Prep W enjoys Book Day!
The Preps had a marvellous day dressing up as their favourite book characters, reading this years short listed books and enjoying a ‘Super Duper’ incursion.
Here are some photos from throughout the day:
Celebrating ‘100 Days Of Prep!’
The Preps have been at school for 100 days! Can you believe it?
We held an amazing assembly to celebrate this wonderful day.
Here we are getting ready before the assembly, waiting for the whole school and all the families to arrive.
We started off the assembly singing some songs for everyone. We love singing!
Then each Prep student gave a speech about what they have learnt and what they have enjoyed about school so far. What a wonderful effort for each Prep to bravely speak in front of everyone!
After the assembly we took some class snaps and photos with our buddies.
Thanks to everyone for coming along and celebrating along with the Preps!
Read More »Minions invade the School Concert!
Well done to the 2017 Preps at their first school concert!
The danced their hearts out to ‘Happy’ and had the crowd clapping along.
All the students did a wonderful job and they already can’t wait until next years concert!
SCIENCEWORKS with Prep W!
The Preps had a fantastic time on their visit to Scienceworks! In class we have been learning a lot about forces, push and pull, gravity and what things are made of.
We explored all the different areas and had a great time with all the hands on exhibits!
Thanks to Mrs S and our parent helpers Meg, Phuong & Andrew for helping us have a great time.
Check out some of the photos below:
We can’t wait for our next excursion!
Read More »Capacity with Prep W!
The Preps have been learning all about capacity this week.
We’ve been enjoying lots of hands on activities, comparing the capacity of different containers and estimating the amount that they would hold.
Here we are predicting which one would hold more, out of two containers.
Then we measured to check:
We tried our best to make our measurements accurate by filling one container all the way to the top.
Then we poured from one container to another to check.
The next day, we tried different activities such as ordering containers from holds least to holds most.
Then we filled containers to different levels such as – Full, Half Full, Half Empty, Nearly Full, Nearly Empty and Empty.
Then we measured using rice, sand and pasta to fill larger containers. First we estimated (a sensible guess!) how many spoonful’s or cupful’s it would take to fill the larger container. Then we checked:
We’ve had a great week and now we know a lot more about capacity!
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Making Patterns with Prep W!
This week Prep W have been learning about patterns!
We made towers of blocks in 2 different colours, and then went to 3 and 4. We even tried making patterns using 5 or 6 different colours!
After our coloured block patterns, we made shape patterns!
Prep W Makes The Letter M!
Today Prep W were learning about the letter Mm!
The Preps were challenged to make groups of 4 and work out a way to make the letter Mm using all four bodies in the group.
We did MMMMMMMAGNIFICENTLY well!
Don’t we look MMMMMMMARVELOUS!
Prep Swimming!
The Preps have been enjoying their daily swimming lessons!
The intensive 2 week program has seen the Preps grow in confidence in the water and they cannot wait until water slide day!
Prep A & W & the Lambs!
Prep A & Prep W were incredibly lucky to have a visit from some special guests during the week.
We have been learning all about the weather in Term 4, and Minnie’s grandparents, Farmer Philip & Julie, payed us a visit to talk about why weather is so important to farmers.
They drove down from the country with a mother sheep and her 2 two week old twin lambs!
Farmer Philip & Farmer Julie brought the lambs in to the hall for us to look at.
Minnie and Archie had a turn at walking them around so the Preps could see them and pat them!
Then Farmer Philip answered all the Preps questions about farming, the weather and the lambs.
Ms Woodhouse even got to have a cuddle!
Belle Vue Primary would like to say a big thank-you to Farmer Philip & Farmer Julie for helping us to learn some more about the weather and for bringing along some of your farm animals. We loved it!
Read More »Responsible Pet Ownership
The Preps were lucky enough to have visit from Elke and her dog Oskar, who came in and taught us how to be safe around unfamiliar animals.
When we see an angry dog we should:
- Stand still
- Put our hands by our sides
- Be as quiet as a mouse
- Look at the ground.
Here we are practicing:
Then we did role playing, acting out different scenarios for when we meet unfamiliar dogs:
When we see a dog that looks friendly and we would like to pat it, these are the steps we should take:
- Walk up and stop in front of the dog and it’s owner (not too close)
- Ask the owner if it’s ok to pat their dog
- If they say yes, walk to the dog slowly
- Close your hand into a fist and let the dog sniff your hand
- Walk to the side of the dog, and have a pat!
Here are a lucky couple of Preps who got to pat Oskar:
Thank-you to Elke, Oskar and the Responsible Pet Ownership program.
We will definitely put these skills to good use!
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