EOTC

Hi

We had a great time at EOTC (despite the weather) Many thanks to the parents and grandparents that helped with the trip and Jacinda Prattley who took these photos.  I will post some more pictures from this week soon.

Dance

Hi  - today is Room 9s celebration.  We have been working really hard on our dance "Where the wild Things are" f you are not lucky enough to make the dance in person.  Here is a clip from our dress rehearsal.

Athletics

Thanks I now have all the forms back.

Remember your colours for tomorrow

Surname A- G  - wear green
Surname H -Q wear yellow
Surname R- Z wear white

Please remember drink bottle, hat, packed lunch and morning tea.  They are selling food and drink there so bring some money if you wish.

Thanks
Ms G.

Athletics Day

Hi - these are the permission forms I have had so far

Bailey Smith
Dylan Adam
Katy Gribble
Jayden Thompson
Jackson Wills
Elisa Prattley
Dylan P
Hollie Raven
Keelyn Veitch
Jaime Sanderson
Joshua Emmerson
Kyrus Dowling

It is possible that your permission slip might have been sent in with an older brother or sister.  I am checking with other teachers today.  If this is not the case please return slips ASAP.

Thanks!

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

Hedgehog fun! I promised this group that they could have a turn making these when they reached this level.  Well done.  This was fun.

Today Room 9 had a morning of music and dance with Mrs Francis.  They had a great time.  While they were doing that Ms Groome was catching up on some of her reading assessments. Have a look at this video.

Reading and Drama

Quite often, we will try to include a bit of drama as part of our reading rotation.  This includes reading something with expression and acting it out.  When we have the bloggie, it is great to video.  While I videoed this one, the children also had the opportunity to have a turn videoing as well.

As we had looked at writing around the fireworks during the closing ceremony of the Olympics, this was an ideal opportunity to act out something on fireworks. .

More photos from Ambury

Thanks to Hollie's Mum for sending these in

Hi - Just a reminder, it is now time to send in your 'Yummy stickers'.  They are going to have an initial count up and let us know who is in the lead.  Thanks

Ambury photos

Hi all - have a look at the photos and video below.

Milking the cow with Loche

The soft (clean) wool

Keelyn finds a use for her gumboots

The self guided walk

Loche explains that we must keep an eye on our parents so they don't wander off.

The friendly goats

Ambury Farm

We ready ourselves for the chickens pecking on our hands.


The real thing! Feeding the chickens.

We're going on a snail hunt......

Hi

We had a look again at the garden we had been allocated  today and decided there was an unused one in a better sunny position.  So we began the process of digging and transplanting our silver beet again. We are now next to Room 8's  and Mrs Notley beautiful silver beet.  We promise Mrs Notley, that our snails (discussed below) were not released anywhere near your plants.  It did not even cross our minds.

We relocated our garden.  Joshua pulls out a piece of unwanted grass.

As part of our Inquiry and looking at gardens and pests today we looked at snails. We did some writing on this.  (I will post these soon) 

Let the snail hunt begin. 

Hi - I have been a bit slow in putting this on.  This is something we did at the end of last term with one of the reading groups.  We all enjoyed eating the outcome of this experience.

Writing

Hi - Here are some more stories from our recent work

Dad
My dad calls me 'Poppet'. We like to feed the ducks.  We laugh when they get water in their eyes.  Dad looks like he has a little bit of hair but he has a lot of hair.  He goes to work and he wears a light blue  tee-shirt.  It has patterns and they are grey.
By Elisa


In the Frost
My dog has got snow on his nose.  The grass is frosty.  It is covered in ice. The flowers are icy and frosty.  
By Keelyn


Scarface Claw
Scarface Claw is fat.  He has little legs.  He likes to fight with the dogs.  His little whiskers twitch.
By Bailey


Skipper
Skipper has curly hair on his tummy.  It is very soft.  He chases the birds.  The birds fly faster.  The family keeps Skipper outside but when it is rainy they say "Inside Skipper!"  
By Samantha


Dad
My dad calls me 'Monkey' because I am a monkey.  I swing from bar to bar. I slip and my dad catches me.  My dad lifts me back to the monkey bars. He has brown hair and brown eyes.
By Katy

Descriptive Writing

Hi! I have been really pleased with the writing in our class this week.  The focus with most of the children shown in these videos has been to give more detail - so rather than just giving one sentence about an idea  - to elaborate and give some more information.  There has also been some lovely vocabulary coming through.  Will post some other ones soon.  WELL DONE Room 9!

Drama

As I mentioned we have been doing some drama in Room 9.  Here is a video of the children acting out a story where elephants travel through a jungle - meeting a few dangers along the way (including some crocodiles that would not stay in their river!)  It is very hard to listen to the sound of your voice.  Next time I will get one of our skilled readers to read out the story!

Road Safety

Last week  we were lucky enough to have a visit from Constable Glenys.  It never hurts to have the road safety message reinforced by some one else (especially a police officer).  The children really enjoyed having the Constable in,  and participating in these activities.  

It is great to see how children build on each other's ideas. At the start of our conversation (see video milk below) most of the children shared ideas about farmers hand milking cows and bottling the milk for the supermarkets.  At the end, see the video here, we had discussed the milk truck and the machines that suck the milk from cows.

Milk

Hi - We have had a fun start to our study on milk.  We have made ice cream and we have looked at the differences between different types of milk - cream, low fat, standard and condensed milk.  Today the children shared their ideas about where milk comes from and how it gets to us.  Have a look at these videos.

Hi there - here is the second bloggie video on us juicing fruit. Enjoy!

Juicer upgrade!

A HUGE thanks to Brooke's parents who brought in a juicer for us to borrow and a lot of fruit for us to squeeze.  We have been looking at how it is important to drink water to help us learn.  As a wider off-shoot we have been looking at where else we can find water and how much water (found in juice) we can find in fruits.  Have a look at our video below.  We had so much fun this afternoon!!!

There is more to come  - here is the first video

Cross Country practice

Hi there!

Today as part of our Inquiry  - we looked at how much juice (and water within the juice) we could find within some different fruit.  Tangelos had the most from what we looked at today.  Thanks to those of you who did some research on this as part of your homefun (Katy told us all about cucumber today.  It was great!)

Well we had a beautiful Autumn day today for Cross Country practice.  There was really some heat in the sun.  Have a look at these pictures.

Go for it Ethan! Look at the determination here.

Kyrus gets a helping hand from sister Chloe.

Brooke and Jaime 

Hollie has had enough!

Katy - still smiling!

Go Samantha go!!!

More writing....

Hi - Fantastic work Room 9! Here are a few more.  We have had a few technical glitches (as they say!) Kyrus talked about the goal he has with his learning but then could not find his story.  When Brooke read hers out she meant to say she has been working on recording at least 2 sounds for each word.  You will see that she is writing a lot more than 2 words!!!!   A big 'thanks' for all of your comments on the blog.  We all really appreciate them.

Reflecting on our learning

Hi all - It was great to see many of you at the goal setting conferences.  Your involvement really is key to in helping the children achieve these.  My goal is to get children reflecting on what they have been learning and recording their stories on photo booth.  These two did this independently.  Well done Jaime and Hollie!

Writing

We have all been practising being more independent with our writing.  There are a number of ability levels in the class.  Some children are working on recording the starting sound of words (as they become familiar with these sounds) others are working on recording all of the dominant sounds.  Have a look at these videos!

Water Wonderland

Today we looked at the blog as a class.  Room 9 loved looking at the comments you have made.  Today we also had our water day.  Miss Groome learnt a valuable lesson about water balloons - don't try to fill them.  I was very wet before our water day event began.  Thanks to Elisa's Mum for coming to my rescue (she is  water balloon expert if ever you need one) and the other parents that helped out today.  I was really impressed with how quickly children got changed and managed themselves.  Fantastic!

Warming up with Miss Harland

Run Kyrus! Kyrus steals one of the eagles eggs.

Dylan retrieve one of the balls 'eggs' from under the sprinkler.  Below Brooke and Jayden run.

William and Jaime brave the sprinkler

A wet Hollie

Below:Sprinkler Fun

A wet Katy

Mrs Gregory and bubble fun.

Non Stop Cricket

 Sophie gets ready for a big hit

This afternoon we had a game of non -stop cricket.  This was organised and run by the senior classes.  They did a great job.  Here are some of the pictures form this fun event.  The fielding effort was rather funny to watch.  Room 9 spent quite a bit of time 'working out' who would take/throw the ball in from the field.  The understanding of working as a team is not quite there yet.



Below a little discussion about who will return the ball......



                             

Katy braces herself.

Jaime gets a helping hand

A good run from Dylan gets a pat on the head.

Use two hands Jayden!

An intense moment in the field.

"No help thanks! I can do this on my own."
Great effort Brooke.