Emma has been helping Chloe with her reading nearly all year. Sometimes they read books together and sometimes they do phonics games for a change. Thanks Emma, you have made a real change to Chloe's learning and well done Chloe for working so hard. What a fab team!
Now we are in September, we feel Spring has sprung!
We recycled a plastic Sprite bottle to make a rain gauge to capture the measure the rainfall from all our heavy, frequent Spring showers.
We planted forget-me-nots in our classroom garden and checked out the vegetable garden that we look after by the Batey Block. We picked a bunch of yellow nastursiums for our yellow banana table. We also found that some of the broad beans were already ripe, so we harvested some so we could nibble them fresh from their pods as a little brain food snack back in the classroom.
We have been sharing out counters and unicubes to solve division problems - we have been writing down the multiplication fact and the repeated addition fact that matches each division fact as well.
We wanted to make Father's Day special so we secretly made cards and wrote stories about our Dad or Grandpa, describing what we liked to do together. We designed the cards to look like Dad's favourite shirt with a special message inside.
After we had finished our Father's Day cards, we stored them in a classroom shop to keep them safe. At home time, you could buy back your own card for $20. The two tellers, Isabelle and Wallace, had a very busy time looking after all their customers!
Here is a small sample of our Father's Day stories. You can see them all on the WRITING page.
Friday, 28th August was Daffodil Day. It was a shame not to have all the collectors handing out daffodil badges like most years because of COVID-19. However, we still celebrated this special day by decorating our classroom windows with our own daffodils!
Room 18 did Maltezer Maths in the afternoon. We are learning to measure distance in metres and centimetres; measure time in seconds, and be good sportspeople by cheering on our classmates.
It was also a good ways to learn about heats. We ran several heats, there are races to work out who are the fastest competitors by deciding the winner. Then they can compete against each other in the semi finals, and ultimately the final so we can establish the Ulimate Winner in Room 18. This was quite cool to learn about because earlier, when the Giraffes read the book, 'Skate Champs', they thought that heats were something to do with being hot! So, we combined Maths and Literacy in this challenge.
Heat 1: Chloe and Josh
Heat 2: Dimitri and Otis
Heat 3: Kadin and Adam (disqualified - maltezer did not reach end point)
Heat 4: Oliver and Ruby
Heat 5: Isabelle and Emma
Heat 6: Charlotte and Abbey
Heat 7: Nathaniel and Milan
Heat 8: LJ and Kadence
Heat 9: Liam and Constance (disqualified - maltezer did not reach end point)
Heat 10: Sam and Kaleb (from Room 12)
Semi Final 1: Chloe and Dimitri
Semi Final 2: Ruby and Emma
Semi Final 3: Charlotte and Milan
Semi Final 4: LJ and Kabel
Semi Final 1: Dimitri and Ruby
Grand Final: Milan and LJ
Distance: 160 cm or 1.6 m
Time taken in final: 4 seconds
Speed is distance/time = 160/40 = 40 cm per second
We hope that you enjoy this exciting video of the final:
Here is a selection of the SPACE Art we uploaded to SeeSaw in Lockdown.
Lots of people accepted the rocket challenge by making a rocket using recycled things from home and their art materials. They were all very cool, but special mention must go to LJ who made a cardboard rocket SO big that he could fit inside and Nathaniel who was looking through the space porthole!
There was also a 'Space Out with Space Art' challenge when people had to make a space picture using collage. People stuck on ALL sorts of things on their space art: fabric, old wrappers and paper, card, buttons, cotton wool, glitter, sequins and tinfoil . . . the list goes on! Here is a selection:
