Spring!

Cherry Blossoms made for Spring! Crepe paper used for pink blossoms and branch template coloured in.

Golden Wattles created with yellow crepe paper for the flowers and green paper in the shape of leaves cut and pasted on.

Simple but effective! Spring clouds with rainbow writing "describing" the season of Spring!

First Day Back Term 3

First Day Back Term 3- My school holidays were a "blast"... Children wrote a recount of their holidays on A4 lined paper. I then created a template for a rocket which they cut out and stuck on to make their story look like it was part of the rocket. Streamers were used to give our rockets some extra power!

Kindifarm Art

This term we are learning about animals. To support the children's understanding of farm animals we had a visit from Kindifarm. The children of KA enjoyed feeding, patting and playing with the animals. The sheer enjoyment and excitement on their faces was priceless! I decided to do an art lesson linked to our literacy recount on "The Day Kindifarm Visited Our School". Children painted their favourite animals with water colours and the results were fantastic!

Art: Paper Bag Fun!

Last term my gorgeous class were learning about colours. We created some fantastic, but simple to make paper bag art! The children enjoyed making and designing their art works. They also loved seeing their artworks displayed in the classroom.

Something light hearted

Something light hearted...

From: http://twistedsifter.com/2012/02/top-10-what-my-friends-think-i-do-vs-what-i-actually-do-posters/

Procrastination on Facebook allowed me to discover this poster... I thought it was too good not to share!

 http://imgur.com/gallery/eQ4dzwB another link that made me laugh out loud! I have seen these looks on the faces of my students!

I have one day left of school holidays after a two week break. I am looking forward to seeing my kiddies again and am sure they will have many stories to tell. It will be a challenge getting back into the routine of scheduled morning tea, lunch and toilet breaks... ahh the joys of school life!

About Me

My name is Amanda Steffenson, I have been teaching at Harbord Public School, Sydney, NSW, Australia for the past 8 years. I feel very blessed to be working in such a great school with wonderful children and supportive colleagues.

From my classroom window I can see the sights of the city of Sydney, the green of the surrounding trees and if I listen closely the sounds of the waves crashing on the beach. I work in a special part of the world!

I am very lucky to have such a supportive family in my incredible husband Matthew, my beautiful mum, amazing dad and wonderful sister. Without these people in my life I would not be half the woman I am today.

Teaching is not my job, it is my passion! I love the joy that teaching Kindergarten brings to my life. The ups and downs, the smiles and the tears (and that is just from the teacher, only joking). The sense of achievement and endless joy that I receive when I see my students mastering a new concept is priceless.

If you were to walk a day in my teacher shoes...well, you would be tying a lot of little children's shoe laces, holding a lot of little hands and would be helping to shape a lot of little minds... If you were to wear one of my many teacher hats you would be wearing an educator hat, nurses hat, coaches hat, mentor hat, friend hat, innovator hat, counsellor hat and these hats are from just one daily teacher hat stand... there are many more teacher hats that I wear depending on the moment in time.

I am absurd, preposterous and silly, I say phrases all day that don’t make any sense unless you are five years old. “See ya round like a rissole.” “Are we ready spaghetti?” “You get what you get and you don’t get upset!”

I get excited about stationary, I have a fetish for laminating, I am a sticker giver and like my huge shoe collection at home, I also have a huge collection of stamps at school. I love shopping in cheap shops... not because I am cheap, but like any teacher I LOVE A BARGAIN and you never know when that little something that you buy may come in handy for your classroom.  I enjoy making and creating games and have spent MANY, MANY hours creating Literacy and Mathematics resources...

Kindergarten is the fundamental year of schooling. It is my role to ensure my students achieve their full potential in a happy and safe learning environment.