It is week 6 and we have settled in to a routine that helps each of us to make the most of our learning time. Our morning session seems to be the most productive and one of our students is exploring being the teacher as he uses the class ASL (Aided Language Stimulation) Boards to “ask a question” and support his classmates to register their attendance. Each morning we check the previous day off the calendar, and match the day, date and month to our display. We also include mathematics instruction as we count how many students are here and how many are away.

As we are exploring movement and measurement in Science and have resident stick insects in the classroom. Everyone was tricked into thinking the biggest stick insect was a male but things are very different in nature and our lovely big Tessellated Stick Insect is actually a girl. We enjoyed collecting twigs to make our own stick insects but they definitely don’t move as well as the real thing!

It was exciting to see some of the crew stepping up to bat on Pink Stumps Day. Taking turns and sharing is also a regular lesson on the new playground equipment and it is wonderful to see many new friendships evolving as common interests are found.

We mix and match digital and hands on activities for maths, and are tuning our gross and fine motor skills. Individually, we are all at different levels so are working towards our ICP goals which are also connected to our communication goals.

Until next time, all the best from

Team JS3, Miss Jodie, Miss Emma and Miss Dana