Category: Pre-Primary Blue

PPB – Ash Wednesday

March 2, 2020
Tracey Poinen
· Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue

Term One – 01/03/20

LENT

On the 26th February, we held our own special prayer service in our classroom to commemorate Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Holy season of LENT. We created a sacred prayer space, lit a candle, prayed together and then received the blessed ashes. Lent is a time to pray, fast and give. It is time to prepare our hearts for the coming of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. During this season we especially reflect upon the extra things that we can do to love and care for others. We discussed our lenten promises and the children developed some thoughtful ideas about how they can show love and kindness to those around them as well as those we may encounter throughout our journeys.

First Weeks in PPB!

February 13, 2020
Tracey Poinen
· Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue

Week 2 Term 1 – 12/02/20

PRE-PRIMARY BLUE – TAKE 2!

So much fun and learning in only a week and a half!

The pre-primary children are settling in well to their new learning environment, developing new classroom routines, learning to be active listeners, firing up their imaginations and doing many more things all by themselves! They have so much to learn and think about in these first few weeks and are doing a really great job so far! Thank you to all families for supporting us during morning transition and for allowing your children to independently manage their morning jobs!

We have dived right into our learning topics, with fun and PLAY EXPERIENCES at the heart of all we do!

To celebrate the Lunar New Year, our dramatic play space has become an area that represents Asian cultures. The children have been role playing and practicing their culinary skills using chopsticks! We watched a video about Chinese New Year celebrations. We discussed how Chinese characters are written vertically and compared this to the way we write from left to right. We learnt about how the colour red symbolises good luck and how children are given small red packets (ang pow) with money inside for the new year.

The children have been creating some amazing buildings, cities and towers in the block corner. ‘Jurassic World’ as the children have named it, has been a popular play spot too! Play dough and lots and lots of drawing have been on the agenda as well! Did I mention that these children LOVE LOVE LOVE drawing? If anyone has any links to a printer or any scrap paper they would like to donate…we will gladly accept!

Our letter ‘S’ focus lead us to investigate SPINY LEAF INSECTS! Thank you Oliver for bringing in our now, newly adopted class pets! You are a great teacher Oliver…we have been learning so much from you about these amazing insects!Spaghetti painting was a highlight! This whole language experience motivates children and helps them to consolidate learning. As you can see we love messy fun! Some children absolutely loved this sensory experience and were hanging out for more! For others it was a new learning experience.

We enjoyed a FOOTY CLINIC this week, which was organised by Mr Davis. Thank you Mr Davis! We learnt many new skills about footy including how to hold and handle a football correctly, how to pass and kick!

“Laces to Faces and Nose to Toes!”

The fun doesn’t stop there! We have been having a great time exploring our brand new pre-primary playground and we have been having a lot of fun in our whole outdoor environment!

Some children have been cooking up a storm in the mud kitchen, others venturing on the monkey bars and fort, and some taking advantage of the warm weather by splashing out in the water play centres.

We have had a calm and happy start to the year and we look forward to a lot more learning adventures in the term ahead!

Pre-Primary Parent Information Booklet 2020

February 4, 2020
Tracey Poinen
· Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue · Pre-Primary Gold

04/02/20

Dear Families,

Welcome to you all! We have had a positive start to the year and the children are enjoying exploring their new environments.

Thank you for attending our Parent Information Evening last night.

It was lovely to meet you all and to see some new and some familiar faces! We really appreciate your time and effort!

Please read through our Parent Information Booklet and our Term One Programme Information.

Please also note the important dates in your diary for this term.

We are looking forward to lots of fun, learning and discovery!

Miss Bombardieri & Mrs Poinen

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What is Patience? Responses from PPB

November 20, 2019
Tracey Poinen
· Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue

Term Four – 18th November 2019

Today in Pre-Primary Blue, we had a wonderful discussion about WAITING for something special and our Fruit of the Holy Spirit, PATIENCE.

We discussed what it feels like to wait for something special or for a special thing to happen. The children shared their own examples of these special moments and their feelings associated with it.

Here are some of their thoughts about: “What is Patience?”

“Patience means waiting.” – Jayden
“Patience means you don’t talk when someone else is talking.” – anonymous
“Patience means if you’re waiting to order something, you need to wait patiently.” – Kirath
“Patience is waiting for something to come in the post; we need to wait for a long time.” – Dwayne
“Waiting to go to the shops and you might get a new toy; you have to be patient.” – Oscar
“You have to put your hand up and wait patiently for the teacher to call you.” – Savannah
“When you get invited to someone’s birthday, you have to wait patiently for the special day.” – Mila
“When you’re at a carnival waiting for a ride and you have to wait in line patiently for your turn.” – Mason
“I had to wait for my Aunty’s baby to come out.” – Amelia

We viewed a story called, “Waiting is Not Easy!”

As we soon approach the season of ADVENT, the children will be led to wonder about how Mary and Joseph WAITED and prepared for the birth of Jesus.

Welcome To Term Four in Pre-Primary!

October 15, 2019
Tracey Poinen
· Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue · Pre-Primary Gold

Term Four in Pre-Primary!

15th October 2019

A warm welcome back to all families!

Please click on the link below to read our Programme Information for Term Four:

Pre-Primary Term Four Welcome Letter

Year 1 in 2020 Uniform Try Ons

September 11, 2019
Stuart Munro
· Messages · Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue · Pre-Primary Gold · Uniform Shop

Dear Pre-Primary Parents

Please find attached information regarding uniform try ons for Year 1 2020.

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PPB First Aid Incursion

September 4, 2019
Tracey Poinen
· Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue

3rd September 2019

St John First Aid Incursion

Today our class had a First Aid Incursion run by Jane from St. John Ambulance.

We met “Koora” the Paramedic Bear and read a story called, “000 Hero.”

We learned a song about “000” and practiced dialling the emergency number on our very own mobile phones. We then role played speaking to an emergency service operator and practiced giving the correct information that we need to know, to the operator.

We learned about what a paramedic wears and the colour of their uniforms. We saw and discussed the reflective stripes on the back of their uniforms and thought about why it is important for them to wear fluorescent vests…just like our teachers do too!

We had so much fun dressing up like paramedics!

We went home today with our “mobile phones” to share with our families how to use the emergency services, dial the triple zero number and to practice giving the important information over the phone to the emergency services operator. Jane also gave us all some stickers. It was an informative and fun incursion.

Pre-Primary Hospital Incursion

August 18, 2019
Tracey Poinen
· Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue

Term 3 – 18th August 2019

Our Hospital Incursion

On Wednesday 14th August, we had the pleasure of welcoming Marianne from The Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital (Awchwa) to our class. She visited our classes to teach the Pre-Primary children all about hospitals and what to expect if they ever need to be treated in a children’s hospital.

The children also met Pete and Amy, the hospital dolls. We role played with Pete and Amy, learnt all about some of the special equipment needed to treat patients, the types of protective clothing that medical staff wear and how needles, drips and oxygen masks are administered safely to help patients. We also discussed when, how and who is allowed to administer medication to children and we watched as Marianne gave medicine to Amy and Pete.

The children enjoyed having a turn in the wheelchair and learning how to use crutches. Marianne took the children’s blood pressure and they all had a turn at using a stethoscope to listen to their own heart beat. We made hospital bands, learnt about bones in our body and put together a skeletal puzzle of ‘Mr Funny Bones.’ The children dressed up in medical attire, used tools and equipment to role play doctors, nurses, surgeons and ambulance officers.

We watched a video about a little boy who broke his arm and we followed the whole process with him as he was consulted, treated, operated on, all the way through to his recovery in hospital. There were beds in the children’s hospital for his parents to stay close by and even a school and other children to play with. We learnt that being treated in hospital is not so scary after all.

It was a fun and informative day!

Thank you Marianne.

We have a number of future doctors, nurses, surgeons and paramedics in our class! Our shared outdoor play space is now in transformation…soon to be the Pre-Primary Hospital!

All patients welcome!

100 Days of FUN in PPB!

August 7, 2019
Tracey Poinen
· Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue

Term 3- Week 3

6th August 2019

100 Days of FUN!

What fun we had celebrating the 100th day of school! We eagerly counted from day one until we reached our target and the excitement in our class grew as the days became closer. Our knowledge of numbers to 100 has grown and we enjoyed participating in a range of mathematical activities based on the number 100. Thank you to all families for the effort that went into the children’s costumes for our celebration day…it was wonderful! We are still counting all the collections brought in by all the children of 100 items!

: Our crowns have 100 dots!

: Making a 100 piece necklace.

: Counting 100 fruit loops is hard work!

: Dot painting in groups of 10 to make 100.

: What does 100 look like?

: How many is 100?

: Counting in tens.

: Ordering numbers by tens to 100.

: Party Time!

These fine gentlemen pictured below put their creative brains to work on the 100th day of school and developed an idea to build 100 cubes, which they then decided amongst themselves that they would use to build a tower. Each cube required 4 pieces to make…if they were putting together 100 cubes, how many pieces in total were needed to complete this project? Have you worked it out? These gentlemen did, through our discussions together, about their amazing work! Learning through PLAY is so POWERFUL!

What a fantastic idea to build 100 cubes!

Counting and checking to make sure we have 100 cubes!

Excellent team work boys!

In the days that followed our celebration, we practiced reading together during guided reading about the 100 days of school. We learnt about what a tally is and drew 100 tally marks. To do this, we needed to count in groups of five and then circle two groups to make 10. Then we counted in tens until we reached 100 tally marks. We are pretty amazing at counting in tens now! We wrote about: the things we would like to achieve before we turn 100 years old, what we would do if we had $100 and what 100 things we would like to have, if we could. We also created some beautiful artwork of how we think we may look like when we do reach 100 years old…

…look out for this special work at OPEN NIGHT!

It was truly a memorable day that we will all treasure!