11am - Room 6 & 7 swimming showcase, these are for the children who did not swim in the school competitive swimming sports. This will be followed by a picnic in the bell tower.
Room 6 will go first, then our class.
Congratulations to our 2 SHARP students for week 4.
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| Tangaroa for being so kind to a girl who was visiting our class, he offered to teach her handball. Also for showing SHARP responsibility. |
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| Khalia for showing SHARP responsibility both in the classroom & playground. Khalia was commended today for her help with Florence in the playground. |
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| Annalise (SHARP winner for week 3) and Sam sharing. |
<-------- Tangaroa leading the class in the karakia.
An interest in cicadas - sometimes we have to just roll with it. On Thursday Katie brought 2 cicada shells in - the children were fascinated. So we did a mini-discussion on these interesting creatures.
We watched a clip which showed a cicada shedding it's skin.
I found a magnifying container that the 2 skins went into - the children could look through this to see them closer up.
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| On Friday Katie brought in 35 cicada shells - here they are in the jar. We tipped them out onto the white paper so the children could see them nice and clear. |
Another interest: Cam & Logan brought in some crystals, a tooth and a bone.
On Friday afternoon they did a presentation on fossils and crystals.
They put this together using PicCollage - and Cam wanted something quick and easy to use to present (as they had a limited time).
As they showed the children their presentation on our new apple tv, the boys also had some artefacts to show the children.
MATHS - statistics. We have been working on statistics in class - our latest tally chart/research was deciding what SHARP rewards the children could have on Fridays (for the SHARP students).
The children had to write down 3 activities that they themselves would like - they then asked all their classmates what one they would like. They totalled all the tallies up - and worked out which one was the favourite - which one was the least favourite.
So their choices are:
1) Wear mufti for a day
2) Handball for 15 minutes with a friend
3) Fish & chip lunch (if your child chooses this I will be in contact with you prior).
4) Caught ya prize
5) Ice-cream
6) Lunch with the teacher (I'm looking forward to this one).
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| Their new research - the children need to come up with 3 ideas for a whole class WHEN THE MARBLE JAR is full reward: They then draw a tally chart. Ask their classmates and tally. Work out the total. Share their information. From this information we will come up with the overall favourites. |
Annalise, Taylor, Eva, Grace.
Thursday morning - we were discussing junior enviro group - and a few children didn't know what this meant: We went for a walk around our north/east side of the school.
The children were in pairs and had an iPad to take photos of the good environment and the not so good. eg: rubbish/weeds...
I took the children into our north creek bush area - it's lovely in here. It's not a place the children play in - as it's a work in progress.
I will get Mr Field in at some stage to talk to the children about why and what this project is/was.
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| This is after we cleared up rubbish from around our paper recycling bin. The children did an awesome job - there was no complaining - they just got in there and did it. SUCH SHARP STUDENTS!! |
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| Looking at our school garden and the sensational sunflowers. |
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| Aisling standing beside our raspberry bush - some growing on there. Yummy! |
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| Riley and our sunflower in our school garden. As tall as him! |
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| Super Sam....by the garden - we had a bit talk about how his mum Rachel has been an amazing support and worker for our school. A huge credit to Rachel and her team who have done these new gardens. A lot of hours of hard work - and what a pleasure they are to look at. We talked about how nice it makes our school environment look. |
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| Here we are about to venture into our north creek bush....... |
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| Rubbish and rubbish - sad =( Riley was super SHARP and picked it up. |
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| Super SHARP rubbish picker uppers =) Grace, Lexie, Riley, Hazel and Annalise. |
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| Our hidden bush walk - Kaleb, Keiran, Tyler and Freddy came with me on a little shortcut - oops we got stuck. So had to turn around and head back the way we had come. |
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| Off we go back to wash our hands, a busy adventure photographing, talking and looking at our environment. |
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| Super RUBBISH people =) Nara, Hazel, Annalise & Amelia. |
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| Gorgeous amongst the sunflowers: Annalise, Hazel, Eva and Isla. |
