family activities

Congratulations to Kana for receiving the star of the week certificate. She has really made a great effort to listen and participate in activities this week! Well done Kana!

 The class are still very excited about our pet caterpillars so we have been observing their amazing metamorphosis and also continuing our family theme with lots of songs and activities to reinforce vocabulary and also time to talk about our own personal families. and routines.
 We started the week with a "Guess Who's Missing?"game which the class got good at very quickly!

 We discovered that another butterfly had hatched out over the weekend which delighted everyone, especially MinMin!

We did a little imaginative acting...

 We enjoyed pretending to be caterpillars munching on our blanket leaves.

We wrapped ourselves into cocoons... 

And then emerged as beautiful butterflies!

 And then we set our butterfly free to look for nectar!

 We squeezed out blobs of our favourite colours to create some wonderful symmetrical butterfly prints.

 

  And did lots of free painting..

 We are getting very familiar with the story of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and most of the group were able to show me what the caterpillar ate next in our sequencing activity.They enjoyed threading the "caterpillar" through the holes in the fruit although it was a bit challenging for some little fingers!

SunLee even made a cocoon with his caterpillar when he was finished eating!

  So many insects escaped in our playdough area!

Throughout the week we have been sharing ideas about the things we do together with our families. Many of the class said they go shopping together so we set up our own play shop and took turns being the customers and cashiers. The class loved this activity although I think we need to work on money management - the main objective seemed to be who could fit the most stuff in their grocery bag! It was really great to see lots of sharing and co-operation happening here!

We talked about some other jobs that our families do around the house and things we can help out with.It turns out that my class are a very helpful and independent bunch!  They were great at washing the dishes and bathing and dressing the babies. A few of the class had a go at ironing and even washing and hanging up some of the clothes- although that wasn't exactly a planned activity! They really took the initiative here so I'm hoping some of them will be helping out with these jobs at home too!

 

Kana enjoyed making caterpillar patterns using circles.

 SunLee wanted all his parking spaces numbered!

  We made a graph of the boys and girls in our class using our paper dolls- Thanks for your effort and creativity in making them. Everyone is beginning to recognise each other's now.

 There was a definite birthday cake theme going on in the playdough area...

 Some great sharing and turn-taking happening in the classroom now!