Will's rhyming poem

Will wrote a funny poem about a Tasmanian devil. I like the way he used the word trotting instead of walking.

What do you like about his poem?

Roy's silly monkey poem

Roy wrote a great poem about a silly monkey. I like the way it made me laugh and the great smooth talking voice Roy used when he was reading his poem.

What do you like about Roy's poem?

Mikayla's witchy poem

Mikayla wrote a great 5W poem. My favourite part was when the witch was chasing her.

What do you like about her poem?

Luke's fantastic poem

Luke wrote a fantastic poem. My favourite line was "Scoping the yard for something scrumptious to eat."

What did you like about Luke's poem?

Jade's strange 5W poem

Jade's poem is interesting because strange things happen!

What do you like about Jade's poem?

Isabell's decriptive 5W poem

Isabell wrote a lovely poem about a cat.

I like the way she used describing words like short-haired and dark.

What do you like about her writing?

Brooke's funny 5W poem

Brooke wrote this poem to get the reader to laugh.

I like that this poem's ending is not what I expected. It gave me a funny surprise!

What do you like about this poem?

Savanna's descriptive 5W poem

Savanna wrote this lovely poem.

I like the way she used interesting words like deep, cold, and grey.

What do you like about her poem?

We had a fantastic time at the Wetlands!

Dip netting to find insects and other pond life

Using a magnifying glass to look at the insects we caught

Using the microscopes to look very closely at the tiny insects we caught. 

The poster some of our students made to thank our wetlands teachers

Exploring Plants at inquiry time

We are learning about living things this term. We did an experiment to help us learn more about the parts of a plant and what plants need to survive.

Here are some photos of us using our scientific skills of observation to look closely at what makes up a plant.

First we predicted what we thought would happen during the experiment.

Our experiment: Set up and ready for action!

Lila is looking very closely at a part of the plant. 

Look at what Lara found in the plant!

Will's amazing cello performance

Will has been learning how to play the cello since Term 2 this year. He really enjoys playing the cello and often talks about it or writes about it! Our class was very lucky to have Will give us a performance of his favourite piece of music. Click on the video to enjoy his lovely music.

Charlotte's Web is our next class novel!

We finished Babe and have been enjoying watching the movie to see the differences and similarities between the books.

Our next options were Crumbs by Emily Rodda, Charlotte's Web by E. B. White and Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers.

Charlotte's Web got the most votes!

We can't wait to get started!

Liam J's interesting powerpoint about his dog!

For oral language the students had to talk about thier favouite animal. Liam talked about his dog. He made a great powerpoint slideshow to go with his speech. We were very impressed that he put his information into his own words.

Seth's fantasic powerpoint about Hammerhead Sharks

Seth made this great powerpoint slideshow about Hammerhead sharks. We were very impressed with the way he put his information into his own words. Click on the picture below to have a look.

 

CC hopped in for a visit!

At news time today Jade brought in her new pet rabbit called CC. Jade told us lots of interesting information about how she looks after her rabbit. Jade is very good at looking after her rabbit!

Our fantastic author visit!

We were very lucky today because we got to go on a special trip to meet the author and illustrator David Legge. 

We learnt lots of interesting things about drawing and how books are made. 

Check out these photos to see what we learned. 

Building Patterns with blocks

Today we were exploring area in maths. We had fun building patterns with blocks from the plans Mrs Watson gave us.

Look at some of our creations! 

 

The planning group for our inquiry have been very busy!

We have been working very hard to plan our menu for the fairy tale ball. 

The planning group were using these cookbooks to brainstorm ideas. 

We even started our shopping list! 

Adventurous Scientists!

Today we began our science unit about resources. We went outside to search for different kinds of resources that we use every day. We recorded our data like scientists do! 

Can you think of any natural resources that we might of seen on our travels? 

What a fun maths game!

Well done to the hundreds column who were victorious! 

Yay! Today we started our maths groups!

We started our new maths rotation today. We got to explore all the fun maths games in our group boxes. We are working on making sure we use quiet voices in our groups. 

Check out these photos of us trying out our new games. 

Molly and Jayden share their favourite books with you!

 

 

 

Listen in to Tyler and Lillian share their favourite books!

 

 

Check out why Seth and Ryan love these books!

 

 

 

It has arrived!

Look what was in the mail when I got home! I am really looking forward to seeing what is the same as the book and what is different. 

I wonder if our visualisations will be similar or different to how the movie director saw it...

We are fantastic fact finders!

 

Watch this slideshow of children working really hard at writing time. They are busy finding interesting facts to include in their information reports.

Tyson's favourite book!

 

Listen to the fotobabble to find out why Tyson loves this book so much!

Declan's favourite book!

 

Listen to Declan's fotobabble to see why Predator showdown is his favourite book.

 

Making words

The Happy Hippos and Excellent Elephants reading groups had lots of fun making words on the whiteboard at reading time. What words can you read?

We love musical Tuesdays!

On Tuesdays we have Mrs Wither for music. Today we were using tamborines, bells, triangles and lots of other instruments. Mrs Watson got to listen to us at the end. She thinks we played pretty well!

Wonderful peer feedback at writing time!

Today after we had finished our morning writing we read our stories to a friend. They were looking for full stops, capital letters, five sentences and really exciting words. We helped each other make our writing even better! 

Hardworking students!

Look at all our amazing on task students working on their reading can do's and must do's today!

Some children are reading poetry, some are reading big books, others are practicing spelling words. All while Mrs Watson is taking a reading group. 

I am very proud of our independent workers! 

Soggy athletics!

We had a great athletics carnival today. The rain didn't hold off but we still had a great day!

Friends of Ten

Some children in our class are learning to say their friends of ten quickly. 

They have taken home their own friends of ten rainbow to practice. 

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Fabulous reading to our buddies!

At reading time we practice our reading to our buddies. We use good expression to make our reading sound interesting.