Ride A Bike

Posted on November 29, 2016 by lisasporn

We’ve been doing Ride A Bike activities for the last 3 weeks. On Tuesday morning the team comes into the class to teach us specific riding skills, road safety rules we need to know and skills to ride a bike safely.

We’ve loved working with the team of teachers and our bike riding skills have really improved a lot.

We’ve worked on:

riding a bike with no trainer wheels
how to wear your helmet properly – with the straps done up properly
tucking laces and long pants into sock – if needed
riding and always looking up and around – check what happening around you as you ride
how to pass a pedestrian on a footpath – using bell and voice as a warning
how to ride slooooooowly along footpaths and checking driveways in case of reversing cars
how to ride 2 abreast along a path and pass oncoming riders – making sure we stayed on the left side of the path – NO crashes!
braking quickly in an emergency.

It’s been a lot of fun learning lots of these safety strategies and we’ve all become a lot more confident when riding our bikes.

Mannequin Challenge

Posted on November 22, 2016 by lisasporn

screen-shot-2016-11-22-at-8-28-16-pm Today as our class set up for our Daily 5 Listen to Reading session we started off with something a bit different!! We love to listen to stories using our iPads, iPods, laptops and computers. We listen to stories from Sunshine Online, Ziptales, Storyline Online and some different book apps.

It’s really important to listen to reading because:

it gives us ideas about how to read using expressive voices for characters
it shows us how to pronounce words
we listen to the speed or pace of the reading (steady, faster, slower paces as needed)
it can teach us how to sound out difficult words
it gives us examples of how to read fluently.

We also have some people doing read to self today because they’re reading books that they just LOVE.

Today we started Listen to Reading by doing the ‘mannequin challenge’. This viral video trend is where people remain frozen in action, like a mannequin. We’re sure you’ve all heard of it – well now you can see how our class does it!

https://youtu.be/TGIrMhCANZA

What do you think of our Mannequin Challenge? Did you see the students from the class next door watching us – they just couldn’t resist.

Coding with Bee Bots

Posted on November 20, 2016 by lisasporn

Our class has been using the Bee Bots as a part of developing our ‘coding’ skills. We have a set of Bee bots that can be programmed to follow a sequence of steps to move along a set path. This is a very simple but highly effective way to start teaching children to code.

Our iPads also have the Bee bot coding apps and we also use Scratch for students to further engage in coding activities. Some of the older students in our classes like to use Python, Raspberry PI to code as well. Many of these students come along to our weekly Coding Club sessions on Fridays. Of course, one of the most popular coding programmes is Minecraft – we all LOVE to use Minecraft!

We use coding as just 1 way of developing many different skills. Coding develops:

procedural steps planning – sequencing
creative
collaborative
communication
critical thinking
problem solving
perseverance
counting
planning
testing and re-testing strategies
ways to work safely on the Internet.

There are many other skills that could also be listed. There are also many different ways student can continue to develop these coding skills that will lead to many jobs for in the future.

These photos and clips are from Friday’s session – we had a great time trying to programme and test our instructions for the Bee bots. We used the masking tape to set a path for our Bee bots to follow (hopefully).

*** Please note some of the wheels on our Bee bots aren’t tracking properly and wander a little off the path.

https://youtu.be/hI7G3Wdfw84

https://youtu.be/FXWHTp5u_34

https://youtu.be/B5WCcSxXo7M

https://youtu.be/NfDJfr3w5Dw

https://youtu.be/ji0VFRc5BPM

What was your favourite part of our Bee bot coding session? What do would you plan for our next session?

Sports Expo

Posted on November 17, 2016 by lisasporn

Today we had our annual Sports Expo. This is a wonderful chance for us to learn about new sports that we may not have tried before or practise new skills in sports we’ve played.

Our stations were:

athletics – relays, shot put, hurdles, ball skills.
basketball – played a game of golden child.
wheelie sports – learning how people use a wheelchair and why they might need a wheelchair.
gymnastics – lots of stations with a different focus: climbing, balancing, swinging, rolling, flipping, jumping, bouncing, crawling…the list goes on.
cricket – ball skills like throwing, catching and playing as a team.
air gym – lots of different bouncing skills and making shapes with our bodies.
soccer – skills like kicking, passing and team games.

We’d like to say a huge thank you to Mrs Pettman for organising the whole day – we had so much fun learning lots of new skills.

Music is Fun Band

Posted on November 10, 2016 by lisasporn

Today our school hosted the Music is Fun band. They were absolutely fantastic and we all LOVED the concert! We sang, danced and some of our class even turned into sheep.

We’ve been learning lots of the songs and actions to songs in our Music lesson with Mrs Rayner. We heard a great variety of songs and really enjoyed lots of them. It’s also great to learn about the different instruments used in the concert – how they are played, what sounds they make and different ways they can be used.

Musical Chairs Reading

Posted on October 24, 2016 by lisasporn

Our class LOVES to read everyday and we use the Daily 5 reading menu to develop our reading skills. Today we tried a new activity! We did musical chairs reading – you play by the same rules to play musical chairs but wherever you sit down you read the books that are on that seat. This is a great opportunity to read different types of books – fiction and non fiction book, novels, short stories and picture fiction books. Lots of people added the books to their book boxes after reading them during our game. Everyone was really focussed on reading and we can’t wait to do this game again.

Milo Cricket Clinic

Posted on October 23, 2016 by lisasporn

OnThursday morning our class had a fantastic time at the Milo Cricket Clinic. We learnt lots of different skills like: throwing, bowling, catching, aiming and throwing at a target and batting. The teachers taught us lots of specific skills and we had to work hard as a team to support each other.

Here’s some photos from our session:

What was your favourite part of our cricket clinic?

Term 4

Posted on October 19, 2016 by lisasporn

Welcome back to Term 4.

We’re looking forward to a term a fantastic and fun learning and lots of extra activities too! Stay tuned for future updates of our class activities.

Seesaw App

Posted on September 6, 2016 by lisasporn

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Today we’ve sent home the QR codes for each student to use to access their work on the Seesaw app. Our class is really excited to be using Seesaw to share their learning – we can’t wait for families to see what we’ve posted so far.

To our parents – please check your child’s diary for their personal QR code and then enjoy viewing their learning.

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How did you find the Seesaw app to use? What did enjoy about your child’s learning?

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