Frogsplorations...

 

So many explorations! Never enough time!

 

 Here is a little photo journey of some of our pre-primary explorations over the last few weeks... I hope you enjoy it.

 

 Salt-dough Frogs, Lily Pads & Father's Day Frog Pictures

We used a range of informational texts to help us design our frogs.

 

Our finished frogs! Aren't they gorgeous!?!

 

You might think our frog pictures were missing legs... and you'd be right, however, we left them off on purpose. Later we cut, folded and concertinaed our own frog legs and stuck them onto our frog's bodies. Then we glued our finished frogs onto the front of our very own Father's Day cards. They looked Amazing and each one was individually made by the kids :)

You can see some of the gorgeous cards here. And if you're wondering what the gift is that our cards are attached to... It's our frogs of course! What a great pressie for our dads! 

The frog fun never ends...

 Below you can check us out playing one of our word games during 'Word Work'.

 

 

For this game we had to flip picture cards with cvc (consonant-vowel-consonant) words and find them on our activity page. We worked together to hear each sound in the word and if we had the matching picture on our activity sheet, we carefully spelled the word under the correct picture.



You can see us using our 'robot arms' to segment each sound as we break the word up.



 

We then blend those sounds back together as we write the word.

 

We always talk and share our thoughts as we work with our friends.
 

 

We love helping each other learn when we get stuck and are also learning to be good leaders.



Can you see that beautiful smile saying ..."Yep, I'm learning how to write!"

 

What clever little frogs we have in Room 15!

 

An update on our butterflies and the wee pollywogs...

Did you know a pollywog is just another name for a tadpole?  :)

 





 

Here you can see them soon after hatching from their eggs.
They are feeding off the jelly eggs they emerged from.



 

Setting our last monarch butterfly free.

 

  

 Look very carefully at HIM... All of the other butterflies we had were girls. We know this one is a male because of the two little black spots you can see on his wings just next to his abdomen. These are like scent glands, tiny scales that emit a chemical during courtship.

 

How amazing is Mother Nature!? ... and what better way for children to learn and explore their world, than with real life experiences!

 

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Be sure to come back soon to find out all about our cool Zoo trip!

 

Sports Day

 

Wow! I think the last two weeks flew by as fast as the pre-primary kids on sports day!!

Sorry it's taken so long to keep you all updated with what's been happening around here but boy have we been busy!! We are super hard workers down here in Room 15 you know! :)

 

Firstly, check out some of the pictures of us participating in the whole school faction carnival...

 

Eagerly waiting for our turn to race.

Take your marks, get set, GO!

 

I hope you didn't blink! You might have missed it they were so super speedy!!

 

Racing at the faction carnival is always a fun event for the kids. They were all great sports and finished their races with BIG smiles on their faces, congratulating each other on their efforts. We had been training and practicing our running technique for a few weeks before the big day along with refining our amazing leopard crawling and hurdle jumping skills for our obstacle course event, which was also a big hit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What winners!