Toady we’ve added a wall wisher to our blog! This means that you can add your goals/ hopes/ ideas for the next 3 weeks of our term. It’s just like posting a sticky note with your ideas on them. So what would you like to do in the next 3 weeks, what’s a goal you’d like to achieve or what’s an activity you’d like to do in the next 3 weeks? Post you ideas onto our wall.
I’m really looking forward to reading your posts
Our class has a new widget on our blog. It is called SpeakPipe. You can see the icon on the right hand side of our blog page – it also moves with the page as you scroll up or down. Mrs Kolenberg shared this idea with our class.
SpeakPipe allows you to record a verbal message to our class. If you send us a voicemail, it will email it to Ms Sporn and the we can listen to it and share it with the whole class.
We’d love to ‘hear’ from you on our new widget. Give it a try!
Today we tried an activity we’ve never tried before.
For something new in reading we played “Musical Chairs Reading”.
We took all of our chairs outside and Ms Sporn placed books onto the seat of each chair. She played music and when the music stopped we needed to stop, sit down and start reading! Then when the music started again we walked around the circle until it stopped again – then we sat down and started reading again. We had a great time!! It was lots of fun and something different to develop our reading interests.
It was a chance for us to read books we may not normally choose. Some of us discovered some new authors or series of books we’d like to add to our book boxes.
Here are some photos of today’s session. Check out our video too.
Have you ever tried Musical Chairs Reading? Do you think you’d like to?
As a part of our leap year Maths we investigated the number 29.
The answer was 29 and we needed to find out as much as we could about it and record our findings. Some of our ideas were:
Here are our photos.
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What special things did you do to celebrate the 29th of February?
Can you add any ideas to our Maths investigations?
Following our post about today being the 29th of February – a leap year, here is a list of 29 books we’ve read.
We worked out that each student needed to read 1 book each, Ms Sporn and Carol also needed to read a book each to total 29 books.
Arthur – Amanda Graham
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – Michael Rosen
Fur, Feather, Scales and Skin – Christine Ecomonos
The Hungry Giant – Joy Cowley
The Swamp Eggs – Jo Windsor
Kakadu Jack – Brenda Parkes
The Spy meeting – jill Eggleton
Meanie’s Night Out – Joy Cowley
Lizzie the Little Lizard – Patty Haley
Mortimer – Robert Munsch
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – Michael Rosen
Noah’s Ark Song – June Epstein
It’s a Book – Lane Smith
Chatterbox – Margaret Wild
Harry by the Sea – Gene Zion
Mr McGee and the Perfect Nest – Pamela Allen
The Dudgeon is Coming – Lynly Dodd
Edwina the Emu – Sheena Knoles
Mud Puddle – Robert Munsch
Watch Out! Big Bros’s Coming –Jez Alborough
Educating Arthur – Amanda Graham
Mr Knuckles – Mike Dumbleton
Gorilla – Anthony Browne
Alice the Tennis Fairy – Daisy Meadows
Norton Saves the Day – Bernadette Kelly
Frizz – Ellen Frances
There’s a boy Under the Bed – Sian Burling-Claridge
Mortimer – Robert Munsch
Daisy All- Sorts – Pamela Allen
Today is the 29th of February – this day only comes around every 4 years, in a leap year.
Today we will be doing lots of fun and different activities around the number 29!! Check out our posts later in the day to see what we’ve been up to.
Lots of people around the world will be blogging about Leap Year activities.
Here’s a site explaining what people could be blogging about – linked to their classroom activities.
Today four members of our class received assembly awards. Mr Wait presented these awards as a part of today’s assembly.
They were:
Today we had our first Year 2- Year 4 assembly.
Mrs Freebairn’s year 4 class hosted the assembly and our class presented a musical item.
The assembly items were:
What do you do at your assemblies?
Can you make any suggestions for an item for our next assembly – we’re also hosting the next assembly. We’d love to see you there – come along in Tuesday of Week 10.
Today we started using the school laptops in our room. We’ve been using the class Macs over the last few weeks but have now added the laptops to our learning.
Before we started using the computers and working online we needed to talk about ways to work safely on the Internet (online).
We need to encourage safe and more responsible use of online technology, particularly amongst children.
We also reviewed our blogging guidelines that are a part of our class blog. The teachers we work with – especially Miss Sporn, always ensure we are working safely online. Having a class blog is a terrific way to learn about appropriate online behaviour and “netiquette.”
We watched a fun video called “The Infinite Learning Lab.” It gave us lots of tips to remember when we are using the internet for school work or for fun. Check the video out here:
As a part of our online safety learning we made posters about being safe online. Some of the important internet safety messages we came up with are:
Here are our posters – please come into the classroom to read them – we’ve displayed them around the classroom as reminders of how to work safely online!
Cybersafety Posters on PhotoPeach
What do you think of our posters?
Do you know what YAPPY means?
What are the ways that you work safely online?
On Monday this week Laurie, Lachlan, Hannah and Jenny worked with Mr Luke, our Deputy Principal, and other Year 3 and Year 4 students. Mr Luke ran an induction programme to teach these students how to:
Laptop Monitors on PhotoPeach
