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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.

Fairy Tale Fun

Today the children presented their Fairy Tale Reader's Theatre to our class and some wonderful parents who came along to watch. I was very proud of the children who did their best to use a loud, clear voice and speak slowly and with great expression. We used these to follow on from presenting our poem in the poetry competition - I was very impressed with the improvement the children showed. Special mention needs to be made of Finn - Finn was so confident and presented his lines clearly and proudly today. What a HUGE confidence boost in such a short time - I was very proud of you Finn. Charlotte, you also did a superb job of presenting your lines with confidence and expression, I loved it. Hayden, you were excellent at presenting your lines with expression. YOu followed the script well and always knew when it was your turn to speak. Lily and Grace - you had both learned your lines off by heart - and you used wonderful expression too.

The Princess and the Pea

This week we have been reading The Princess and the Pea. We have had a lot of fun with this Fairy Tale. We decided we wanted to discover if our own Mums are real princesses. We had lots of fun doing this! First we came up with a secret plan! We had to find a way to test if our very own mum is a real princess! We came up with a sneaky idea - we would slip a pea under our Mum's mattress and then ask her how she slept the next morning. First we needed to find out how she usually slept.

Next we put our plan into action! We took home our own pea seed.  We had to slip them under out Mum's mattress while she wasn't looking!  It was so exciting to discover that so many of the Mums in our class really are princesses - we even have one Mum who is a real Queen because Lily found her crown in her drawers!

When we came to school today we did a survey to find out how many princess Mums we have!

We recorded our account of this special project - check out our movies here.


 Ava very kindly brought along a fantastic wall hanging she has of the Princess and the Pea - we used this as inspiration for our own art work this week. We cut fabric into strips and made our own Princess and the Pea beds with lots of mattresses on them. Next we made a princess to lie on the bed and we added a pea under the mattresses. We even made our princess a crown and shoes.

A huge thanks to the Mums in our class for joining in the fun with this activity.  It has been so fantastic to see so many beautiful children so excited by this learning project.

Tomorrow we are tasting lots of different types of peas and writing about what we think of them!  I wonder what reaction the children will have!!!

We are also making crowns and jewellery for our Mums - we have a special photo of all of our Mums to do this with, I can't wait to see how special these look.

Milk Madness!

Today we had our first day of Milk in Schools.

We were allowed to choose to have milk if we wanted it.

Lily was our Milk Monitor.  This meant she was allowed to walk to the cafe and collect our milk order. Today we had 19 children who wanted milk.

When we had finished our reading we sat in a big circle and learned how to open our milk carton and then we got to drink the milk ..... it tasted great, it was lovely and cold and very refreshing.

After we had finished drinking the milk we learned how to fold the tetra packs.  This was quite tricky and we will need a few more practices before we become experts!

South Africa Freedom Day

April 27 is Freedom Day in South Africa.
This is a very special day for people in South Africa because it celebrates the day that all South African people were allowed to vote for a President for their country.

In our class we have Lily, Tiaan and Emma who have all come from South Africa.
We hope you and your families can celebrate this special day in style.

Competition Winners!

Today we were very excited when two people from our Buddy Class came to tell us who Room 23 had voted as the winners of our Programme Cover Competition!

Congratulations Lily and Charlotte, we can't wait to see your designs on our Movie Programmes!

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!

Lily's Amazing Home Learning

Today Lily brought along this fantastic video clip of her acting out the life cycle of the butterfly.

We are working on how to transfer the video from her leap pad to our blog.

Happy Birthday Lily

We hope you had a great day being six Miss Lily.