At the end of each day our class plays a game as a way to finish our day on a really positive note. One of our favourite games is ‘Water and Ice’. It is a dancing game. When the music is playing it can be stopped at anytime and an instruction is called out, for example – stork ( you have to stand on one leg and balance), water ( drop to the ground like a water puddle), rocket ( lift your arm above your head and point them skywards -like a rocket), turtle (lay on your back and wriggle your arms and legs in the air),  snail ( squat down like a snail) and ice ( freeze on the spot).

The last person/ people to follow the instruction is out of the game and becomes a part of the audience. We dance until there is only one person left.

Check out our Tumblr videos to see us grooving along.

Here are some photos of us dancing.

What are some games that you play in your classroom that we might like to try?

Today we heard Matthew playing the drums during his drumming lesson. Check out the Tumblr videos to see him in action.

We think he’s very talented!!

Custom Glitter Text

We were looking at the blogs of our Quadblogging team and noticed that the Year 6 class from Hampshire uses a website called Polyphonickids. So we checked it out and found out what the site has to offer.

Polyphonickids is a site that lists 3 different songs each week. You listen to each song and watch the video clip that goes with it. Then you can  vote on your favourite.

This site is a way to show us different styles of music and different artists – we think  we’ll hear songs we’ve never even heard of!!

If you look at our Tumblr videos you’ll see us grooving along to our favourite song of the week – The Bellamy Brothers song called Let Your Love Flow.

As one way to increase our steps for the Global Children’s Walking Challenge we decided to do Play outside today. We had beautiful Spring weather and we all loved being outside.

We planned a list of activities to choose from before we started. Some of the activities we had were playing on the Playground equipment, chalk drawing, playing elastics, playing 4 square on the courts, playing Passport, soccer, using the dress ups and lots of others.

We had to plan our activity, work out where were going to play, what equipment we would need and who was in our groups.

This free digital collage personalized with Smilebox

When we came back inside we reflected on our activities. We had lots of co-operation, sharing, different ideas and most importantly lots of FUN!
What activities do you like to do in Play?
How often do you do Play?

Will started working on our class blog today. He was really keen to start blogging and he was so excited!
Here Will is creating a Photo Peach presentation about our Garden Buddy activities. He has also made a Smilebox presentation about our Outdoor Play session.
Will really enjoyed his work and shared his ideas with Harry.

On Thursday we went out to garden with our buddy class. Our jobs were to weed the garden and mulch the garden beds.We worked near the front of our school, near the paths.
Garden Buddies on PhotoPeach

Do you garden at your school? What do you think of gardening?

Today we started our Global Walking Challenge. Everyone in our class is wearing a pedometer and we count the steps we make everyday. We are trying to walk our way around the world. Out team’s name is Sporny’s Super Stars!!
Each night we record our steps for the day in our log book. In the morning we log onto the website and enter our steps. The website then works out an average distance for our class and we move around the world.
We are starting in Palm Island – off the coast of Queensland, then move up the Great Barrier Reef and then will board a sea plane to continue our travels.
Everyone was SO excited this morning and we did lots of exercise during the day. We started with Footsteps dance, then worked outdoors with our Garden Buddies Project and then had Play outdoors.

Check out the website for the Global Walking Challenge for Juniors.
We’d love to hear how you are exercising.
What do you think of our Global Challenge?

Last Thursday, at Footsteps, we learnt a dance called The Military Twostep.

It is a dance that is over 100 years old but we danced to modern music. It is a partner dance and the girls moved around the circle so we had lots of different dance partners.

It was lots of fun!

This slideshow design made with Smilebox

What do you think of our moves? Have you ever danced the Military Twostep?

For Science Week we each prepared a simple science experiment to demonstrate to the class. We had lots of FUN and were really excited by our scientific discoveries.

Check out our photos here and the videos on Tumblr – there’s lots to see!

Science Sharing Time on PhotoPeach

What did you do to celebrate Science Week?