Wednesday 21st June

Headphones!

This week we were lucky enough to get four new sets of headphones to use in the Middle Room. We can use these when we are on Sunshine Classics. This is where we can read stories and have them read back to us. We then answer questions about what we have read. We can also use them when working on Reading Eggs. These headphones are very helpful for our reading programme and have already been very popular!

Bree and Esther testing out the new headphones

Wednesday October 21st

Google Presentations
Here are some of our google presentations from our reading can dos last term.  These were about safety and were tied in with our inquiry topic 'How Safe Are You?':

Friday October 16th

Plays

Over the last two weeks of term three and the first week of term four, we have been doing plays.  For the first play we did, we worked with our reading group and some reading groups joined together. For our second play, we got to choose our groups with our class reading groups mixing up. Today we presented our second play to the Junior Room children and year 5 and 6 children.

The names of the plays and the children in them were:

That is So Gross! - Nic, Taylor, Cooper, Maddie and Julienne

Cat School - James, Courtney, Georgia, Chloe and Esther

A Biscuit Trail - Tayden, Savannah, George, Iara and Bree

Here are some photos of us presenting our plays:

Cat School.

 A Biscuit Trail.

A Biscuit Trail.

The audience watching A Biscuit Trail.

That is So Gross!

That is So Gross!

That is So Gross!

Friday August 21st

Innovative Learning Environments

Over the last two Fridays, Miss Ward has set us tasks over a certain amount of time that we have to complete.  This means we can pick and choose when we do the work as long as we are balancing our time, to ensure we are getting all the work done.  The tasks we have had to do are maths, reading and writing work.  All tasks are related to what we are learning about in class.  Some of us have been really good at managing our time to get our work done and some people have had to have Miss Ward reminding them to manage their time.  We love having choice about when we can do our work, it is cool to see people doing different work at the same time.  Miss Ward only lets us choose when we do our work for a certain block of time at the moment, e.g. the first or second morning block.  Miss Ward also pulls out people to work with over this time for reading, maths or writing.  This is part of an Innovative Learning Environment as we are able to choose when we do our work, instead of being told (well most of us can!).

Here are some photos of us choosing when we get our work done:

The Totallies maths group doing their maths with Miss Ward.

Maddie, Julienne and George doing XtraMath.

Nick and Iara doing their maths.

Courtney doing her Quick Write.

Esther doing her reading work.

Iara and Nic doing SumDog.

Cooper doing Rainbow Reading for guided reading with Miss Ward.

George doing his Quick Write.

Courtney doing her reading work.

Chloe doing her maths.

George doing guided reading with Miss Ward

Tuesday August 11th

Reading Can Dos
Check out some more of our finished Space Presentations from our reading can do's in term two.

Wednesday July 29th

Reading

Last term we had reading activities based around our inquiry topic which was Space.  Check out some of the powerpoints below that we had to create as one of our independent reading can dos.

Thursday June 18th

Morning Programme

Morning programme is a real hit in our class.  Everyone is pretty good at presenting their topic each week and we get a real variety of things being talked about for the topics people have.  We also get topics presented in a variety of ways including book creator on the iPad, google slides, google docs, posters, paper presentations, iPad apps we use at home and iTrailer.  Some people even bring examples of things to school like cupcakes, pets, fudge and we even had a house bus come one day!  

Children in our class are starting to get more confident at speaking in front of an audience.

Cooper made a poster on Volcanoes for his Our World topic.

Georgia used book creator to do her presentation about animals in the sea for the Marine Animals topic.

Julienne talked about Honey for her Our World topic.

Tayden presented his Marine Animal topic on starfish.

Iara spoke about how humans are destroying our world.

Iara explaining something on her google presentation that she made.

Savannah chose to tell us about Stacey Peeters for her famous person topic.

Here is Chloe's police lady and slideshow from our reading tasks that had to be completed earlier in the term, from term one.

Wednesday June 3rd

Reading Activities

Please find below some more google slideshows and google drawings of police that we created as part of our reading activities from term one.  We had to finish these in the first few weeks of term two.  Now we are busy working on space activities for our can do's at reading time.  

James's policeman.

Maddie's policewoman.

Tuesday May 25th

Reading

Last term we had to make a google slide show about what we would do if we were a Prime Minister or Principal for a day.  This was one of our reading activities and tied in with our inquiry topic of Rules, Laws and Protocols.

Here are some of our finished slideshows:

Monday May 25th

Our New Police People!

One of our reading tasks last term was to create a new police man or woman on Google Draw.  This was to do with our inquiry topic Rules, Laws and Protocols.  Check out some of our awesome creations below:

 

Taylor's Policewoman.

 

Savannah's Policewoman.

 

Tayden's Policeman.

 

Nic's Policeman.

 

Bree's Policewoman.

 

Georgia's Policewoman.

 

Cooper's Policeman!

 

Iara's Policeman.

Esther's Policewoman.

Julienne's Policewoman.

George's Policeman.

Morning Programme

Today it is very chilly!  There is lots of snow on the hills and it is cold outside.  We all managed to get to school and are carrying on with our learning in our nice warm classroom.

For morning programme today James showed us how to make a paper plane for how to.
Iara talked about her Dad and how he is her hero.  He is her hero because when she was born she was very weak and had low blood oxygen.  Her Dad talked to her and told her life is worth living and held her leg while the doctors worked on her.  What an awesome hero, you are very lucky to have a Dad like that Iara! 

James introducing his topic for morning programme.

He had a cool book with paper plane formats in it.

Getting ready to make his plane.  

Starting to make his plane.  In the box is a whole heap of other planes he has made.

Explaining to the class what to do.

James with the finished product, well done!

Iara speaking about her Dad being her hero.

Iara had the whole audience hooked in.