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We were very lucky to have members of the Hobart Hurricanes Cricket team come and lead some workshops with us yesterday.
Here are some things our students had to say afterwards…
“We got to bounce the Cricket ball and put it under our chin. It was really fun.” (Isabella)
“The best thing was throwing the ball and catching it.” (Lauchie)
“I liked throwing up the ball and catching it.” (Reuben K)
“Getting the signatures was pretty cool.” (Natasha)
“Meeting the players was an excellent experience.” (Poppy)
“I love the autographs. I've stuck them on my wall at home and the magnet is on our fridge.” (Eddie)
Book Week Fair/Parade
Important days and times for Book Week:
Monday 21st to Friday 25th - Parents/Carers are invited to view books at the fair with their child/children from 8.20 - 9am.
Tuesday - 9am - Book Character Parade.
Book Fair open to parents from 10am to 11.30am.
We look forward to seeing parents, carers, children and staff in their book character outfits.
Our next Sharing Assembly is coming up on Friday 25 August at 2:00pm in the hall.
All families are invited to come along and celebrate our learning.
Fullname: Katherine Anne Dewhurst
Birth date: 21st January
Favourite colour: Blue
People in your family: Me, my Husband, 3 children and Kobe the dog
Hobbies: Baking and sport
What's one thing about you people might not know?
I have done Point to Pinnacle 2 times
What was your dream job as a child?
Marine Biologist
If you could have anything for lunch, what would it be?
Sushi
What's the best piece of advice you have ever been given?
Be kind even when people aren't watching.
Interviews
Casey and Poppy
We are getting excited about our upcoming disco on Friday 1stSeptember 5pm to 7 pm. Don't forget to return your RSVP and entry fee to the office!! We are also asking for donations of supplies to help cook the treats that will be sold on the night. This can include, flour, butter, eggs, choc chips/smarties to go in muffins and biscuits. Or if you'd like to volunteer to help on the night, please contact Megan Perkins through the Glen Huon Primary Facebook page. Thank you for your support!!!
The Kinder children have been on an amazing inquiry journey for the past few weeks. We started by looking at a bakery and discussing what we might find in a bakery. This has led us down an interesting journey around bakeries and now following some incredible observations and questions from the children. Currently we are engaged in some interesting experiments about yeast, as well as some other experiments exploring evaporation – because of course that is where you would end up after starting your inquiry about a bakery (with a view to investigating the concept of community, we will circle back eventually). We have been documenting our learning on a Learning Wall. This is an ever changing, living document that is messy, transient and provides us with a record of our learning and thinking, something to refer back to, and helps plan next steps. It also helps us to recall our thinking and see how our thinking has changed. To help us with these things, we have introduced more thinking routines which we use daily in Kinder. We have also learned about our brain neurons lighting up as we make new connections in our learning – so often you will hear children saying ‘I reckon my brain is lighting up now!’ as they discover something new. Metacognition for Kindergarteners – it sure has my brain lighting up! Suffice to say, Kindergarten is buzzing and you’re welcome to come and have a look at our learning wall sometime.
Here is a selection of questions and learning generated by the inquiry that are helping us to research and learn together. Remember, these children are 4 and 5 years of age and Iv'e written down exactly as they said them, pretty amazing!
“Is water alive?”
“I learned how the yeast eats the sugar!”
“Does yeast eat sugar all day, or does it eventually stop?”
“How does the yeast wake up if it is just food?”
“Yeast is alive?! Yeast must be an animal! Alive means it walks and talks.”
“How does yeast grow?”
“Where did the water go? I think it got soaked up in the ingredients.”
This is a small selection… we are working on doing some research and answering as many as we can.
Grade 2/3/4 are having weekly Peaceful Classroom sessions with Nurse Emma this term.
Peaceful Classrooms includes simple, effective and proven exercises to help students to stay calm, relax, focus and learn more effectively during the day. It also helps students to build their emotional resilience so they are better equipped to deal with the day to day stresses that life brings them.
Last week, we learnt about what mindfulness is and focused on Mindful Belly Breathing. Here is the script for that if you would like to practice it at home with your child.
This week we had fun completing Thich Nhat Hanh’s mindful movements. Here is the link for that mindful meditation. https://youtu.be/E-gEO12BVNU
Meditations can also be found on the Peaceful Kids website. Meditations (peacefulkids.com.au)
