The Grade 1 children have been really busy over the last few weeks! Here is a compilation of some of our super work.
A Matter of Fact!
15 May, 2007 Leave a Comment
The Kindergarteners are currently exploring the topics of ‘Under the Sea’ and ‘Growth’.
Last week we looked at information books to find out some facts about crabs. We found out that crabs have hard shells and strong claws, they like to hide under rocks and they grow a new shell if their shell falls off. We each tried to remember some of the facts about crabs and wrote them down.
Please come into our classroom to see our display and read some of the facts we have written!
Read on to see some more of our work about ‘Under the Sea’ and ‘Growth’.
An exciting start to the final term!
9 May, 2007 Leave a Comment
Our final term this year is proving to be just as exciting, if not more so, than the first two. Already we have had two fantastic Sports Days, trips out of school, visitors into school and the swimming season has started!
With lots more to come, click on the newsletter below to find out more details about what the teachers have planned for the children.
jr-kindergarten.pdf            grade-1.pdf          grade-2.pdf                grade-3.pdf           grade-4-5.pdf          grade-6.pdf
See How We Grow
9 May, 2007 Leave a Comment
The Toddlers have been learning all about the spring and discovering what plants, animals and insects need to blossom and grow. We read a story about children who made house from sunflowers and played in it until the flowers tumbled down and the children collected seeds to plant again the following spring. They then had a go at planting their own sunflowers and learnt that they need water and light in order to grow.
Spring is Here!
8 May, 2007 Leave a Comment
The Pre-schoolers came ‘springing’ back to class very excitedly after their Easter Holiday. Well, it’s Spring and they were pleased when they saw all the pretty colours of paint ready for handprints.
As if by magic, their handprints become a beautiful flower garden! Isn’t it amazing to see what these little hands can do? We have done several activities over the few weeks linked to out topic of ‘Growing Things’.
Sports’ Day – Grades 1 – 6
26 April, 2007 4 Comments
Following on from the highly successful Kindergarten Sports’ Day, Grades 1 to 6 had their annual Sports’ Day at 4.00pm this afternoon. The children arrived at the Football Field wearing their team colours and competed against each other demonstrating a wide range of skills and a lot of stamina!
 
Sports’ Day – Kindergarten
26 April, 2007 1 Comment
On Thursday 26th April, Kindergarten, JK, Pre-K and Toddlers went to the soccer field to hold their annual Sports’ Day. Most parents and the rest of the school came to watch and support – loudly! We were highly entertained by circle games (with super singing), relay races with puppets and other objects, relay races to ‘make a rainbow’, races balancing beanbags on bats and skipping.
  
 
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Most importantly: EVERYONE had a FANTASTIC time!
100 Today!
25 April, 2007 Leave a Comment
As this is our 100th Blog Entry, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the teachers and children for the WONDERFUL entries they have done so far.
I have really enjoyed reading and looking at all the fantastic things that you have been doing in school. It makes me feel proud to be a part of something so great. We are very fortunate to have such a special group of people at our school who work so closely together to provide such a stimulating environment for our children to grow.
Well done everyone and continue to make this such a happy place to be and please continue with THE AMAZING BLOGGING!
Brand new interactive technology
25 April, 2007 1 Comment
Children at our school now have a brand new learning tool. The school has just installed an interactive whiteboard in the ICT Suite. The special board, linked to a presenter and its own sophisticated software, enables children to interact with it directly rather than through a computer keyboard. This brings a whole new aspect to the children’s learning.
The software also includes a vast array of resources covering all National Curriculum subjects and much, much more.
This is the first interactive board in the Turks and Caicos Islands and we are proud to be bringing the best resources possible to our children. Look out for more exciting information showing how the children are using it.
Grade 3 – Moving Monsters
13 April, 2007 2 Comments
At the end of last term, the Grade 3’s completed their Design Technology models of ‘Moving Monsters’. This unit focused on developing the children’s understanding of control through investigating simple pneumatic systems. We chose to make dragons as we had been reading lots of stories about dragons in our Literacy work. Click on the movie below to see one of our dragons in action.
[qt:/movies/g3dragon7310307.mov 320 256] See more photo in our slideshow
Want to see more of our dragon movies? Then click on and also learn about the pneumatic systems that help to control them.
Friendly Bacteria
1 April, 2007 Leave a Comment
Micro-organisms are small (very small) living organisms that like the same things as we do: oxygen, moisture, food and an even temperature. Micro-organisms exist everywhere: some are harmful and even dangerous, some cause no problems and even help us (for instance in our digestive tracts).
We were looking at ‘friendly’ bacteria like yogurt and yeast. We investigated the effect of yeast when making bread. We made 6 different sets of bread rolls – ranging from having no yeast to too much yeast – and observed the effect. As you can see, the amount of yeast made a significant difference.
Easter Eggs and Bunnies
30 March, 2007 Leave a Comment
The toddlers have been eagerly looking forward to a visit from the Easter Bunny. Take a look at some of the Easter crafts that we have enjoyed…
 
Grade 4/5…Take A Seat!
28 March, 2007 1 Comment
Can you Make a Chair out of Newspaper?
21 March, 2007 5 Comments
Whilst some of the children in Grades 3-5 were out of school competing in the Inter-Schools Athletics, the rest of the Grades 3-5 joined together to work on a fun problem solving activity. Supplied with only a small pile of newspapers and a roll of tape, they were set the challenge – ‘Can you design and make a chair that will support your weight?’
See a slideshow of us working on our project.
Take a closer look at the science behind this project and learn more about how we tackled this seemingly impossible structural task …
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Wonderful Weaving!
20 March, 2007 2 Comments
Our Art and Design topic in Grade 1 for this half term is Materials. As part of this topic we have been weaving. We started by practising our skills and producing paper weavings. Click here to see our paper weavings and to see how we progressed to the next step. [Read more…]
Foam Fun!
20 March, 2007 1 Comment
Last week the Kindergarten Class got very messy when they experimented with writing in shaving foam. As well as getting foam everywhere, including hair, noses and t-shirts, they did all manage to complete the task of writing their names in the foam…
Friendly Soccer
19 March, 2007 Leave a Comment
After school today (Monday) 14 children from Grades 4/5 and 6 made up 2 teams to play soccer against teams from Ashcroft School. Each team played 2 games and seemed to have lots of fun! The final scores were as follows:
Ashcroft ‘A’Â – 2 Â Provo Primary ‘B’ – 0
Provo Primary ‘A’ – 5Â Ashcroft ‘B’ – 0
Ashcroft ‘B’ – 0Â Â Provo Primary ‘B’ – 4
Provo Primary ‘A’Â – 0Â Â Ashcroft ‘A’Â – 0 (2-1 after penalties)Â
 
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All the Fun of the Fair! (Part 2)
17 March, 2007 Leave a Comment
Having now had enough time to complete our rides, we thought you might like to see 3 of the finished, working models.
Each ride includes a video, so they make take a few minutes to upload to your computer, please be patient!
Friday Recipe Fun!
15 March, 2007 1 Comment
Every Friday during small group time, the Jr Ks follow recipes together. They have created foods such as berry ices, smoothies, cookies and sandwiches, and crafts such as playdough and salt dough sculptures. Click below see pictures of how the children worked together to create these fabulous recipes.
Run, run, as fast as you can
14 March, 2007 Leave a Comment
Run, run, as fast as you can, you can’t catch me I’m the gingerbread man…
This term the Toddlers have had great fun listening to lots of stories, one of their favourite’s was the tale of the little gingerbread boy.
After reading the story the Toddlers had a go at decorating and eating their own gingerbread men. We also had a go at making gingerbread men from playdough. Take a look at how we got on.
Book Swapping
9 March, 2007 1 Comment
More Book Buddies at Provo Primary School
9 March, 2007 Leave a Comment
Yesterday, the Grade 1 and 3 got together to share and read books together. The Grade 3s read popular picture books to the Grade 1s and in return, the Grade 1s read their reading books to them. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves and are looking forward to our next reading buddy time.
Click here to see more pictures and to read comments that the children made…
Book Buddies
8 March, 2007 1 Comment
Ello ello ello!
8 March, 2007 1 Comment
Last week we had a visit from Inspector Duncan, don’t worry the children weren’t in trouble! [Read more…]
Let me tell you a story . . .
8 March, 2007 Leave a Comment
Our highly successful Book Week continued tonight when the children returned to school at 5.00pm dressed in their nightclothes and clutching their cuddlies to hear some stories.
