Sharing our Learning!

This week was a huge success for Preschool. A real opportunity for them to celebrate their learning and their many achievements together with you during the Student Led Conferences! They did such a wonderful job showcasing their progress and taking ownership for all the wonderful skills and work they have completed this year.

Preschool has spent the past two weeks continuing their inquiry on Transportation, looking at air, water and land transportation and produced paintings to consolidate their knowledge on these various transportation types.

Preschool explored road signs and symbols by taking a closer look at those around Rokko Island. They made excellent conclusions and practised expressing their thoughts in full sentences. They then used their their findings to come up with their own signs and symbols.

From looking at signs and symbols Preschool learnt about boats and how they manage to stay afloat. They made predictions about whether different objects float or sink and then had to test their predictions like true scientists. There were some surprises especially regarding ice cubes and why they don't sink!

After such a busy year, Preschool is looking forward to one more week in Preschool before starting their well deserved summer break. The classroom is starting to be packed up and with that the year is slowly coming to an end!

Reminders 

• To celebrate their successful cooking this year, Preschool will be preparing their own lunch on Wednesday, we will be making and eating Pizza as a class on Wednesday. I will provide tomato sauce and cheese as toppings. Any other additional toppings need to be sent in with your child. 
• End of year Party on Friday 

I wish you all a great last week of school. 

Sabina Michelotti

Cars, Trains, Buses, Airplanes and More

These past two weeks have been a whirl of getting more familiar with the new Unit about transportation. Finishing off their summatives on Life-Cycles, Preschool impressed with their patience when it came to using needle and thread. Their mobiles hang proudly in the classroom, ready to be shared with you during the Student-Led Conferences.

Our unit on transportation has been the perfect opportunity for Preschool to explore maps in Maths. They are very knowledgeable when it comes to maps:

• I know that some pirates need to look everywhere to find the treasure and they use a map.
• People want to go home but it’s and there is a tsunami, so they need a map to find their home.
• Some guys use a map to see if the Earth is a circle or a square. Japan is an island. 
• Japan is smaller than Brazil. Brazil is very big.
• The biggest country ever is Russia.
• Maps tell you where to go. There are lots of kinds of maps.
• Different types of maps: place maps, treasure maps, Earth maps

They have familiarised themselves with giving directions, Preschool could be seen wandering the school corridors giving directions; right at the stairs, straight to the window, three jumps to the left etc.

They were able to use mapping tools on the computer, producing indoor and outdoor maps.

Preschool identified that there a many different means of transportation with people using different types depending on the distance they are travelling. This brought Preschool to exploring the different means of transportation seen on Rokko Island. They used their observational skills to record the various transport types and quantified them back in the classroom. They concluded that there are a lot of cars, people walking and bicycles on Rokko Island! 

The students also had a lot of fun in Art, producing different transportation types! 

 

As the school year is coming to an end, with only three weeks left of school, Preschool has really started stepping up their game but everyone is starting to feel tired as well. We can do this!

I wish you all a very relaxing Sunday.

    Sabina Michelotti


Reminders:

• Show&Tell on Monday: please send in something to do with summer.