Mel and I decided that to round off the term we would organize an activity based outing to Botanical gardens. This we centered around the vowel section of the THRASS chart. We had done something similar in previous years but with a little more brainstorming we came up with some new ideas. We had some mums who offered to be facilitators .......thank you so much mums - we could never have done this without you! So armed with pencils and a packet of 'goodies' each group headed off to investigate the park!
They had to look at the map and follow directions to various gardens within the park ......
They had to feed bread to the ducks........
and lo and behold who should come up but a ......
.....TURTLE! There was such excitement!
Then a heron arrived to catch the fish that were feeding off the bread!
The children had to find the name of 3 trees and of course the boys couldn't resist.....
....... CLIMBING! Hopefully they also found the Eucalyptus tree as well as other interestingly named trees.
The highlight for most of the groups was going to the Orchard house and using a coin( which I had forgotten to put in the packet but thank you mums for coming to rescue!) to make a wish.
After two hours of exploring the children came back tired, hot and hungry but after their treat on a tray from the teacher they were back to full spirits!
They all sat on their blankets and had lunch and a rest.
But it was not long before they were off for 'free' time .......
Thank you Mums for a wonderful outing! If any of you have more photos to add please email them to me and I will be happy to post them.
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