The Three Little Pigs

Welcome to term two! This term our theme is Fairy-tales. We will be reading many stories, comparing many stories and even writing our own! This week our big book focus was The Three Little Pigs. As this text was familiar with most students we could really focus on: character; setting; and, problem and solution. 

 We had a great discussion about problem and solution and came up with many different scenarios. We concluded that the problem in this story was "the wolf wanted to blow down the pigs' homes because he wanted to eat the pigs" and the solution was "the pigs ended up outsmarting the wolf by burning his tail and ensuring he never returns again".

We have also observed that in fairy tales the "wolf" character is often portrayed as the antagonist (bad guy). This is the list we made up so far of fairy tales in which a wolf is the "bad guy":

Peter and the Wolf

The Three Little Pigs

Little Red Riding Hood

I wonder if we will add to this list by the end of the term?

Easter Fun in Year One!

Here is a little look at all the fun we have been having leading up to Easter. 

On Wednesday we made Easter Bunny Tails, these cute little Easter Bunny Tails are made from marshmallows, chocolate and coconut. It was a simple process, which led to some seriously delicious treats!

Below is the method we used:

Step 1. Place white chocolate and coconut into heatproof bowls. Melt the chocolate on high in the microwave for one minute and stir until it is smooth.
Step 2. Dip the marshmallow into the melted chocolate and tap off excess chocolate.
Step 3. Roll the marshmallow in the coconut.
Step 4. Place on a plate and refrigerate for 10 minutes before serving.

 

On Thursday morning we had a visitor from the Easter Bunny himself! He made a big mess of our class and nearly jeopardised our title of the Golden Broom. Luckily, he left us some delicious eggs to share and a lovely note expressing how hard we have been working. 

Then on Thursday afternoon the moment we had all been waiting for- our Easter Egg Hunt!!! We got our baskets ready and went into the garden area behind Block 3. After we collected all the eggs we went back to class and discussed what we could do to divide them equally. We decided that first we had to find out how many eggs we collected. We estimated then counted. In total we had found... 110 eggs! A ridiculously good number considering there were 21 students and 1 teacher. After lots of dividing and sharing we found out that we could have 5 each and boy were we happy with that!

Have a safe, happy and fun Easter!

Little waves, Big achievements

This morning the year ones were not only dazzling, but delightful and divine! It was my absolute pleasure watching your children perform today and I have to say what an achievement that is for year ones this early in the year. A lot of students overcame personal goals to stand in front of the whole school and perform- we owe a lot of our confidence to our equally talented and amazing Room 17.

During the past few weeks it has been an honour watching how gentle, kind and supportive Room 17 have been with their little waves. They truly are a remarkable class who have entertained us with many skits and jokes.

I hope you enjoyed the assembly and was as proud as I was to watch them act, sing, dance and laugh. Below are some photos from this morning. A video (with many thanks to Dylan from Room 17) will be uploaded to this post once it has been edited. I would also like to invite any parents who would like to me share any photos from the day to email me at nadean.rifai@education.wa.edu.au

 

A big thank you to Miss Chalkley for helping the little waves look amazing by creating the wonderful tie dye shirts.

 Golden Broom Winners- a very proud moment for Room 6 and a first for Y.B.P.S. Thank you to our wonderful cleaner Sophia for choosing our class for this award and for your visit in the afternoon with our treats!