What do good learners do?

All this term we have been thinking about what good learners do. We brainstormed our ideas and made a chart for our classroom to remind us every day.

Here are our ideas:

What do good learners do?

- they try their best
- they take turns
- they are patient
- they listen to each other
- they listen to the teacher
- they do creative things
- they help others
- they never give up
- they follow the rules
- they cooperate
- they think

What an amazing list from our Preps!

We have made our very first voicethread with our friends in Prep D to share with our families and friends about what good learners do.
We have also been exploring a drawing program called Tux Paint. We made our pictures in Tux Paint.

What do you think good learners do?

Please add to our list by leaving a comment.

Then ... and Now... Our Hairy Harrys!

We have been watching our Hairy Harrys to see how they have changed over the last two weeks. We have made some surprising observations.

Our Hairy Harrys have grown since we made them. Hannah A
While we have been sleeping the Hairy Harrys have grown. Ben
It has been a long time for the Hairy Harry to grow. Bethany
My Hairy Harry only has one root and only two hairs. I wonder what is happening? Hamish
When we looked in the cupboard our Hairy Harry didn't have any hair. Prep D's cupboard Hairy Harry had yellow hair. We decided to put our Harry in Prep D's cupboard. Mia
I think our Hairy Harry needs a warm cupboard to grow. Aly
My Hairy Harry has grown a hair at his eye and lots of hair at the back. Hannah B
My Hairy Harry took a very long time to grow hair. Annie
Our Hairy Harrys need seeds, soil, water and sun to grow. Zachary
You have to put in water and soil and seeds to make the Hairy Harrys grow. They need sun. Matthew
My Hairy Harry has got the most hair. I think it had the most water. Tom
My Hairy Harry has lots of hair because of the seeds and the water and the soil. The roots helped it to grow. Nicholas
My Hairy Harry has grown hair because of the roots. The roots suck up food and water and it helps the plant grow. Kobe

Here are our Hairy Harrys - Then and Now! 

Location, Location!

Today in Maths we explored location words. Location words help us describe where we are.

Where is Prep K?

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Look what has happened ......

Some of our Hairy Harrys have started to grow hair!
Not all our Harrys are growing. I wonder why?

This Hairy Harry has no soil! Look how it has grown.

No soil.

Here we are!

Why do you think only some of our Hairy Harrys have grown?

Why is the Harry without soil growing so well?

Marvellous Monsters!

Watch out! Prep K have created their own Marvellous Monsters!

We were very creative today and used lots of different materials to make our monsters. We hope you enjoy the show!

Marvellous Monsters! - slide show

I Wonder ..... What happens when we look through our coloured glasses?

Today we made some glasses so that we could look at our world in a different way. We decorated them and chose some cellophane to put over the lenses.
Before we went out to explore, we thought about how our playground might look. Would we see different colours? How would the colour of our glasses change the colours we saw?

Here are the discoveries we made:

Hamish discovered that green glasses didn’t change much.

Nothing changed in the playground with green glasses. Nicholas

Mia discovered everything looked pink through the red glasses.

Kobe discovered that the playground, which is blue, looks purple through the red glasses.

The running track is red and when we looked through red glasses it was orange. Aly

Green leaves change to yellowy-green when you look through yellow glasses. Hannah B

Everything looks yellow when you wear yellow glasses. Bethany

The blue bin looks purple when you look through red glasses. Hannah A

The red mushrooms turned green when I looked through green glasses. Ben

The sky is pink through red glasses. Matthew

The yellow paper looked orange and the blue paper looked purple looking through red glasses. Annie

Enjoy our photos:

Colour My World! on PhotoPeach

29th February 2012!

Prep D and Prep K HAD to celebrate this very special day by making the number 29!  

29th February 2012!

What is a leap year?

When will the next leap year occur?
How old will you be?

I Wonder ..............

To help us begin to think and wonder about the world we have made our Hairy Harrys. We were thinking about what the Hairy Harrys need to grow?  Together we decided that the Harrys need water, soil and light to grow.


Hairy Harry in the cupboard (no light).

What would happen if we put a Hairy Harry in the cupboard (no light)? Hannah B thought the Harry would die. Some Preps thought the Harry would not grow.

Hairy Harry - no water.

We also have one Hairy Harry without water - what will happen?

We have one Harry without soil.

Hairy Harry - no soil.

We are being real scientists and are watching (observing) our Hairy Harrys to see what happens.

Watching ... waiting ... watching ...waiting .... I wonder what will happen!

Here we are with our Hairy Harrys.
Keep visiting to see what happens next!

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Off and running!

We have had a very busy start to the year.
There is so much to learn and do when you start school. Prep K are doing a sensational job and are working hard to always do their best.
Today we made pancakes! We hope you enjoy our very first slide show for the year!

Tell us about your first days at school.

What are your favourite activities?

A new look!

A new look for the New Year! In February a new group of Prep students will begin their learning journey in Prep K. We hope you visit and leave some comments as we share all our wonderful learning over the year.