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Preschool Weekly Bulletin – 3 September
Zoom lessons
Penguins
At the beginning of the week the Penguin’s tested out their colour knowledge. We had a scavenger hunt around our rooms to see if we could find things that matched Miss Dine’s colour card. We also tried to find things that were opposites i.e. big and small or loud and quiet.
The Penguin’s got creative this week and made lots of different things such as playdough, a rice chute, ice paint, a road for our cars, and a bubble maker. At school most of our learning is done by exploring through play so most of our zoom lessons are about making things we can all play with together. In the picture you can see our rice chute made with boxes and tubes, we tipped our rainbow rice we made last week in and watched it fly out the bottom of the tube!
We also got to sing Happy Birthday to James while he virtually blew out his birthday candles!
Maui
For our letter for this week (C), the Mauis made a cat mask, went on a colour hunt and did a colour walking experiment. We discovered how to mix colours to make new ones. Using only colours red, yellow and blue, we were able to make purple, green and orange! We enjoyed counting all the way up to 20 and down again to 0 during mat time.
The Maui children also did their Reading Programme this week, looking at the story ‘The lost teddy’. We read our poem together and looked for the letter c in it. We found five c’s! We found out that three of our Maui tamariki have a C in their name: Cooper, Cheata and Isaac. To end the week, we baked some delicious chocolate chip bookies and did a colourful rain cloud experiment. We’re looking forward to more fun experiments and activities next week!
Kea
What better way to start our C week than a celebration. On Monday we made banana cake in a cup and creative colourful crowns and celebrated our friend Joanna’s 4th birthday! In keeping with our curriculum focus on food and nutrition we made “very healthy caterpillars” with grapes, bananas, carrots,celery and raisins. We also made cat face sandwiches, apple cars and traced ‘C’ with crackers. Making puffy paint and painting caterpillars was so much fun.
For stories we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Mixed Up Chameleon, The Very Quiet Cricket and one of our favorite preschool books, Fat Cat And Baby Bird. For mathematics we learned about the shapes cone,cube and circle. We looked at coins of Aotearoa/New Zealand (the land of the long white cloud) and other countries. What better way to end the week than a crazy hair day and a quacking duck in a cup science experiment!
Kotare
Our letter of the week discussion began with one of our favourite stories The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We have drawn pictures of all the things in the book that started with C, cherry pie, chocolate cake, cupcake, cheese, ice cream for our news activity. Our reading book this week was called ‘Cave Cat’.
Later on in the week, we learnt some things about CHILDREN of the world. We have enjoyed looking at our globes and maps to find the COUNTRIES that begin with C. We discussed how life is very different for some children in other countries depending on where they live, even in the countries where some of their families originate from. In the Zoom session pictured above we made children of the world as an art activity and decorated them to represent some of our friends’ different ethnicities in the class.
Final word from Ms Bayliss
Have a wonderful weekend everyone, and enjoy Father’s Day on Sunday – I hope all the dads get lots of treats and special attention from their little people!
See you next week.
Ngā mihi
Lucy Bayliss
Head of Preschool
