Week 8 Term 3

A big congratulations to our Service Ambassadors - Nanaki, Sarah and Asher - who did us all proud last weekend. We really enjoyed hearing about your visits and look forward to finding out more at the last K2 Assembly of the year. It has also been great to hear from you, the parents, who went on the trips and, by all accounts, it was a meaningful, emotional and eye-opening experience for everyone involved. 

The children are evidently thinking and talking a lot about Service at the moment and it is heartening to hear stories of children taking the initiative to help others outside of school, such as Derya, Samuel, Oliver and Laila, who decided to hold a bake sale for supporting KUMA, Cambodia. 

Thank you to everyone who returned the Service Diaries this morning. It has clearly been a worthwhile experience for many of you and the children who have been helping out in all sorts of areas at home.

In our current unit on Animal Adaptations, we have been exploring animals, their characteristics and habitats and we have also been discussing what animals need to survive in the environment. Our students have been engaged in meaningful play with their classmates. They have been using iPads to draw animals in their natural habitats. The children have also been using Lego blocks to create animals! 

In Mathematics, the children are becoming experts at inventing more and more complex growing patterns. This week, the children have created their patterns using musical instruments in the music room, inch grid paper, wooden shapes and tiles. They have even been creating growing patterns using Lego! 

Cooking: Michelle (Ethan’s mum) taught our children to make delicious, healthy  Dirt Cups. I find it’s a great thing to include in your child’s parties!

Mystery Readers: Thank you to Belinda and Joshua for being the story tellers to a group of eager, wide-eyed K2PTh children. They love being read to!

Have a great weekend!