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On Wednesday, we made Mad Hatter’s Teacups with MGP. After we had washed our hands and set up the tables with all of the ingredients, we got a serviette and sat at our table. To make a teacup we got a Tic Toc biscuit and a marshmallow. We put icing onto the marshmallow and stuck it on the biscuit. Then we stuck a chocolate Freckle on top of the marshmallow. To make the handle we stuck a musk Lifesaver to the side of the marshmallow.

TA DA!!! We have a yummy teacup to eat! Before we could eat it, we needed to draw and label the teacup. FUN!  We were excited becuase we got to eat them.

Bye Bye pretty little teacups!

Last Week in BLC

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As always last week seemed to fly, however we did have quite a few students absent due to a nasty virus that’s going around. We had the ‘Salaka’ West African drumming workshop on Tuesday, which was definitely a highlight. Some of us visited the Riddells Creek Kinder on Friday morning, to get to know a few of the 4 YO children coming to RCPS next year in Prep.

This week we have the 4th Kinder Kapers session on Monday afternoon, which is another opportunity for the kinder children to get to know our school, the students and teachers.

The Book Fair is also happening this week on Thursday and Friday, so we will be visiting it on Wednesday to check out the books and write a ‘Wish List’. Jess Bellingham, an ex-RCPS student, will be completing her first teacher ‘observation’ placement with us in BLC over the next 10 Wednesdays, so please say hello if you are visiting.

This week we are studying the fairy tale ‘The Gingerbread Man’ and will be making our own gingerbread people on Wednesday. We’d love you to come in and help if you could spare some time between 9.00 and 11.00.

100 Days of School

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Last Thursday all the Banksia students celebrated 100 days at school. We participated in lots of different activities relating to the number 100, such as making – a castle with 100 cups, a caterpillar with 100 body segments, a hat with 100 decorations, pictures with 100 fingerprints, badges and magnets celebrating 100 days, posters telling the 100 places we’d like to visit, 100 things we’d like to have and 100 things we would not like to have. We also displayed our special homework for the week and managed to eat 100 M & Ms – delicious!!!

Salaka African Drumming

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We all had fun today watching ‘Salaka’, a West African drumming group perform. The students and teachers got to play the drums and dance to the fantastic African beat. We thought that dancing was the best and that you needed to have very strong hands to drum for a long time.

BLC’s Assembly

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BLC put on a fabulous assembly last Friday afternoon and I’m so glad to hear that many of you were there to watch your children perform. The students were very excited and keen to show what they had learned. All students had a role to play as and these roles will change for the next assembly we do.

Welcome to BLC’s Assembly. – Emily 

 Please stand quietly to sing our National Anthem. – Robert

In Maths, we have been learning the days of the week, the months of the year and the seasons. We would like to show you what we know. Please join in if you know these songs. – Maya S

BLC have been reading Possum Magic by Mem Fox and learning about Australia’s marsupial animals with our buddies in MJF. Could MJF please come up so we can present our posters together? – Ella

YCDI awards – Now we are going to present the YCDI awards. Please save your claps till the end. – Chayla & Charlie, Shaun, Mia, Mitchell, Jasmine, Finn, Dylan M, Dylan W, Chloe, Henry, Mackayla, Kirby, Adam

Birthdays – Could these people please stand up for their birthdays? We are going to sing the fast version of Happy Birthday. One, two …. Frankie

Teacher announcements – Max and Maya M-W – read the announcements. Does any teacher have anything else to add? Miss Ryan could you please come up?

Thank you for listening to our assembly. We hope you have enjoyed it as much as we have. – Adam

 Could the bus students please leave? – Kirby

 Could the parents please wait outside for their children? – Frankie

 Dismiss grades – Mrs C & Dylan M

 

We did it!

 

 

Butter in the making

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We are learning about the letter ‘f’ this week and reading ‘The Farm Concert’ by Joy Cowley. We discovered that butter comes from milk and that the milk in cream can be turned into butter. On Tuesday we made our own butter and spread it onto bread then put 100s and 1000s on top. We all thought it was delicious.

Here’s Henry enjoying his fairy bread