This week, the prep neighbourhood went on a walking excursion to the Carlton library in Rathdowne Street. There were two reasons we organised this excursion. One reason being that Book Week is fast approaching, so it seemed an ideal opportunity to explore our local library and share our love of books. The other was to…
NAIDOC Week Art Studio
Natural materials are a big part of Aboriginal arts. To connect with this, children searched through a selection of natural materials and placed these over a piece of cardboard which they covered using torn pieces of bark sheets as a background. The paperbark mosaic formed the backdrop whilst stones, paper bark, leaves, shells, gum, nuts, twine…
End of Term Assembly
For those of you interested in rewatching the Prep’s contribution to the school’s Term Two Assembly, a link has been created for you here. In it, you’ll find a small selection of videos related to our exploration of collaboration through various construction projects and a dinosaurs mural.
What are you proud of?
Im proud of collaborating and mixing ideas with other peoples! Ursula As the term draws to an end, the children have been reflecting on their two terms of school. We began our reflection by asking the children what are you proud of? I’m proud of getting better at all the maths! Raph I’m proud of…
Building Our Understanding of Collaboration
“In provocations we did collaboration.” Allen This response from Allen to the writing reflection in which children had a go at writing what they had been doing in provocations sums up our focus. It’s also a clear indication that the children have a solid understanding of our inquiry into collaboration. We see collaboration in all…
What Can We Leave Behind?
The children have begun to notice traces of past inquiries left by previous preps and have begun to ask the question ‘what can we leave behind?’ We’ve reflected on our learning over the course of the year and the children were able to identify and discuss that our inquiry has been on the concept of…
Strong & Capable
The children have settled back into school beautifully. Every day they demonstrate what strong and capable children they are, following our daily routines with ease and confidence. It is a joy to have them back! We continue our inquiry into what it means to “collaborate”. To grow the children’s understanding of “collaboration” and make connections…
Oh, how time flies!
As the term draws to a close, the preps have been focused on bringing together all their skills and understandings. We’re all very excited to bring our ideas about collaboration, creativity and dinosaurs to the next level. Although the term is ending, we haven’t slowed down! Last week, many students had the opportunity to dip…
Authentic Writing in the Neighbourhood
The children continue to be exposed to regular practice in fine motor skills and in letter formation to ensure the development of good handwriting habits. Developing their fine motor skills is key to children becoming fluent, legible and competent practitioners of Victorian Modern Cursive handwriting style. There are a number of factors that we discuss…
What happens when we collaborate?
As a team, we unpacked our observations of the children’s responses to the provocations we provided inviting them to share their wonderings. A common theme began to emerge: the theme of collaboration. We were noticing in our documenting and discussions with children that they were beginning to gravitate to others to work side-by-side on shared…