100th Day of School

Our 100th day of school was such a huge day that I have decided it deserves its own post.

We had a fantastic day and did lots of 100 type activities.

We blew up 100 balloons, made 100 hats, made 100 glasses, stamped 100 times, put 100 eyes on an alien, put 100 decorations on a butterfly, put 100 ingredients on a pizza, drew what we would buy if we had $100, drew what we wish we had 100 of, drew what we hope we never see 100 of and finished off by licking a lollipop 100 times!  What a busy day!  And that is not including our party lunch where I am sure some of the children ate 100 things!  Thank you to all the parents who sent in food to help us celebrate this exciting day.

 

 

Term 3 Week 2

Alphie the alphabet worm lost two of his letters this week.  He lost the letter n and the letter o.

 

We covered our o with lots of orange things.  We covered our n with newspaper.

 

 

 

We had a very special visitor this week.  Captain Red from the Australian Astronauts Association came to invite us to become astronauts.  We have lots of things we have to learn to become an astronaut.  Captain Red will come back at the end of term and see if we have learnt everything. 

There was a little caterpillar in the playground.  We are hoping it might make its cocoon and turn into a butterfly in our playground.

Term 3 Week 1

Welcome back to school.  The children have all come back with fantastic attitudes and are raring to go. 

This term the children have chosen to learn about space.  We can't go into space for real so we have built a little corner of space in our classroom.  As we learn more about space we will be able to add things into it.

 

 

We found the letter h.

 

We covered our letter h with hearts.

 

We made helicopters to go in our alphabet books.

 

 

We made helicopters that spun like real helicopters.

 

 We talked about questions.  Then we thought of a question about space and painted a picture of it.

We learnt how to give compliments to other people.  A compliment is when you say something nice about someone else.

We learnt how to use our headphones with our ipads.  The headphones help us to hear the ipad better.

 

Look how much our sunflowers grew over the holidays.

 

 

Here is some of the learning that happened while we played.



We made a giant house.

 



 

 

We made a frogs river. The idea came after we saw the frog pond that Mrs M and the year 6's built.

We built the biggest castle we ever made.

 

Today was a cold, wet and rainy day.  The perfect day to stay inside and read a book.  Our year 5 buddies came down and read us some books.

 

Term 2 Week 9

This week we learnt about the letter m.

 

 

We covered our m with money and rubbed over money to make prints in our alphabet books.

 

Our sunflowers have really started to grow.  We can't wait until they get flowers on them.  Hopefully there will be some rain over the holidays to keep them growing.

 

We went on an imaginary excursion to a farm this week.  We watched a video about chickens laying eggs, sheep being shorn and spinning wool and cows getting milked.  We used our super strong arms to shake some cream until we turned it into butter.  Most of us even had a taste of it.

 

After our 'excursion' to the farm some of us created a picture in paint sparkles and then imported it into educreations so we could share why animals are important. 

 

 

 

In Religion we talked about how sometimes family members don't show love to each other which can make us and our family sad.  We worked out that if we say sorry we can help make the person feel happy again.

 We finished our week off with Derby Day.  We had a visit from Rick the Rock Eagle and had tabloid sports in the afternoon.  What a great day!

 

 

 

Wow, the end of another term.  It feels like term 2 only just started and yet here we are at the end.

 

Thank you to all those parents who have helped out this semester in any way, shape or form.

 

Don't forget to collect your 100 beautiful things over the holidays and watch out for all those letters and sounds all around you.

 

Have a wonderful holiday and I will see you all in 2 weeks.



 

Our Assembly

Our assembly went great!  We were superstars!  Our only hiccup was the music not working and the kids continued on like professionals.

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Term 2 Week 7 and 8

My apologies for the lack of photos this week. I seem to be having issues loading them.

We had such a busy week last week that we didn't have time to blog.  So this week you get to hear about two weeks of learning.

We are very excited because we will be doing our assembly this afternoon.  We hope you will all be able to come and see us show off our learning.

This week we learnt about the letter l.

 

We went hunting through the bush for lots of interesting leaves. We used them to make leaf collages.

 

 We learnt a new app.  It is called Aurasma.  When you look at certain pictures through this app amazing things happen.  In our dinosaur world a real dinosaur appears when we look at it through Aurasma.  We have also made some videos about how our family members show us they love us.  Miss R then put the video over the top of our paintings so you can see us explaining our picture. 

Parents, the Aurasma app is free to download and if you bring your smartphone in I can show you how to search for the channel that contains the students work.

 

 

In week 8 we learnt about the letter w.

 

We have been exploring water,

 

and eating watermelon.

 

 

 

We watched a puppet show about recycling.  It was very funny.  

 

 

Enjoying an outdoor tea party with Kindy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Term 2 Week 6

We stamped 70 stamps on the number 70.  We did it in groups of 10.

 

 

 

We put feathers and feet into our alphabet book.

 

In Religion we are talking about families.  We drew a picture of our fabulous families.

 

We have been reading non fiction books.  They are books that are about real things.

 

 

This week we learnt how to use the Paint program.  It was lots of fun!

 

We were doing our finger painting.

 

 The dentist came to visit us today.  We had to open our mouths very wide so they could peek inside.