Mrs Rabe's Blog

Today we explored Mrs Rabe's Kindergarten Blog.

It was so exciting because they had left a comment for us yesterday.

This is our reply to them

Hello Mrs Rabe’s Kindergarten Class

We were so excited to get a comment on our blog from you.

We enjoyed looking at your blog. We learned about how some of you help other people. We thought your drawings and video were excellent.

We like our people too. We have finished them now and they are hanging up in our windows for everyone to see.

We have taken the tent down for now. We used the tent as a Paleontologist Camp. We had lots of dinosaurs, books and fun things to do in there. We were allowed in there all day but had to take turns.

We live in Christchurch, New Zealand. We are all 6 and 7 years old now and are in Year 2.
We LOVE school.

What do you do in a school day in America?

Our day is like this
News
Maths
Morning Tea
Reading
Writing
Lunch
Handwriting
Topic or Art or PE or Sports
Pack up and go home

Love from

Room 16

Harper's Discovery

Today Harper shared some awesome news.

Here is a video of Harper sharing news.

She discovered a Woolly Mammoth has been found in a swamp.  It is 39 000 years old!  The scientists think the Woolly Mammoth probably died in the swamp by drowning.  Then it froze.

We did some RESEARCHING

Israa had a book with some information about Woolly Mammoths that she shared with us.  One thing we discovered was
That Woolly Mammoths lived in Alaska, Canada, Siberia and Northern Europe.

Then we looked on Google and found this article with a video of the Woolly Mammoth.
We learned that to do a Google Search we type in a question and then Google gives us lots of links that might have the information we are looking for.

We also discovered that sometimes Google gives us links that are not so helpful so we have to be WISE to figure out which information we are looking for.

Woolly Mammoth Discovery

Finn used his inquiring mind to to ask a great wondering  He wondered if Mammoths were mammals.  To find an answer to this, Israa looked in her book and we looked on Google.  We all decided that YES, mammoths were mammals - this means they had warm blood like us.

Exciting Times

Today we were so excited because when we went onto our blog we found a message from some friends in America!

We thought your people were colorful. We liked all the circles that you used. We thought the tent was neat to have.

What did you use to build the tent? When do you get to go in the tent?

What grade are you in? We are in Kindergarten. We live in the USA.

From,
Mrs. Rabe's Kindergarten Class
Arizona, USA
http://blogs.goaj.org/srabe

We are going to write a reply to these children tomorrow!  It was so exciting to have people from another country reading our blog.  We are going to look at their blog too.

Lily and Cooper Love School

At school we love to

•  at  school  we  love  to  do   art
• and  we  love to light up fireworks
• we      love   to  think   and  writ w

Our Amazing Ashley

Today there was an exciting parcel in my cubby hole.
When I opened it I discovered it was a special certificate, letter and book for Ashley as a prize for the 400 Words Writing Competition.

Team Work

This term we have been focussing on working as part of a team.

Today we were talking about Guy Fawkes Night and the fun we had with fireworks last night.

Lily had a GREAT idea.  I was almost as excited as Lily when I heard her explain her great idea!

Lily suggested all of the c hildren work together to make a great art work by splattering paint onto black paper.

First Lily had to go for a run around the school to find some big pieces of black paper - thanks to Room 23 for helping us out with this!

Later in the day Nicky was working in our class.  She helped the children to splatter paint on the black paper and sprinkle glitter on it.

The end result is rather impressive - check in out in our classroom soon!

Thanks Lily for sharing your great idea.

Art Fun

We continued with our amazing artwork on Friday.

The children painted their person with black paint during the week.

On friday they all cut lots of circles out of the coloured paper we painted last week.

Next they carefully placed each circle onto their person and then glued them on.  Some groups are finished and some groups will finish next week.  Now they just need to be cut out!

I was SO proud of the amazing teamwork I observed during this task - it showed me how mature my little pickles have become over the last few months - they were helping each other, taking turns, giving advice in a kind way, making decisions as a team and encouraging each other.  I wished I could have recorded the conversations but my phone was too flat to record~