We did it!!!!

The Monday Toyoshina kinder class have been practicing writing our names for a couple of months now.

We started off writing holding the pencil together.

Then we traced over dotted lines.

And now?

Now we can all write our names copying from the whiteboard.

Yeah!!!

fish!

We have been doing a fish theme and we made some great fish pictures:

The kinder class used their knowledge of shapes and colours to ask for the pieces of paper they wanted and made these posters.

Then we chose an emotion for each fish and drew faces.  Surprised and happy fish were the most popular by a long shot!

In the grade 2-3 class we read the book 'Hooray for fish!' which has lots of unusual fish like peacock fish and strawberry and pineapple fish and then invented our own fish and wrote a sentence describing them:

Definitely something fishy going on around here!

the longest train ever!

While we were waiting for class to start we made a big castle with all the circle blocks.  Then we decided that we needed some way to get to the castle so we started making a train.

We counted the blocks until we lost count then we made sections of all one colour or shape (we have square blocks and rectangular blocks.)

When we finished making our train we tried to push it:  

'Push, push, push-

oh no!'

Our train was too long and it broke.

Lucky we took a picture before we got started, hey?

Happy Valentine's Day

The kinder kids in Toyoshina have been learning about Valentine's Day.

We sorted hearts by size and colour.

We chose the hearts we liked and counted them.

We asked for more and swapped any we didn't need.

And then we made pictures with our hearts.

Phewwww- that was a lot of work for one lesson but we had some great pictures to show our mums and dads!

We really did have fun but we're a bit shy in front of the camera.