The first 2 weeks...

It has been wonderful to see the children's happy faces as they arrive each morning. MZa has been busy learning routines, establishing relationships with their teachers, and making friends. Please look out for the class photo list coming home in blue folders soon, which will help your child with remembering his/her new friends' names.

               Thank you to all parents who met with me for Student /                                  Teacher conferences. It was great to be able to chat with you.

 

                                                                                 

‘The World.’ – our K1 Meta-Project…

MZa has been thinking about 2 questions over the past couple of weeks…What does ‘world’ mean?  and  What is your world? The children have shared many interesting thoughts and ideas…

What does ‘world’ mean? 

·            “The whole city where people live.”    

·            “Sharks.”

·            “The whole earth.”

·            “Knights.”

·            “Countries with trees, sea, beach.”

·            “Earth, and all the different countries on the sides of the earth.”

·             “Zebras.”

·            “Unicorns.”

·            “Lion and tiger.”

·            “The moon and space around it.”

·            “Butterfly.”

·            “Snakes.”

It seems as though MZa are very interested in animals!

In the following weeks, we will be exploring what we already know about animals of the world, what else we would really like to know about them, and how we can find out!

Some responses to the second question “What is your world?” were…

·             “All the countries.”

·            “The sky and grass and people.”

·            “The whole school.”

·            “Mum and Dad inside the world, and Aunty.”

·            “Where I do things.”

Thank you to everyone who has filled in with their child, and returned, the sheet sent home which poses the question above. I have enjoyed reading the responses, and am looking forward to working with the children to explore their interests.

Please keep checking in with our class blog, to see our children researching, building on existing ideas, and developing further understandings about the world.