Our completed Lego neighbourhood
Today we completed our “neighbourhoodscape” design using Lego and we planned which buildings we will make with junk art, starting from tomorrow. We decided that we would make our school, the recycling depot that we visited last term; the bakery that we also visited last term together with the 
Glass Studio, and the shrine, supermarket, parking lot and some houses. We will make a road like the one that runs past our school which is the same one that we walk along when we go to the park. We loved playing with the Lego neighbourhood and all helped undo the pieces and
pack it away before snack time.
We started making our sheep for the Year of the Sheep. We all scrunched up a piece of paper, rolled yarn/wool around it, added legs, horns, and eyes. Some of our sheep are displayed on our shelf already. It was fun to watch them evolve from a scrunched up piece of paper into something.
We spent some time making patterns with string and beads. We had a large chart with many patterns on it and we could choose which pattern we wanted to make. Daiki and William L spent some time threading their beads and copying patterns here together with Liezel. Some of us enjoyed threading beads without looking at the patterns too.
As you can see, some of us like to come to work at activities, dressed in clothes 
from our dress up corner. Sometimes we wear the dress up clothes even when it is snack time. We really love the freedom that our teachers give us to dress up, and be whoever we want to be. All the clothes are for everyone to use and dress up in. In fact, our high heel, Cinderella slippers were so well used, the one actually broke in half the other day. So now we only have one “glass slipper”, 
one pair of high heels and one pair of fluffy prince/princess slippers.
We are all very into making houses with Lego and blocks. Here you can see we went from the table with the Lego neighbourhoodscape, to the carpet to build another house and building. This house was a well equipped house because there was a toilet, bathtub, basin, mirrors, table, beds and many other accessories. We arranged them into their different rooms and we even found a block with an unusual looking telephone on it. Shelley grew up with these kinds of telephones but most of us have never seen them before. 
We only know iPhones!
During the morning, in our circle time, we said “yes” when our teachers called our names and we counted consecutively around our circle. We counted nine children at school today and then we took out some blocks to represent each one of us. Shelley told us a story using the blocks so that we could learn some simple subtraction. She used all 
of us in the story and she spoke about some of us going to the park. Five children went to the park, and the rest stayed at school so how many were at school. We counted the blocks and four were staying at school. We did this a few times and then she said that everyone went to the park, so how many children were left at school? Vincent made a circle with his fingers and said: “Zero”.
When we were having snack time today we were amazed because Shelley had a giant sized strawberry. When you looked at it, it looked like it was a few strawberries joined together. Hisami said she had never seen one like it, so she took a picture. We also had never seen such a huge one before. Shelley said that it was sooooo sweet and delicious.
Hisami read us one of our Big Books called “Head to Toe”. It was all about animals and the different things that they can do e. g. the monkey can wiggle his arm and the cat can arch its back. We tried to do some of the movements. After rest time when some of us were awake, we went to the tables and did some quite difficult puzzles. All of them had pictures of trains on them and we were very happy when we had completed them.
Love always Shelley, Hisami and Liezel