Hello P2B families!

Here are the learning highlights of the week from the Red Table:

Ollie really enjoyed going on a bug hunt in the woodlands and looking at them under a magnifying glass.  The class listened to a story from the Tweenies who went bug hunting, so they decided they wanted to go bug hunting too!  Up to the woods we went and searched under rocks and logs and under the wet leaves.  We found slugs, spiders, earwigs among others.  Mrs Devlin caught some (reluctantly) and if we chose to, examined them more closely.

Ishann loved being chosen for this week’s Lead Learner!  He has the important job of setting a target for the class to work on (something we could improve upon) of which Ishaan and his co-Lead Leader chose, ‘listening better on the carpet’.  Lead Learners also tell visitors what we are learning and they help give out the dinner tickets – a very responsible set of tasks!

Maya said the favourite part of her week was the Spanish lesson where we learned how to respond to the register in the mornings.  If we are present, then we say ‘Presente’ and if someone is off, we say ‘Ausente’.  One way we remember how to say ‘Ausente’ is by starting of saying ‘aaawwwwwhhhhhh’ because we are sad that person is not with us today, then we finish with ‘sente’.

Musa liked playing with the marble run this week during ‘Choosing our own Learning’ time.  He demonstrated super creativity in his construction!  Well done Musa!

Mrs Devlin’s highlight this week was the response the children had to a story we read about a whale that had died due to pollution.  This lesson grew arms and legs as the children endeavoured to make posters to put around the school to remind everyone to recycle.  They did super teamwork as they worked in teams.  We practised folding a crisp packet so it is less likely to be carried in the wind and end up in our oceans.  We also looked at some images of landfill sites and beaches filled with rubbish people did not take home and plastic bottles floating in the sea.  We saw a turtle about to eat a plastic bag and we saw a dead whale lying on a beach.  All very sad and all very preventable.  P2B will be helping to take care of God’s beautiful world!

Congratulations to Amariah-Grace, our Hot Chocolate award winner this week!