Term 1 Week 11

We have made it to the end of term!  It has been a very busy but fun filled term.  The children have already shown themselves to be great learners and I am really looking forward to next term.

 

 

Here are a few photos from our last week of term 1.

 

 

At the end of last week our buddies came armed with counting activities to help us practice our counting.  Thanks Year 5's we had lots of fun counting.

 

 

 

This week we learnt about the letter c.

 



 We covered our c with cotton wool balls.

We climbed.

We collaged with crepe paper.

We built castles.

 

 

We found out who was the tallest and the shortest person in our class by standing people next to each other so we could see who was taller or shorter.

 
We discovered that you need to make sure both people are standing on the same level or one will look taller than the other...even if they aren't.

Then we got into groups of 3 and tried putting ourselves in order from the shortest to the tallest.



 

 

Then we tried comparing pencils to find the shortest and tallest.  It was important to make sure they both started from the same spot.

 

 

We are filling Grandma's basket with some healthy food.

 

 

 

Today was Good Shepherd day and we had a day filled with lots of fantastic activities.

 

First we rode the bus down to Church for a special mass.

 

 

Then we listend to Mrs C and Mr B tell us the story and history of our school.

 

Then we had to create an artwork that represented our school.

Then we walked to a park where Mr B told us some more stories of the people who first came to live in our area.

After lunch with our buddies we had tabloid sports.  We had sack races, hurdle races and egg and spoon races.

 

 

It was a fantastic day and I am sure we will all be sleeping well tonight.

 

Have a safe and happy holiday and we will see you all in term 2.

Term 1 Week 9 and 10

As Week 9 was such a short week-only 2 days, we decided to put week 9 and 10 together.

We visited Ward House so we could have a go on the ipads.  We discovered lots of fun apps.  We are very good at closing down apps by 'scrunching' the screen.

We made crowns with Signora Leeder.  She teaches us Italian.

We had our 40th day of school.  Zero the Hero must think we are getting better at counting because he keeps bringing us bigger numbers to count.  This time we tried counting in groups of ten so we didn't lose count.

We used the iPads to make a video about the story of Easter. Miss R has picked a few and joined them together to make a movie but is having trouble uploading it.....stay tuned!

 

 

 This week we learnt about the letter 't'.

 

We covered our letter 't' with tiny teddies.

Normally you would use a tea bag to make a cup of tea but we used ours to paint the letter 't' in our alphabet book.  Smells yummy!

We made tip trucks that really tip.  We filled them up with lots of different things.

We made turtles with triangles all over them.  Did you know turtles can pull their head inside their shell when they get scared?

 

We met some new friends.  They are our PATHS friends.  PATHS stands for Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies.  That just means thinking about different ways to solve problems.

We met Twiggle Turtle, Donald Dog, Daphne Duck and Henrietta Hedgehog.  They will be staying in our classroom for a while.

 

The video cameras on our ipads have been getting a workout the last couple of weeks.  This week we talked about the wonderful bodies gave us and we made a video about the things we can do with the different body parts God gave us.  Stay tuned to see it!

These are our maths flippers.  We use them to help us practice our counting.  We count the stickers on one side and then flip them over to see if we were right.  They are lots of fun.

We read the story Jack and the Beanstalk and talked about how big a giant might be.  We painted things that we think our giant would be bigger than.

 

 

After reading Little Red Riding Hood we wondered what food Little Red Riding Hood took to her Grandmother.  We thought of lots of different types of food we would like if we were sick and then we sorted them into foods that were good for us everyday and food that was ok to have sometimes.  We discovered that healthy food is food that comes straight from the farm and is usually not in packets.



 

 

 

Only one week left of school and then we will be on holidays.  I wonder what we will get up to next week?

 

 

 



Busy Workers

The children were working so beautifully yesterday afternoon that I took a short video.  Check out how beautifully they are all working together.