Fat Man Splat!

This morning we had heaps of fun playing cooperative games with Rory, our sports activator. We played a great team game called 'Fat man splat' where we had to run at the blue mat and splat onto it, trying to move it as far forward as we could. When we got the mat to the end of the gym the whole team had to come together to drag the mat back down to the other end of the gym again. Rory timed us and the team that did it the fastest won. We had so much fun. Check out our videos to see how cool it was

Look At Our Garden Grow!!!

 We are studying plants on room 4, so we are going to grow some veggies for the school garden.

Today we planted our veggies. 

First of all we put all of our 'grow pellets' into seed trays.

Then we had to add water to them so that they could expand. 

 When they were expanded they were like a little bag of soil, perfect for growing seeds from.

 We had to make a little hole in the top of our seed pellet which we dropped a seed into.

Then we gently covered the seed up with a bit of soil. 

 We each planted three different seeds. We chose from broccoli, lettuce, radish and tomato seeds.

Each of the seeds has a different germination period. (Germination is when a seed changes into a plant.)

The radishes only take 4-10 days. The lettuce and the broccoli take 7-14 days and the tomato plants take 14-21 days. 

Now we have to take special care of our seeds so that we can observe the changes. Our seeds will need water and sunlight so that they can grow. 

We will keep you updated as the changes start to happen. 

A special visitor

 Charlotte brought her 8 week old puppy, Niko, in for a visit to the classroom. He was a little bit nervous. We loved to see him and he is certainly very cute. 

Seasons Art - Trees through the seasons

We were looking at the colours of the seasons and how a tree would change over the four seasons of a year. We thought about what a tree would look like in winter, all dry and bare. Then we thought about the blossoms of spring and the bright green grass. Then we decided that in summer the trees would be full of fruit and be very green and leafy. Our autumn trees were covered in brown, orange and red leaves, and we chose and orange background. See what you think or our art work. 

Student of the week - Arnika

Arnika has been working realy hard in numeracy all year. She is always focused in the new strategy and keen to be better than the day before. At the moment she seems particularly focused on learning how to find fractions of a set, and she is using her times tables and knowledge of division to help her. Keep up the terrific work Arnika!!

Student of the week - Kade

Kade has an a terrific start to writing in term 4 and he is working really hard to add lots of details and descriptions to his personal recount writing. He is also working really hard to 'show' his audience what he is writing about, rather than 'telling' them. Keep up the terrific writing Kade, 

Technology - making hats

We have been learning how to reduce, re-use and recycle this term. We decided to use recycled materials, or materials from home that we could reuse and make some fancy hats for technology. We had to create a design brief and think of all the things we would need to make our hat and we had to bring those things from home. We had a whole day day at school making our hats. We had to follow our design and make the shape, then we got to decorate our hat. It was so much fun! Check out the hats we created. 

Student of the week - Madison

Madison has set herself the goal to get onto linking before she finishes Year 3, and lately she has been working really hard to add flicks to all of her letters so that she is ready to start joining them together. - Great work Madison, I love it when kids work so hard to achieve their goals!!!!

Student of the week - Aaron

We have been having lots of fun creating hats out of recyclable materials and Aaron had some really creative ways to find new uses for things he found at home. Well done Aaron for having such a creative plan, and following it through to the end - a great hat!

Student of the week - Caitlyn

We have all been working really hard to learn our speeches to present to the class, and maybe in the junior speech presentation. Caitlyn had a very long speech and worked really hard to present it to an audience in our class. Well done Caitlyn, you did a great job!