The Brothers Quibble from Sue Dowling on Vimeo.
The book chosen for National Simultaneous Storytime this year was 'The Brothers Quibble' by Aaron Blabey. National Simultaneous Storytime is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association. Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator is read in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country. KC really enjoyed this year's book and it led to some great discussion about how even though your brother or sister may annoy you sometimes, you love them no matter what!
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As you know, we have been growing wheat in KC. We enjoyed this immensely and after looking at Vincent van Gogh's painting 'Wheat Field With Crows' we were inspired. We used oil pastel crayons to create the texture of the wheat field and a night sky. We used white to create a glowing moon and we also tried to create perspective with the changing size of our dirt road winding through the wheat field.
Toby had a great weekend with Grug. This is what Grug got up to:
A big thankyou to Toby and his family for looking after Grug so well and taking some great photos. Grug really loved playing with Didge the dog. Grug's weekend adventure with Toby has been made into a special book and poster in our classroom and it can also be viewed here by KC parents.
We continued to investigate today which 3D objects could roll, slide and stack. We used a ramp to check rolling and sliding with marbles, cubes, cylinders and cones. We also built some great structures with blocks that could stack on top of each other.
We used the Chatterpix app on the iPad to put together what we have learnt so far.
Can you find some 3D objects that can roll, slide and stack at home? 3D Objects from Sue Dowling on Vimeo. Add some water, some light, some warmth and some tender, loving care . . . KC's wheat has grown! Two weeks later, long green stalks of wheat can now be seen growing in our cups. The Little Red Hen was very impressed and said thankyou to KC for helping her grow some wheat. After carefully planting our wheat in cotton wool, our helpers of the day have had the job of watering our wheat every day. Please have a look at our photos below, because KC have taken their wheat home to plant a wheat field in their backyard!!!!
KC have been learning how to read the time (to the hour) on an analog clock, as well as on a digital clock. We have been using the word 'o'clock' and have been learning where the hands are on an analog clock when reading hour time. We made a human clock today to help us remember where the hands go. We had lots of fun!
We also enjoyed watching Nellie teach Ned how to tell the time.
KC put on their thinking caps today - Mrs Dowling's son needed some help with a problem. He sometimes goes to the gym after work and gets very hot and super thirsty. He wants to choose a glass that will give him the largest amount of water in one go to quench his thirst. Here are the glasses he can choose from the kitchen cupboard. Just about everyone in KC estimated that the taller glass on the right would hold the most water. Good reasons were given such as it's taller, it's longer and it's bigger. One student commented that the middle glass was very fat and could hold a lot of water too (good thinking Kobe). So, how did we work out which glass had the greater capacity? Some students suggested we use our mini measuring cups that we used last week and see how many cups the glasses would hold. A very good idea! Some children suggested we fill the tall glass with water and then pour the water into the 'fat' glass and see if all the water would fill it. (They thought it would overflow.) We tried this and what did we discover? The middle glass did not overflow, in fact there was still some room (space) for more water. The middle glass could hold the most water after all! It made us realise that even though a container might be taller - a shorter, wider container may still have more space to hold more. What did we learn? Always be brave to make an estimate, then be ready to find a way to check our guess by measuring. Mrs Dowling's son is very happy now and says thankyou KC.
Today in Maths we started looking at some 3D objects in our classroom and also objects from home we use every day. We thought we could describe 3D objects as "fat" not flat like 2D shapes. We had some wooden and foam blocks in our classroom that we could look at very closely and have some 'hands on' fun with. We discovered they were different shapes, some were pointy, some were round, some had flat surfaces and some had curved surfaces. We could sort these objects into groups using these features. We had fun seeing which objects could roll or slide down a ramp and which objects could do both. We also had fun working out what objects we could stack easily. Here we are in action and we found that we could easily stack the objects with flat surfaces on their flat surface. Mia had a great weekend with Grug. This is what Grug got up to:
A big thankyou to Mia and her family for looking after Grug so well and taking some great photos. It was Grug's first birthday party and he was very excited! Grug's weekend adventure with Mia has been made into a special book and poster in our classroom, so please pop in to have a look. We are super busy every day in our Literacy time. Here are a few pics of us using our headphones while on the computers and iPads. It means we don't disturb our friends who are working on other activities. |
About UsKC is a class of 22 enthusiastic children excited to be in Kindergarten at Helensburgh PS in 2015. Our teachers are Mrs Mel Cook and Mrs Sue Dowling and our school is in NSW, Australia. Please subscribe to our blog and receive an email whenever a new post is made. Please feed our beautiful rainbow fish.
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