Poetry Competition Finals

Today we had the Poetry Competition Finals in the hall.

HUGE congratulations to Riley B who was placed second overall.

We are so proud of you Riley.

Ashley and Grace did a fantastic job of presenting their poems too.

Poetry Competition

Today we held our class Poetry Competition. I was SO proud of all of the children who all did a great job of presenting their poem. Congratulations to Ashley, Riley B and Grace who were selected by Mrs Archbold to go through to the Year Two final.

Sewing Fun

Today we began our second sewing project.

We cut a circle out of fabric and stitched a button to it.

On Friday we are going to stitch our creation onto a big piece of fabric and make it into a garden.

It will be fantastic.

Riley took these photos for us.

Riley's Great Invention

Wow, I was so excited to hear Riley tell me about his amazing Lightening Attracting Machine.

I was even more excited to get these photos .... what an amazing invention Riley, I can't wait to find out if it worked!

Wise Words

Today Riley shared some very wise words with us.....

he told us that

"Scientists spend a lot of time getting things wrong" 

This is so true - but scientists also keep trying and trying and trying.  They make changes and try again until they finally find the answers.

Riley, you are an Outstanding Wise Learner

Riley's Great Science Experiment

I have just checked my emails and I was excited to find this great you tube movie of Riley doing a great science experiment.  We are also going to do this experiment later in the term with our forces topic.

Great work Riley, I love your enthusiasm.

Wordle Fun

Briannah, Riley B, Miles, Ava and Israa have been reading about wolves.

They thought about all the words they could use to describe wolves.

They tried to think of interesting WOW words.

Then they turned their words into wordles.

Have a look at these links.

Ava's wordle

Riley's Wordle

Miles' Wordle

Israa's Wordle

Briannah's Wordle

The children had to think about the words they would use then they had to decide on a layout, font, colour and shape.

Adding Big Numbers

Today at  maths we learned really big numbers.
Such as 20 + 2 = 22
and 30 + 3 = 33
and 40 +1 = 41

We discovered that to add these big numbers we just take away the zero and swap it for the other number!

Look at us working out the big numbers

By Riley B

Maths Racing

Today we had a maths race to help us learn our basic facts.

Wow, we have some speedy mathematicians in our class!

We had fun racing to know the answer to basic facts.  The boys and girls raced against each other....in the end it was a complete tie.  Riley B, Bina, Nethasa, Bryn, Elenoa and Fatai are particularly speedy- and they can work addition problems out VERY quickly!

Dingoes at Dinnertime

Today we started reading a new Magic Treehouse book.

It is all about Australian animals.

"We discovered that marsupials are animals with pouches, " said Riley B.

"We listend to the kookaburra singing, they sound like they are laughing." said Harper.
We watched this you tube clip to listen to a kookaburra.

Assembly

Room 16, you made me so proud today.
You presented a wonderful assembly and I think the children and parents enjoyed it too.

I will add some photos soon....until I get my new phone it's a bit tricker to add photos!

Sam Bear will look great in our classroom too..... congratulations to Tiaan and Riley who won the lucky prize draw for the ball and clip and climb ticket.

Well done to
Harper who received this week's Heart of Achievement.  Harper, you are a beautiful, energetic and enthusiastic learner.  I love your sense of fun and the way you are a careful thinker.  I especially loved the way you played Marley in your movie....you were fantastic.

Elenoa- you are a kind, caring and wonderful girl.  You have outstanding manners, you are willing to help others all of the time and you are an excellent role model of St Albans School values.

Finn, you received your award because you are working so hard to learn your basic facts....and you are making great progress too.

Dinosaur Collage Completed

Today these children finished their dinosaur murals.

They look fantastic.

Movie Making Progress

Today we did lots of work on our movies.

We got together with the other people in our groups and we began talking about things like voices, costumes, plot and character descriptions.  We made some pictures of what we imagine our characters will look like and identified some key characteristics.

Bryn was busy directing his group of actors- Israa, Briannah, Miles and Ava as they were having a rehearsal of their movie.

I loved the feedback that Bryn provided to his team.

Riley's group had a great idea.  Part of their movie is set in the Cashmere hills so Riley was keen to take his group to Victoria Park to film so of their movie.  When Riley suggested this we were all very excited but we also realised it posed some problems too.

Riley shared the problems with Mrs Simmons and with our class.

Then we did some problem solving together.

The children suggested lots of ideas

• Mrs Pelham could take the children in the car -  but what would happen to the rest of the class? - they could have a babysitter was one suggestion
• how would we get to Cashmere hills?  the children thought we could use google maps to find the way
• we could use green screen filming and add a background of the Cashmere Hills
• we could use English Park hills to look like the Cashmere Hills
• we could ask Riley's Mum or Dad to take us - but we would have to ask Mrs Warren first and the parents of the other children too

The children then went on an adventure to English Park.  The discovered the hills there were pretty good and they think they could probably use those hills to do the filming.

Our next step is to start writing scripts for the movies that are not yet written and then to work on our costumes.  We are feeling very excited!

I am particularly pleased with the way the children are embracing this inquiry learning.  They are driving the direction of this learning and it is so exciting!

Dinosaur Mural

Cillian, Tiaan, Ashley and Finn read a great book called Dinosaur Mural.

The book has instructions for how to make a dinosaur mural.

Today they made their own mural by following the instructions.

Movie Scripts

Over the weekend I set a challenge for a few children to write movie scripts for our movie premier night.

Ava did a great job and Riley returned to school today with a super script too.

Today Riley read his script to us.  He has some brilliant ideas and has used incredibly language.  I can't wait to see his script turn into a movie.

Riley did such a great job he visited Mrs Warren and he was given an OWL pencil!