Wow, we've only one term left of the year! It's going to be a busy one. We are going to look at Aboriginal dreamtime stories, and celebrations as our main focus.
We will also prepare to transition into Year 1 this term. Firstly, we will no longer do shared fruit, instead we will retrieve our own piece of fruit from our lunch boxes and eat that at Recess. Towards the end of the term, we will experience eating and playing with the Year 1s and 2s. Finally, there will also be an opportunity for us to experience Year 1 through a visit and activities.
We welcome new students to Room 4. Last term Olivia joined us and this term we welcome Paige. In addition, Kyron has returned. We now have 24 beautiful students!
Friday, 31 October 2014
Community Helpers Dress Up Day
We concluded our term's focus on community helpers with a community helpers dress up and picnic. We've enjoyed learning about community helpers!
Donnybrook Excursion
As part of our focus on community helpers and history, we went on an excursion of Donnybrook's community with Rooms 2 and 3. We took up two buses, mixed groups and visited a number of places around Donnybrook.
We went to the local museum where we saw a lot of old things.
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| An old phone. How different is it to mum's mobile? |
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| An old slate used at school. Now we have mini whiteboards or iPads. |
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| A typewriter. Today we might use a computer instead. |
We met some firefighters at the Donnybrook Fire Station.
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| We learnt about fire protection gear. |
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| The firefighters demonstrated using the jaws of life. |
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| One of our parent helpers volunteered in the stretcher. |
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| Some of us got to hold the fire hose. |
We got a tour of the Police Station where we saw where the guns get kept, the court room, the old lock up, the current cell, and a paddy wagon.
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| Donnybrook Police Station |
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| Where the guns are kept. |
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| Inside the police station. |
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| Naughty kids locked up in the cell. They don't look too happy about it! |
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| More naughty kids in the paddy wagon |
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| Trying on a bullet proof vest |
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| Getting arrested |
We had a tour of the post office and learnt how the mail gets sorted.
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| Where the parcels are kept for collection |
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| We posted a letter and followed the process to sorting the mail. |
Our last stop was the famous Apple Fun Park.
Father's Day
We love our dads so this week we have been celebrating fathers.
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| We read many books about dads this week. One of our favourites was 'My Dad Thinks He's Funny'. |
In preparation for Father's Day and to celebrate our fathers, we participated in many activities this week. We made rocky road for dad, painted coffee mugs, wrote about what we love best about our dads, made ties for our dads to wear and invited our dads to a Father's BBQ Evening.
The evening was a huge success and a lot of fun. We did many things with our dads. Some of the activities were: sharing stories about dads, making handprints of our hands and dad's, painting a portrait of dad, constructing wooden creations, having our photos taken at the photo booth and shaving our dad's faces. We also enjoyed a drink and a sausage sizzle.
We wish that all the dads had a happy Father's Day!
Ambulance Visit
The Ambulance visited today!
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| The ambulance arrived with flashing lights and siren! |
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| The magic ice pack. It was originally warm and then went ice cold! |
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| One student had a sore arm (pretend) that was placed into a sling. |
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| A girl had a head injury (pretend) that was bandaged. |
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| The bandaged head. |
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| This student is ready to have his heart monitored. |
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| Strapped to the stretcher for a ride. |
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| We went into the van for a look! |
Saturday, 18 October 2014
National Book Week
This week is National Book Week. In Room 4, we participated in Book Week by reading a book a day from this year's shortlisted books, focused on one book, joined in with the whole school to share in a variety of activities, individually voted on our favourite book and dressed up as our favourite character from a book. We had a great time! Our focus book was 'Parachute'. A parachute is the first thing that Toby puts on each morning. It gives him the courage to deal with all kinds of tricky situations, such as getting out of bed, sliding off a chair, and riding his bike. But sometimes someone else's troubles can be greater than your own, and this is what Toby discovers one day. This is a powerful and fantastical story about a fearful child finding his independence.  After our reading of 'Parachute', we played with a parachute. 
Dress up for Book Week
Batman was there.
This was very creative, a stuffed rabbit was cut up and stuffing removed and made the perfect Peter Rabbit.
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| The staff of Treendale PS made an effort to dress up too! |
The Police Visit!
To kick off our focus on community helpers this term, we had a visit from the Police! We had a police officer talk about what a police officer does, how to become a police office, road safety, police equipment and when and how to call the police. We also went into the police car, saw the flashing lights, tried on police jackets, belt and hat.
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| The police car that came to visit. |
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| One of our classmates was arrested by a cadet. |
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| Future police officers? |
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A very smartly dressed cadet. Even our school uniforms suit the outfit. |