Stop, Drop, Cover and Roll! The Firefighters Are Here!

Last week, we were lucky enough to have the firefighters come back to show us their truck!

The Preps learnt about the different parts of a fire truck, including the most exciting of all, the hose!

The Preps all had a turn at spraying the water, and boy were they excited!

 

Next, the Preps went inside the truck and sat in the firefighters seats.

We had so much fun learning about firefighters!

 

 The Preps

Jobs: Police Officers

On Monday, the Preps had a special visitor come to our classroom to talk to us about her job. Jo talked to us about her duties, equipment, uniform and how she helps keep our community safe. We learnt lots of different facts and we will be using them in our writing this week. Below you will find pictures from the visit and the Preps excitement is evident, they had so much fun learning about police officers!

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Thank you Jo and the Brunswick Police Station for helping us learn about their special job!

The Preps

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!

Our integrated topic for Term 3 will focus on jobs in our community. This unit of work aims to assist students with understanding peoples roles in society i.e. everybody has a role, and without them things wouldn't work properly. Also, students will be focusing on the concept of responsibility, i.e. if a job doesn’t get done, things go wrong. 

Students will explore this topic through being responsible of their own classroom jobs, role play during developmental play, writing about special visitors and reading information texts.

Yesterday, we had our first special visitor come in to talk about their job. To prepare for this we discussed how to be a good audience and made a list of useful questions to ask in order to ensure that we could learn some facts to write about.

Next, our special visitor come into our room. It was Daniel (the schools IT specialist) and he discussed many things, such as what he does at work and how he fixes our technology.

In small groups, students then went to see Daniels display, which included: ipads, laptops, desktop computers, video players and parts of computers.

Some students were able to go into the server room (also know as the 'secret room') to see Daniels work space and the equipment he uses to fix the computers.

If you have an interesting and hands on job that you would like the students to learn about, please send us an email (morelandprimarypreps@gmail.com) and we can organise a time for you to come and visit.

The Prep Team