WA Museum and Hyde Park

Museum and Hyde Park Excursion

Last week the Yanchep Beach Kindy classes left school for the whole day and travelled into Perth on a long bus ride to visit the WA museum and Hyde Park. To continue our learning on insects and mini beasts we explored the museum and were able to find bugs from all over Western Australia! We found beetles, butterflies, spiders, stick insects, spiders and many more bugs. The museum workers even brought out a live leaf insect! We learned that leaf insects are camouflaged to take on the appearance of leaves so that the birds do not find them and eat them.

We then explored the rest of the museum and discovered dinosaur bones from local dinosaurs. We also saw diamonds and glowing rocks. In the mammal room the Kindy children had to listen to descriptive clues to try and find the correct mammals. 

After wandering around the museum we jumped back on the bus and went and had lunch and a play at Hyde Park. We had a marvellous day and were fortunate to have gorgeous weather both days!

Group 1

Group 2

Book Week

This week we celebrated Book Week.

I was super impressed with the effort that everybody took to dress up! All of the Kindies looked outstanding! We had a great variety of characters such as: princesses, spidermen, batman, a minion, pirates, cats and lots of others!

Group 1 participated in their DEAR (drop everything and read) on Tuesday afternoon where lots of our families and some of the senior students came to read books to us in the nature play.

Group 2 managed to stay dry whilst doing there DEAR inside the classroom where we were lucky to have a parent and Mr Fuller read to us.

Lynne and Sharon from Two Rocks and Clarkson library visited us and read some great stories bout bugs. This was apart of the Better Beginnings program where we all got to take home a book pack.

What a fantastic week!!!

Group 1 - Better Beginnings

 Group 1 - DEAR

 Group 1 - Costumes

Group 2 - Costumes

Group 2 - DEAR

Wendy Binks - Author & Illustrator

During Book Week group 2 were lucky enough to participate in Wendy’s workshop. She taught us about the book making process, showing us lots of pictures and videos of her books being published. She also showed us her favourite animals to draw. We joined in on a drawing master class, which focused on using simple 2D shapes to draw animals. We all had a go at drawing a baby emu coming out of an egg. 

Marshmallow Ants

One of our Talk for Writing focuses this term is learning to label pictures. We are learning about the different body parts of insects and mini beasts. We learned about the body parts of ants and created our own marshmallow ants complete with a head, abdomen, thorax, legs, eyes and antennae.

There's holes in our fruit

This week during fruit time we realised that there were holes through our fruit!

Mrs Jory, Mrs Larsen and our parent helpers were certain they didn't get hungry during class so we discussed other alternatives that could have eaten it. Worms, ants and caterpillars were at the top of the list however some of us thought it could have been a 'caterworm', a dog or even a mouse.

We managed to narrow down our choices to some kind of insect by thinking about the size of the holes and what was more likely to be around our classroom.

Soon after our discussions the mystery was solved; by Mrs Jory! She was cleaning up the fruit scraps and found a very hungry caterpillar crawling out one of the apple cores. unfortunately she didn't manage to catch it.

We will be keeping an eye on the fruit trays this week to see if he has been back again. 

We are hoping he is much too full now and we will soon see a butterfly flying around the classroom!