Mini Buddies

As a lead up to Bookweek celebrations we read The Pros and Cons of being a Frog by Sue deGennaro.

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We really enjoyed the story – it talked about being good friends, accepting people’s differences, how friends understand each other and respect their differences and we thought the illustrations really added lots of detail to the story.

Then we made our own frogs with our mini buddies. We love working with our mini buddies. We helped them with cutting, sticking legs on, folding a concertina fold and adding eyes.

It’s wonderful to see the children in our Year 2/3 class being such positive leaders. They show a very kind and caring approach towards the younger children and really love to help them in their learning.

Here’s some photos of our very busy session.

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We’re BIG Buddies!

This term our new Reception class started with 13 new students. Our class has become their buddy class and we just LOVE being big buddies for younger students in our school.

Today we met our buddies for the first time. We worked out our groups and read the Receptions some picture books. We also discussed how we would need to help our mini buddies. Here’s a list of some of our ideas:

  • be kind and caring with our buddies
  • play games with them in the yard
  • show them back to their classroom if they’re lost
  • be positive role models – show them how to behave and use our best manners
  • be responsible
  • do classroom activities with them each week.

Here’s some photos from today’s session where we read picture books with our mini buddies.
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