On Friday it was the twin’s birthday!
We hope you had a fantastic day Luiz and Pasqual!
Birthday Boys
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Monthly Archives: March 2014
Our Stars of the Week: Emma
Our Star of the Week is Emma. Emma showed us a turtle that was made out of shells. Her Mum brought it back from Vanatau. She also showed us her shell collection. Emma made some artwork with her Nan using melted crayons! Emma’s favourite book is called The Monster at the End of This Book, and her favourite movie is The Croods. When she grows up, Emma wants to be a vet.
Our Stars of the Week: Ari
Ari
Our Star of the week is Ari. He has a pet peacock and peahen. Ari’s dad lives in the bush and he wanted to have peakcocks as a pet. Ari is friends with the whole class. His favourite movie is called Ponyo. Ari went on an aeroplane to Queensland when he was 5 years old, he stayed in a hotel that had a pool. He use to have 8 baby bunnies and two adult rabbits.
School in the past!
In history, we have been learning about what school was like in the past. We found out that Australian children in the 1880s usually wrote on slate boards. Kids played games like marbles and coights and they got caned when they did the wrong thing!
We would love to hear what it was like when YOU attended school! Please leave us a comment and tell us about some of your experiences. Here are some of our questions- you don’t have to answer all of them!
1. What years did you attend primary school?
2. How did you get to and from school?
3. Did you have big classes?
4. Did you have a kitchen garden?
5. What games did you play in the playground?
6. Did you have any specialist classes like Japanese, art, music or sport?
7. Did you go on many excursions?
8. Did you have a canteen?
9. What did you love/hate about school?
10.How did your teachers treat you?
11.Did you ever get days off from school?
12.Did you get the cane?
13.What did you eat?
14.Did any kids at your school speak different languages?
15.Did you wear shoes to school?
Our Stars of the Week: Torah
Torah
Our other star of the week is Torah!
Torah has a special tiger named Stripey. She has had him since she was a baby. She also showed us her Princess Fiona doll and a toy couch that Fiona likes to sit on! Torah’s favourite food is vanilla custard and her favourite sport is dodgeball. Her friends are all the people in Grade 1/2!
Our Stars of the Week: Nerida
Nerida
This week our Star of the Week is Nerida.
When Nerida was born her mum made her a handmade doll and her sister Leah has one as well. She likes to collect the Dreamworks cards and she keeps them in the album that she got recently. Nerida’s favourite card out of the Madagascar collection is the Penguins card. She has a collection of rocks, that include an amethyst, Nerida’s birth stones and a moon stone.
Curiosity Box
Whale Vertebrae
Our Curiosity Box is designed to inspire thinking, wonder, imagination and curiosity. This was our first item in the box this year. The students completed a I see, I think, I wonder Chart to capture their thoughts.
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I see… |
I think… |
I wonder… |
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rock or concrete – Adam white – Nerida brown – Adam grey – George lumps – Halle black – Hollie holes – Ari a hole in the middle and a lump on it – Mystique antlers – Brodie three bones- Nao Raj a love heart a horn – Lyncom dirt – Lilly
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it is ring shaped – Daania it is a deer bone – Emma it is a bone from the past – Pasqual it came from the beach – Benji it is a horn – Jake it’s from a dinosaurs back or bottom – Brock it comes from a really old snake – Liam it’s a dinosaur bone – Lily its big – Tej it comes from the beach – Craig it’s a bone – Samina it’s a dinosaur head bone – Connor it’s a triceratops bone – Rhiannon |
if it is a dinosaur bone – Torah if it is a triceratops, because it has a similar shape – Michael if it’s a dinosaur mouth – Blake and Kane if it was a dinosaur that lived in the sea – Pasqual who owns it – Nerida if it’s a dinosaur that can fly – Adam if it came from a land animal – George how old it is – Timnite if the hole was the eye – Ryan where it was found – Blake if it is a fossil – Zac where it was before it came to the class – Phoebe if it use to smell – Grace if it is a hip bone – Hadia what animal it came from – Luiz
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Science Journal – Light and Sound
Date: 5/03/2014
Dear Science Journal,
This week in Science we brainstormed some ideas about light and sound. Then we went on a sound search! First we listened to sounds in the classroom. Then we listened to sounds outside. We recorded our findings in a table. Here are some photographs of sounds we heard in the playground.
We heard the flag flapping in the breeze.
We heard loud rumbling trucks.
We heard water running from the drinking fountain.
We heard Connor’s watch beeping.
We heard a crow squawking.
Science Journal – Light and Sound
Date: 26/2/2014
Dear Science Journal,
Today we read a story called “Sounds in the Dark”. We read it twice. The second time we listened to the story we had to think about the different sounds we had heard and think of some ideas that we could suggest to the character Luke, to help him see in the dark.
