This week was a busy and exciting week with our first parent lunch and our first field trip.

We have been learning about sentence structure this last week, using picture cards to create ideas and stories, then putting words to those pictures to make sentences. We had been exploring the who, what and where of our stories but with parents coming into our classroom it was a good opportunity to show off what we had learned and expand those sentences by adding in when the stories happened and why our characters were performing an action.
The children really enjoyed having their parents or family members come into the class to show them what they could do and everyone made a great sentence story. Also kudos to the parents for joining and working with us on the carpet and giving those knees a workout!

A big thank you for everyone who attended and brought items for the lunch, they were great sandwiches. Special thanks to Kristina for organising the lunch and decorating the classroom. The children are really enjoying the decorations.

We had our first field trip to the Library this week. First the children received their very own library card they can use to check out 3 books at a time. We then had a special behind the scenes look at the machines and robots used to sort returned books, which was very interesting and exciting. Each book has a special microchip in it that the computer reads, to identify where the book needs to be sent to. After our picnic lunch, we had free time to explore the library before choosing our 3 books we were interested in and wanted and check them out. We plan to make this a recurring trip where the children learn to use the library as a resource and tool, where we can go to find books for research, on a project we are doing or for books to read for enjoyment. We have approximately 3 weeks with our current books before we need to return them and choose new ones!
Back in the class each child poured over their own and each others chosen books and are very excited to return to the library and read more in the future!