What we’ve been up to!

Hi everyone,

I thought it’s about time I shared a few photos from the activities we’ve been doing!

Last week with our Buddies we read Hickory Dickory Dash, in preparation for National Simultaneous Story Time. Reading the book inspired us to make some clocks outside using a hoop and natural materials. We made a good start, but the rain stopped us from being able to finish which is a shame. Nevertheless, we had fun and managed to get some pics!

To prepare themselves to be Historians, the jaguars made Historian hats.
First we focused on being Questioners. We joined up with room 14 to explore some artifacts from the Mystery History box and used an app called Padlet to post some questions we had about the artifacts. Using question dice and a question matrix helped everyone to generate interesting questions that went beyond “what is it? and “what does it do?”.

We also had a guest speaker (a real historian!) come to talk about what he does, and to answer some questions that the children had about being a historian.

What’s the buzz?

So far in “What’s the buzz?” we have looked at:

Steps to greet people

  • smile
  • make eye contact
  • speak using a friendly voice

Accepting a greeting

  • look and smile
  • move closer
  • speak

Saying goodbye

  • say goodbye when you leave or plan to do something else
  • make it a friendly goodbye
  • handshakes/hugs/waves

You can help your child by:

  • talk about greeting people before it happens
  • giving reminders or a secret signal when they meet people or say goodbye
  • teach them how to handshake

Positive attention seeking behaviours

  • timing
  • smile
  • positive body language
  • offer to help
  • follow instructions of trusted adults

Demanding attention seeking behaviours

  • look angry
  • boss/threaten/tease others
  • interrupt
  • act silly
  • stand too close

It’s very easy for demanding behaviours to become habits.
You can help your child by:

  • talking about which behaviours they think they display generally, or as it’s happening (now that we’ve talked about the behaviours, you can pull them up on it!)
  • recognising and praising positive attention seeking behaviours
  • helping to rephrase demanding attention seeking requests, eg. “I want… “, “I need…”, “Why can’t I…”

 

Don’t forget, we have our excursion next week! It looks like the weather might not be on our side, so please make sure the wet weather gear still fits. I’ll be packing my wellies and rain coat.
Thank you to the parents who have volunteered to come along. Information about how the day will be run will be out to you next week.

Enjoy the weekend!

Erin

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