We have been learning about families.  Our own nuclear families, of course are the most important.  We have learned that there are different kinds of families – single parent families, grandparent headed families, extended families and so on.   The most important thing in a family the girls believe is that each member cares about the others.   The girls certainly have a strong sense of family.

We have also focussed on  our ancestry and yesterday the Grade 1s constructed family trees.  They all brought a bottle filled with sand, a branched twig and loads of photographs and bits and pieces to decorate the end product.   They cut out leaves and pasted on labels.  It was an Expo Day so many visitors wandered in and out while all this was going on.

I will let the photographs speak for themselves.

Busy Tree Builders at Work

I am the newest leaf

I need to get to the top branches

Grandparents are the roots

Do you like my tree?

Concentrating carefully on the cutting out

Some strong branches on these trees

I have a great family