What a wonderful Week 4 we have had in Foundation. We have spent the week consolidating our learning of the four seasons through both of our Literacy and Knowledge classes.

We have been head down bum up within our Writing and Numeracy lessons, focusing on embedding parts of a sentence and then writing them into our books, and learning about fluency in maths and subtraction. It’s been a busy week, but a week filled with smiles and pride!

In Grade 2, we have been diving deeper into our knowledge unit. As a class we have been looking at the lifecycle of a frog and the lifecycle of a butterfly. Students have learnt that animals can go through a process of transformation called metamorphosis. In the life cycle of a frog, hundreds of jelly-like eggs are laid. Inside the eggs small tadpoles begin to form. They grow heads and tails and develop gills that help them breathe underwater.

Soon after they emerge from the egg and swim around the pond or stream looking for food. Quickly they grow legs and lungs. Their gills eventually disappear and so does their tail. This is when they take on the form of the frog, the process is complete and the cycle of a frog can begin again.

Over the last few weeks, we have been writing descriptive pieces about bushfires.
Here is Tom’s take on what a bushfire looks, smells, tastes and sounds like.

Bushfires
We all know bushfires are destructive and bad, but what would it feel like to be in one? Would you run? Hide? Escape? How would you feel? Here’s what I think it might smell, sound, taste and look like…

In the midst of a raging fire you might see the sky, now dark as coal, with hot ask raining down. The fire might be giant and glowing, a spectacular sight (although not a good one)! Firefighters run and clear some flames, risking their lives to save others. Then your eyes might start to sting from all the smoke so you close your eyes and listen…

During a bushfire you might hear branches off trees fall and hit the ground very hard. The crackle of strong flames charring and burning any tree in sight. The fire engines, ambulances and police cars all have a combined loud siren sound. It’s so loud so you cover your ears and just try to breathe through your nose.

The amount of smoke inhaled is far too much more than anyone should inhale. The air smells so thick it’s surprising you can smell anything through this. It smells bad, dust, soot and ash, it hurts; in fact you might feel like passing out because of how overwhelming it is.

In summary, bushfires aren’t very nice, they are painful and reap sorrow. This might be what you feel in a bushfire. It might be worse, it might be better but probably not. Overall bushfires aren’t good.