Week 3 Term 2 2014

Thank you so much to Mr Bethell and Mr Hale ,who dug our gardens over on Friday.We are a step closer to getting our garden project underway!

We also have started talking about our "Learn to read...read to learn" unit about Pirates!
This week our focus was on starting our wall display and then about precise nouns about pirate ships. We have already learned lots of new words that we can use when describing pirate ships and this will help our future learning. Our display is not quite finished but we are on the way...

Week 2 Term 2 2014

Welcome back.We hope everyone had a great holiday.

During the past 2 weeks we have been talking about the gardens outside Rooms 7 and 8. We are allowed to plant them ,so we have been deciding what we need to have and what the needs of the plants might be.                     We have made a list to take up to Zak's dad, at his nursery. Next week we are hoping to dig the gardens out, replace the rubbish soil with good soil that we are getting from Hayley's dad, and then we can select our plants. Some of the parents gave us some succulents  so we have planted them in a temporary home until we can put them in other gardens around the school.

In the meantime we drew our "dream" gardens.Here are some of our dream gardens that are on display in our foyer.

Week 10 Term 1

This week Room 8 has been practising learning by looking, by listening and by doing.
Mrs Finucane gave us a problem...how to make a kite out of paper

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    We had to work together to think about what we already knew, to do some research to find some plans, and then to decide which ones might work.We found out that we might have to make some modifications as we made our plans, and then we got to test them! 


Unfortunately the weather didn't co-operate, so we had to make our own wind...
by running!

Week 9 Term 1

This week we have been finishing our work on "I am different".                                                   
We also completed our final "Star of the Day" chart.
Each day one student was selected to be the star of the day and as a class we wrote a statement about each star and how they act and the things they do at school.Each star then took their poster home and their family also wrote about what they were like at home.            
We learned lots about each other, and the children are very proud of their charts.

Mrs Spencer has also been very busy working with the class and the children have made  some fantastic pictures of Harold,from Life Education.They make our classroom look fantastic!

Week 8 Term 1

This week we had a second session with Shelly and Harold from Life Education.
We were looking at the things that we all have to survive, like our organs, and the things that make us different, like our personality.  
We made some reversible people to demonstrate the important parts of our "insides" and our fantastic "outsides" which make us special and unique!

Harold taught us a song about  "Personality" and the chorus goes:

PERSONALITY, PERSONALITY
That's what makes you, you
And that's what makes me, me
PERSONALITY, we're as different as can be
And the thing that makes you special

Is your PERSONALITY.

Week 7 Term 1

This week we had our first visit with Shelley and Harold from Life Education.
Our theme is "I am different", and we are looking at how all of us are special and unique. 
We wrote a poem together about what we have found out so far, and we made zig zag people to show how we are all different.

I am different.
I am special,I am unique,
There is nobody else like me!
I have my own tongue patterns, DNA,eyes and fingerprints.
There is only one of me.
I am a superstar!
By Room 8

Week 6 Term 1

Mrs Finucane has been reading chapter books to us and at the end of this week we had finished 2!

We really liked the Great Bamboozle,by Joy Cowley. We wrote about our favourite parts of the story and made illustrations to go with our writing.





The story is about Grizelda, who is a pirate that nobody likes, and how the Mayor and the pirates of the town try to trick her into missing out on the Great Bamboozle.
She finds out and declares war on the town!

The book had lots of funny parts and a great twist at the end!