Here is a post by Will about his recent school holidays-
In the holidays I went on the train to the Festival Theatre, we did a tour of the change rooms, practice room, we sat on the seats and we saw where they made the props. Emma’s family came with us. We ate our lunch on the grass near the River Torrens. We played hide and seek on the colored blocks and chasey.
Tell us what you think of Will and Emma’s holiday adventure.
Our whole class brainstormed a list of key words that described our recent holidays.
Here is the Wordle we created.
What is your favourite part of holidays?
Tell us what you like to do when you are on holidays.
Our class loves to share their learning with our online community.
We are trying get our families more involved in our class blog. It means our work is really connecting with the families involved in our class. Miss Sporn is also running workshops to inform our parents about out blog – what it is, what is on it, how to make comments, etc.
As a part of our Family Blogging Month we encourage all of our family and friends to make comments on our blog. Whenever a family member or friend makes a comment we record it on our class chart.
The code for our chart is:
M = Mum
D = Dad
S = Sister
B = Brother
U = Uncle
A = Aunty
C= Cousin
GM = Grandma
GP = Grandpa
F = Family Friend
0 = Other
Each student has written a letter to a family member or members to ask them to get on board with our challenge and leave us a comment on our blog. These letters went home on today (the first day of Term 4).
We also need to remember to make quality comments when we ask people to post comments on our blog. We have shared lots of ideas and information about how to write a good quality comment on a blog.
Here is a photo of our class poster.
We hope this will be a big success and can’t wait to hear from our families and friends.
Tell us – what do you think of our Family Blogging Month Challenge?
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We’ve had a busy and exciting term of learning. Today we brainstorm all of the things we’ve learnt or done this term. We used key words to describe our term.We used Answer Garden to record our thoughts and ideas.
How did your term go – what were some of the highlights for you?
Last week we leant how to Rock n Roll. This was a partner dance and was lots of fun! There were some tricky steps to learn but we got there eventually!
Rock n Roll on PhotoPeach
What types of dance do you like?
Do you learn dance at school?
Today our whole school participated in a marathon run to raise funds for the Little Heroes Foundation.
Our SLEG group organised the fundraising event with Mrs Gillespie. Each student was given a sponsor sheet and asked to collect donations and sponsors for the laps they completed during our marathon run.
Today our class went our with their Buddy Class and completed as many laps as we could. We ran at 12.20pm and it was a very warm day for running laps in a marathon. Some of our class and our buddies chose to dress up as heroes or community heroes, for example – nurses, doctors, lots of runner wore capes. We ran laps of the oval and netball court for about half an hour, collecting pop sticks for each lap we finished. We had a sausage sizzle barbecue for lunch as the whole school sat together on the oval. Two people Tim and Amelia, talked to us about the Little Heroes Foundation and why they raise money and what they do with that money.
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From the Little Heroes Foundation website:
Children are the inspiration behind Little Heroes Foundation and as a result we are constantly considering projects towards which we are able to direct our funding. Sporting champions are the driving force behind our fundraising activities; working tirelessly to provide time, signature memorabilia and personal appearances for each and every fundraising event on our calendar.
Our funding programs are directed primarily to urgently needed medical facilities and treatment equipment, and ‘Life After Diagnosis’ child and family support programs relative to childhood cancer and serious illness.
We’d like to say a huge thank you to the SLEG group and Mrs Gillespie for organising today.
What types of fundraising activities do you do in your school?
On Wednesday we had a Super Tennis clinic with our tennis coach Shane. We were split into 2 groups and did 2 different activities. One group started with tennis skills like hitting on the wall and ball and racquet skills. The other group started using the rebound nets with ball and catching racquets.
We had lots of fun and learnt some new skills.
Here are some of our pictures.