Bollywood Dancing

Today, the students at MPS dressed up in Indian colours and clothing to celebrate and consolidate all of the learning that we have done this semester in Asian Studies. The Grade 1 & 2 students put together an amazing Indian themed assembly that included their own Bollywood music video and at the end of the assembly, all of the students, parents and teachers danced together to the song. See below!

Indian Prep Parade

Bollywood Dancing

The Festival of Lights - Diwali

This Semester, the Preps have been learning about India. Late last term we made candle holders in preparation for celebrating Diwali.

Today, we will be celebrating Diwali, as it falls on this date for 2014.  It is the Hindu New Year and is either a 3-day or 5-day holiday depending on where you come from.

It is a very exciting and colourful holiday. Homes are cleaned to welcome the New Year and windows are opened so that the Hindu goddess of wealth, Lakshmi, can enter. It is believed that she cannot enter a house which is not lit up, so every household burns special Diwali clay lamps (diyas) to light the way for the goddess, which is why the holiday is also known as the Festival of Lights.

The Preps will be taking home their candles and candle holders tonight, we are hoping that families will light their candle and if possible take a picture and either email or give us a copy to put onto the blog.

The Prep Team

Book Week Celebration: Dress Up Day

Last week, the students participated in numerous Book Week activities. One of these was dressing up as their favourite character from a story for assembly. We were so impressed with all of the different characters that we meet, including the Saucepan Man, Iron Man, Wally, Mr Twit and Harry Potter to name a few. 

Below you will find some gorgeous pictures of the students and also a picture of the teachers all dressed as Alice in Wonderland characters.

The students then used this experience as a stimulus for their writing.

 

The Preps

100 Days of School Continued

As promised, below you will find some photos from our 100 days of school celebration. 

Throughout the day, the Preps participated in 100 themed activities

 Building a 100 cup structure

Collecting 100 smiles

Building a town using 100 lego pieces

The Preps then iced the cake

Then it was time to eat the cake!

The Preps