It has been a very busy and exciting term.  We have been thinking about how to show kindness with our words and actions.  We have also been trying hard to notice and acknowledge when people are kind to us and to other people.  Everyone has jumped on board the Kindness Bus and have their photo on our poster.  Well done!  We have also been giving out lots of Kindness Cards to each other.  As part of our Kindness Unit we worked in groups to bake Anzac Biscuits, make beautiful soap, decorate Kindness Boxes and make cards.  We delivered these to people in our community who have been kind to us this year: the Ambulance, the Police, and Elders at Star of the Sea and HAAC.

We have continued to receive postcards from our friend, Tashi, and learn about special places in Australia.  We learnt about how the Anangu People care for the land around Uluru and Katajuta.  We also learnt that people in cities are not always kind: sometimes people don’t greet each other or say sorry when they bump into someone.  We wrote prayers to thank God for the beautiful world He has given us to take care of, and to ask God to help people be kind to each other.

We have worked very hard in Maths learning new strategies to help us add, subtract, divide and multiply.  I think everyone loved it best when we got to use biscuits to show Start, Action, End Stories and show the Part, Part, Total model.  Actually, I think everyone liked the part where they got to eat the biscuits the best!

We created posters using adjectives and persuasive language to persuade people to visit the café’s and hotels on Waibene.  We also used persuasive language to make beautiful posters for our fathers, and father figures, for Father’s Day.  However, our most proud achievement was persuading Miss Presley and Mr Jonathan to get a pet!

We have expanded our vocabularies and found synonyms for adjectives which describe how we are feeling.  We’re excited about using these when we write our Wishing Stories next term.  We can’t wait!

Thank you for supporting your child’s learning,

Blessings,

Miss Presley