Kambarang is a colourful time in the bush and school grounds. 

The colours are also blooming in Class 3 with more of our crochet cushions popping up each week.

Treasure jars and hand felted necklaces for the craft stall are gathering on the shelves in anticipation of the upcoming Spring Fair, along with dreams of maypole ribbons.

We used Noongar symbols to record stories and observations of the season of Kambarang using beeswax crayons and watercolour paints.  All year we have been experimenting and building bush shelters.  Now we have made small models of some of the structures we found worked well with modelling beeswax and bush materials.

With the wildflowers and birds to observe in our bush afternoon space, and the longer days changing rhythm,  we have written free verse poems about what the season means to us.  We have included a few of our poems in the photos.  We also enjoy reciting our class verse all together.

Kambarang, Kambarang, the days are growing

Wildflowers, wildflowers, dancing everywhere

Careful, careful!  There may be snakes on the track

Listen, listen! Baby birds are calling from their nests

Watch out, watch out! Magpie's swoop and clack

Splish and splash, it might be time to go in for a dip.

Our Grammar main lesson is full of colourful characters and their mixed up antics.

King Noun names all things, while Queen Adjectiva describes their qualities.  General Verb likes action and keeps note of what everything is doing.  The Princess of Articles - Princess Anthea, has a special affinity with the words 'an', 'the', and 'a'.  While Little Adverb, who is General Verb’s son, likes to extend his fathers observations of what things are doing by describing the way they are doing it. 

There has been the Mystery of the Scrolls in Punctuation Place and many a mixed up conversation put right as part of our saga: Adventures on Grammar Island.  But the most fun is role playing the characters as they name and describe the things going on around them, putting all the parts of speech in the right places. 

I am King Noun, I name all things, like plants and animals and birds with wings,

Anything that has a name is named by me in the naming game.

I’m Queen Adjectiva, I say how things are - a powerful ocean, a golden star,

Colours bright or a scratchy feel, I let you know how things are - for real.

I am General Verb, I like to act, to walk, to run, to dance, it’s a fact,

To plow, to work, to build, to strive, I like to feel that I’m alive.