, their wings grew slightly bigger as they softly lifted them up and down to dry them.
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| Look how tiny her wings are. |
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| ...A little bit bigger now. |
It only took about 15 minutes for their wings to look smooth and flat, however, we knew they were not ready to fly away, as they did not have the strength to lift themselves upright.
Look how beautiful they are!
The children could not keep their eyes off the butterflies, so what better time to start our new butterfly observations.
Miss Pitchford guided the children as they made their observations, prompting discussion about what they saw and how they would create their butterfly diagrams. The children were very observant and decided they would only need a few colours for their pictures.
You can see how carefully the children are looking at the butterflies as they draw their pictures. They really did do an amazing job!
As always, the children have learned so much this week but I have to say, becoming parents to 3 beautiful butterflies, and knowing there are still more on the way, was definitely the highlight of the week for me!! How exciting!
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