Giday Parents.
This week the children learnt about animals that are unique to our Australian bush.
God made all the creatures. God made you and me. God made or the creatures from the ground and in the trees. God made or the creatures. He made them everyone. God made or the creatures under the hot Australian sun.
The children enjoyed singing along to this song to learn to appreciate all the animals unique to Australia.
The children also enjoyed learning the song " Gumtree family" by Justine Clarke.
We used this action song for indoor fitness.
The children learnt about Australian mammals and marsupials. Don't forget to ask your child " What a baby echidna is called?
After reading the story ' Puggle', we made Echidnas out of clay and counted out 10-20 spines to put on them. The children learnt some special facts about the animals.
A baby echidna is called a puggle
It has a long snout and long tongue to pick up termites,
A baby echidna comes from an egg. A baby echidna drinks milk from it's mother.
Echidna's are monotremes.
Baby kangaroos and Koalas are called joey's. They drink from their mother's pouch.
We celebrated each unique Australian animal by creating a piece of artwork similar to the paintings found in the book called " Linda Jackson's Rainbow Menagerie".
Indoor fitness: in this photo the children are up to the slithering snakes in the song.
We even made a crunchy munchy stew just like the friends and the Dingo made in the story Wombat Stew. This was another popular story of the week. The children had to remember the recipe in the story by making a collage wombat stew and also a stew made from items found in the Kindy playground.
We practiced some letter formations in our sand boxes.
We finished meeting our Kimochi dolls; Huggtapus, Cat and Bug.
Sorting game with Aussie animals Making wombat stew
Now we are ready for a much needed rest as we head into the holidays. What an extraordinary 11 week Term we have had learning, growing and playing with our friends.
Over and Out.
