We started the week by taking a walk outside to be nature detectives and look for signs of autumn. We looked at the colour of the leaves, identified which type of trees were changing colour first and even saw a squirrel jumping from tree to tree! Photos by Isabella, Amber and Macaulay.

On Tuesday we had a virtual assembly which we watched from our classroom. We found out more about the school values and looked closely at the Kingsland badge.

In health and wellbeing we’re continuing to talk lots about being a good friend. We drew around Isabelle, coloured our person in and then labelled it with what we think a good friend does.

We’re also continuing to talk about whether different scenarios are a big deal or a little deal. We agreed that losing our pencil is a little deal, but falling off our bike and banging our head is a bigger deal!

In literacy this week we’ve done lots of writing. We drew a picture of a pet (either ours or someone else’s), labelled the picture and then used it as a plan to do a longer piece of writing. We’re also doing a great job with our reading. We read to the teacher, to ourselves and to our reading partners.

In numeracy this week we’ve enjoyed doing some data handling. We asked the class whether they preferred dogs or cats, pizza or chips and apples or bananas and discussed how to present this information. We then did our own mini surveys and shared our results.

We’re also reading lots of picturebooks for a very special role – more to follow next week.