Police Visit

Today we had a visit from First Constable Ben and his police car.  We were so excited to see a police car.  We  got to see the lights flashing and hear the siren but it was very soft.  We looked inside the car and saw lots of buttons.  Daniel got to turn the lights off.

In the classroom we asked Ben lots of questions about being a police officer. Police officers help to keep us safe.  If we get lost we can ask a police officer for help.  It says POLICE on the special uniform they wear.  We can call 000 for help.  There are boy and girl police officers and when we grow up some children from Prep H might be police officers.

Thanks Ben!

Visualising

Last week we used the iPads in Reading and Writing Workshop.  Our reading strategy is visualising and we are learning about how good readers make a movie in their heads while they are reading.  We used the book The Tiny Seed to practice visualising and then we drew a picture of what we saw in our minds using the app Doodle Buddy.  We took a screen shot of the picture to share on our blog.
                               
                          
                       

The Farm

We went to the farm.  It was a rainy day.  We saw lots of animals.  Some animals we saw were fluffy like the bunny rabbits, gunia pigs and sheep.  We saw a pig.  The pig was rolling in the mud.  We saw piglets too.  We watched a video about how cows give us milk.  We went on a train and it took us to the duck pond.  We fed the ducks bread.  We said thank you to Farmer Daniel for showing us around the farm.  We were very lucky to have so many Mums come and help on the excursion too.  We had lots of fun!

We have so much fun working with our buddies in 6R.  Every week we look forward to this most and always cheer in the morning when we know our buddies are coming.  We have done so much with our buddies this year.  We made fire trucks when learning about the letter F. Our trucks had ladders, windows, bells and horns.

We made Mothers Day cards for our Mums.

 

 We made kites when learning about the letter K and we flew these on the oval.

 

We have beeen learning the days of the week.  We use this song to help us remember them in order.  It's fun to sing!  Click on the link below to listen to the song at home.


Days of the Week song

Recentely we started using the iPads in the classroom.  The children were incredibly excited to use these devices.  Miss Hull was very impressed by the skills the children have in using them and the little prompting they needed to work the device.  We used an app called Spelling Bug where the children heard a word and had to put the letters in the correct order.  We also took video of our retells of the story 'Dan and the Parrot'.