Maths outside ??

Last week on an early Thursday morning there was a buzz in the air as children were arriving to school. Two busy bees, Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Berg were hastily sticking up posters and envelopes all around the infants playground !

Kindergarten were learning about position, using a variety of words to help us locate things and to help us direct people to different places. We had discovered so many new words some of which even meant the same thing like beside and next to.

After lunch one Mrs Berg and Mrs Carter took everybody outside and explained that today for Math's we would be playing a game of position orienteering ! The whole class were split into teams and given a clipboard with a clue on it. Teams had to read the clue and follow the directions that would lead them to the next place for the next clue. Each clue started with a position like.. "Under the slippery dip". Children really had to know and understand the position terms to be able to work as a team to collect their clues. Along the way each team was on the look out for a secret envelope that no team was allowed to open until the end.

When each team arrived at the final destination we opened the envelopes to find a secret word. We realised if we put the words together it might uncover a secret message. And it did. Our secret message read... "Knowing position words can help us find things".

Helping each other uncover the position word ! 

Discussing the first clue ! 

Which team will collect all of the clues and get back to the final destination ?!!

We had a great time taking our learning outside whilst keeping our bodies fit and healthy !!!

The Mission of Jesus

Kindergarten have really felt the impact of what it would be like to only survive on one glass of water and half a cup of rice a day !

As Mrs. Berg and I sat the the children down to eat their meal for the day we explained to everyone that in some countries this was a reality. Some children would live on this food everyday and nothing else. Kindergarten thought about how boring that would be and how it couldn't be good for your body when you need so many different things for your body to be healthy.

We started to learn about the Mission of Jesus. Through doing different activities we realised that Jesus's Mission was to love and help others like you would like others to love and help you. We learnt that there were so many people in the world already living out the Mission of Jesus, just like the volunteers of Penrith Kitchen whom we collected and donated food to. They were giving up their time, money and food items to cook for people of our community that don't have enough to eat.

We learnt that it's not just people in our community living out the Mission of Jesus. People all over the world are loving and helping others in many different and creative ways. A man from America created a website for his children to help them to study. He set the website up so that you have to answer a multiple choice question and if you get it right the website donates ten grains of rice to a third world country. We played the game to see how many bowls of rice we could get to feed as many people as we could. By the end of the activity we had answered enough questions correctly to fill 124 bowls of rice !!!!!!!! We were thrilled at how many people we could help by doing something so fun !

We realised we don't have to create websites or just donate food to live out the mission of Jesus. Anytime we show love or help others we are living out the Mission of Jesus. What we know though is that there are many people all over the world, in Australia and in Penrith who are less fortunate than us. It's up to people like us, to get in there and "Do something about it!". All you need to do is think about how you can best help others with what you can do and what you have.

So thats exactly what Kindergarten decided to do. We came up with an idea to grow a vegetable garden. We thought if we looked after the garden and helped it grow we could use the fruit and vegetables to make up baskets of food to share with those people who are in need in our community. We were all so excited to get moving on our idea and before we knew it after some careful planning and a bit of help from Mr Cry and Mr Meredith, Kindergarten had their very own vegetable garden.

Before long we were thrilled to find that two scrumptious looking strawberries had grown. We pondered over who would benefit from our first pickings and the result was unanimous. We invited Mrs. Jackson down to visit our garden and presented her with our first fruits ! We thought seeing Mrs Jackson is someone that works at the very heart of our school community and does so much for us we thought she deserved a yummy treat for crunch and sip.

If you get the chance, feel free to come down and have a look at our garden and see all the wonderful fruits and vege's growing. We are sure it won't be long until we can put our first basket of fresh food together to help our community in need.

How many bowls of rice can we get ?????

Everybody trying so hard to feed as many people as possible ! 

MMmmm I wonder what the answer is ???

Give junk food the boot and switch to fruit !!

Kindergarten were apart of fruit and vegetable week recently which is aimed at encouraging a healthy lifestyle under the Live Life Well program, a current school initiative.

All classes in the school incorporated a variety of activities that centred around being healthy and nutritious. At the end of the week we celebrated the weeks events by coming together and sharing some of the learning that had occurred. Every class had the challenge of creating a mascot based on the theme of the week.

Kindergarten were involved in many activities from fruit and vegetable tasting, to making their own fruit and vegetable person. Have a look at the fun we had playing around with our class mascot, Healthy Hero !!