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.

Amazing Ava's Awesome Book

Today Ava brought along a book she has written.

It is the second Magic Treehouse book she has written....what a talented writer Ava, I'm so proud of you.

Our Room 23 buddies also listened to Ava read her story!

Siberian Huskies

In our latest Magic Treehouse book we learned about Siberian Huskies.

We discovered these dogs sound a lot like wolves.
We discovered they live in the arctic and they like very cold temperatures.
We discovered they help people by pulling sledges.

We watched this you tube clip to help our learning.

Bina's Magic Treehouse Story

Over the weekend Bina wrote a fantastic Magic Treehouse book all by herself.

Today she read it to our class.  We were very impressed.  Bina took her story to Mrs Warren too.

Well done Bina, we love your motivation.

A Challenge for you!

Today we have been reading the Magic Tree house book called Polar Bears Past Bedtime.

We discovered there are polar bears at the artic (the North Pole).

My challenge to you is to find out if there are polar bears at the south pole (Antarctica).

See what you can discover and write a comment on this blog post!

Honey Guide Bird

While we were reading our latest Magic Treehouse book Jack and Annie discovered the Honey Guide Bird.

We found a you tube clip about this amazing bird.

The Honey Guide bird lives in Africa.  It works together with people.  The bird lead people to the bee hives.  The people get the honey from the hive and then they leave the honey comb for the birds.

We thought this was pretty amazing.

The Magic Treehouse in the Wild West

Today we discovered Rattlesnakes!

Have a look at this fantastic clip about them in the wild!

Magic Treehouse under water

We started reading another Magic Treehouse Book today.
This one has an exciting adventure underwater.

We learned about what a mini sub is, we discovered what coral looks like and we were fascinated by the Giant Clams.

We looked at these clips on You Tube to help us understand. 

 

 

 

on the Moon fun

I love that you are all so motivated to learn about the moon while we have been reading the Magic Treehouse book.

I thought you might enjoy these clips.

Craters on the Moon

Our lastest Magic Treehouse book is about the Moon.

It is set in the future.  We thought this was quite exciting.  In the story there is a moon station that astronauts can visit.

We learned that there are craters on the moon.
We learned how they are formed too- by big rocks falling into the moon dust.

We went outside and dropped a tennis ball into flour to make our own moon craters.

Ice Age

Our latest Magic Treehouse story is about the Ice Age.

We have been reading about sloths, mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

I thought you might enjoy this clip

More Magic Treehouse

Today we read more of our Magic Treehouse book about the Amazon.

Today we discovered piranhas..... and we watched a you tube clip about them

Magic Treehouse in the Amazon

Today we learned about Army Ants!

We read our Magic Treehouse book and discovered Army Ants are very big and very nasty!

We watched a you tube clip about them.

I Wish

We have been reading The Magic Treehouse books.

Jack makes a wish and travels to the time of the dinosaurs.

We did some BRILLIANT writing about our own wishes.

We had a look at some seeding dandelions and then we talked about how we can blow a dandelion into the wind and make a wish.

Mrs Pelham took our photo as we 'blew' the dandelion away.

Today we made a dandelion by collecting a stick and adding some wool.

We love the finished work.

Have a look in our classroom to see what we wished for.

The Magic Treehouse

We are very excited to have started reading the Magic Treehouse series of books by Mary Pope Osbourne.

Today we started to read Dinosaurs before Dawn.

We found out how Annie and Jack discovered an amazing Magic Treehouse in the forest.
They opened a book that meant they could see real dinosaurs!

We drew the Magic Treehouse in our reading book, it was our first time at using our new school books!

Hayden was an Outstanding Wise Learner and he became our Dinosaur Expert.  He knows so much about dinosaurs and he shared what he knows with our class.  We tried to ask him lots of dinosaur questions .... Hayden was amazing because he could answer them all!