Getting ready for Show day

Today we were making Vaseline saucers to present for Show day on Friday.  Here are a few clips of the children making them.  Individual photos will be on their Blogs.  Enjoy!

Keeping ourselves safe

Today we were learning about how to make an emergency call.  We used Mrs G's pipe phones, and pretended to ring Constable Rob.  We had to look at a picture, and then tell him what was happening.  We took a recording of Rivah practising, and made it into a movie that we could look at later to help us remember what to do.  Here it is.  We hope you enjoy!

Check out our individual Blogs, to see a photo of Constable Rob giving us each a 'High Five', after our last session with him today.

Z is for Zentangles on our Z men

Last week we were revisiting and learning about the letter Z.  As a fun activity to help us remember the letter Z we did some 'Zentangles' art.  We did these on some T-shirts and then stuck our head, hands and feet on them.  Check out our Zentangles Z men on our individual blogs.

Chocolate Dipping. Yum Yum Yum.

Today we had heaps of fun dipping treats in chocolate for the school Bazaar.  Mrs G made ups wash our hands, and we got to wear some cooking aprons as we dipped away.  We had heaps of fun, and lots of people took videos to show what we were doing.  Here are just a few!  We can't wait till the Bazaar on Sunday.

Butterfly Habitat Hero's

Today Eveliene, Rivah, River, Issy, and Julia received mail.  It was very exciting, and we loved being able to open it in our Junior Garden, beside the swan plants that need to be moved.  

Thank you Julie Holt, for your visit a few weeks ago.  Thank you also for your messages, and the ideas you sent today.  We are very excited about what we are going to do.  We have already taken some swan plant cuttings, and are looking forward to putting it all together in the Junior area. 

Keeping ourselves safe

This morning we had Constable Rob come in to help us learn about 'Keeping Ourselves Safe'.

He talked to us about why it is very important to know our phone number and address.  This is going to be our important homework this week!

We need to learn:

1. Our address (including our street/road/rapid number).
2. Our home phone number.
3. Our parents cell phone numbers.

There will be a sheet in our Learning Journey books to help us, then we will practice in class.

Jumping Jack Show

Today we had another visiting show.  It was about 'Jack, the Mexican Bean, and a Giant'.  In this story the Giant is a litter bug, and he keeps throwing his rubbish down to the earth.  Jack gets accused of littering, and he sets off with the help of the Mexican Bean to prove it wasn't him.

Below is a video that Stella, and Eveliene took during the show.  We will attach more photos, and videos as the children get time to edit them.  Thanks for viewing.

The Science Van

Today we had visiting performers come to our school, from 'The Science Van'.  They talked to the whole school in a mini performance at the beginning of the day, then those of us who had paid got to go to a workshop in the afternoon.

The focus of this show, and the follow up workshop, was on the concept 'Forces'.  We learn't about Friction, and how that the 'greater force always wins'.

In the workshop, we also learn't about how that when we combine our effort (e.g. we work together), our force becomes greater than it would be on our own.  We also learn't that we can use things like silky material, and wheels to overcome friction, and if we use this with 'pushing' and 'pulling' forces we can be the greater force.

(We are hoping to publish a video of our learning but here are a few photos in the mean time that Samantha and Kayla took).