Book Character -dress up day

Hi

On Friday we all dressed up as our favourite book character.  Have a look at these videos and the one below on the fraction fun we had.  (No better way to emphasize the importance of halves being equal than with food)

Fractions

Today being the last day of term - we had some fun with fractions. You will also notice the book character day clothing.  I will have a separate post about this shortly.

SHAKE DOWN!!!!

On Wednesday we joined in the drill for what to do in the event of an earthquake.  What you see here is us practising, not the actual drill (where I hid as well)  

I was impressed with the quiet and serious way in which all the students participated.  Have a look at the drop cover, hold.  Well done Room 9!!!!!

Swallows......

Can you keep a secret?  Room 10 has a swallow nesting in its cloak bay.  While there is  little bit of a problem  of the mess the mother is likely to make, we think this is outweighed by the learning opportunities such an experience can provide. When we went to have a look at the intricately made mud nest, we were thrilled to have the mother swallow over our heads  back into her nest.  Today we did some great writing from this.  Here are some examples of my favourite parts.  Our focus with this was using interesting verbs.


The little swallows said," I want my dinner!" The Mum swallow rushed to get the baby swallows some food.  She twirled and flipped and spun through the clouds.
By Samantha


The swallow is sitting on her eggs. Out of the nest, she does swirl and twirl all around.  By Alicia


The swallow flies fast through the loop the loop. Flip, the swallow flips again.  The swallow dances in the air.  By Sophie

The swallow spins, swirls turns and back flips in the air.  Straight down it goes.  Finally it flies back up to the sky.  By Joshua


The swallow twists and turns and makes a circle in the air.    By  Dylan P


The  swallow darts left and right. It swirls and twirls, flits and flips, turns and twists and loops the loop.
By Hollie

The swallow Mum swirls and twirls.  Then it turns left and right. It brings back food to the baby swallows.  It swoops in the clouds.  By Keelyn

It swirls and twirls.  It flies out of sight.  It twirls away.  She dives down and back to her nest where she has a sleep.  By Jaime

Writing snipits

I think we should not have ducks in school.  They poo and wee in our school.  People step in it.  Yuck! 
By Kyrus


I don't think we should have ducks in school.  Firstly, some of us chase the ducks in school.  If kids chase the ducks, the ducks might die. By William

I think we should not have ducks at school. The children will give the ducks their food and the children will starve.
By Katy

Our Worm Farm