Throughout last week Prep C read a fabulous and very interesting story titled, ‘One World Many Stories’. It was about three children who live in different parts of the world. After we read the story we discussed the day to day lives of each of these children. Joshua was from Australia, An’h was from Vietnam and Kwasi was from Kenya. It was an eye opener to many of the children and some of the comments made during our story were amazing! Can you discuss each of these children with your family and some of the things they did throughout the day. I have also posted a song on our blog about the world and just how small it is. Enjoy!!

In Prep C we have been using the ‘Colourful Semantic’ cards to assist us with our writing. When we are writing about certain topics which we have experienced or are going to experience, we use these cards to help us put our thoughts together and into some sort of structure. For example, if we are going to write about our weekend we would use the above cards to assist us in piecing all our thoughts together and writing them down in an order which makes sense. Before we begin our writing we share our thoughts with a partner or in a group and then share these thoughts with one another. The cards are as follows: When did it happen? Who was there/Who came? Where did you go? What did you do? and we have recently introduced one which is about writing about what we thought of the activity. You might like to try and use these colourful semantic cards to help you write about something you did this weekend. Please bring them into class, I would like to display your work and share it with the class.

I’m sure all the boys and girls of Prep C have spoken to you about the golden handshake. Every afternoon I put on a very long golden glove while the children wait in anticipation. While wearing the glove I choose someone in the class who has been caught doing something special for someone else or who has been a very hard worker that day. I then give them the ‘Golden Handshake’ explaining why I have chosen to give the handshake to them. The most amazing thing happens when I give the handshake. Not only does the person I give it to feel proud, but the others in the class congratulate the person and show them how proud they are. We are a real team in Prep C! The other day I decided to try something different with my class. I decided that I was going to choose someone who would like to give the golden handshake to a member of our class and explain why. I chose Isabelle and while wearing the glove she thought very hard about who he was going to give the golden handshake to. After a lot of thinking he chose Kelli and told us the reason why she chose her was because she was helping to clean our classroom and was working as a team! How impressive!! I wonder if you can catch someone this week who is doing something you think is worthy of ‘The Golden Handshake’.

Some mornings in Prep C we have a little dance. We dance the ‘Chicken Dance’. It is so much fun and it’s a nice way to begin the day.

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