This term, during our integrated studies program (MAPPEN), we are learning all about how living things change (before / after). To help us observe changes to living things, we planted strawberries, lettuce, rocket, rainbow silver beet and kale seeds in our MPPS garden beds. We cannot wait to watch and document our seeds growth/changes over the course of Term 2 and 3.

Our Buddies Program is held once a week and involves students in Year 6 and Prep. 
Each prep child is paired with a grade 6 child and they participate in a range of activities such as sport activities, outdoor games, craft activities and using technology.
The aims of the Buddies Program are to:

• Ease the transition into primary school for the prep children by providing them with a safe, reliable and positive buddy
• Develop leadership skills amongst the Year 6 students
• Foster a strong sense of school spirit across the school
• Enhance the school culture of looking after and caring for others around us

Our Buddies Program began on Friday 6th May. Take a look at the Preps meeting their Grade 6 Buddy for the first time. 

Can you guess which special visitor left us goodies in PLC?

We have been learning how to name and celebrate our personal strengths such as HELPFUL, KIND, PATIENT, BRAVE, NEAT, HARDWORKING and FRIENDLY. We displayed our personal strengths on our celebration tree. 

As a part of our mathematics program, the preps thoroughly enjoyed learning how to ask and answer yes / no questions by practising surveying their peers and tallying and displaying their results on simple graphs using unifix blocks. 

We created play-dough family portraits to represent the different families in PLC. We used interesting describing words to write a sentence about our family.