Library

While we were in the library this week another class came in and so we decided to read to them. These are the newest students to our school and it was fun to spend time with them. 

Also in the first picture is the newest addition to our class, Annabelle. We are so happy to have her join our class for the end of the year. 

A Day to Celebrate

Congratulations to our ICAS Distinction award winners. Michelle, Tony and Josh (x3!!) Well done!!

Congratulations to Juliet and Josh for being chosen as school leaders for 2016. We know you'll do a fantastic job!!

Happy birthday!!

Happy birthday today to Liam!!

And I think I forgot to post Jade and Josh's birthday pics so here they are!

 Happy belated birthday Josh!

Happy birthday Jade!!

Cross country

A great day for a run and a wee bit of mud!

Congratulations to Ben for placing third! Well done Ben!!  An added bonus to his win was being congratulated by All Blacks' Keven Meleamu. 

Speech practice

We have been working diligently on preparing our persuasive writing for our speech competition. Everyone has researched facts to support their arguments. We are just about all at the stage to begin practicing reciting our speeches in preparation to present them. Today Michelle and Josh had a trial run and we discussed the important aspects of our presentations like eye contact, clear voice, expression, etc. We will all be presenting our speeches in class next Friday.

Generations Morning Interivews

 Jack, Tony and Josh did a great job interviewing our guests during our Generations Open Morning. Watch the movie of their interviews.


Watch the embedded movie above or click HERE  (sorry for the sound quality - a work in progress)

Measurement

This week we have been working with measurement.  On Friday we had fun playing a game using measurement.  In groups of 4 we took turns choosing a card and naming a member of our group who we would measure.  We had to each estimate what the answer would be.  Then we measured the length and whoever was the closest won the card.













  

  

Anzac Day

This week we are learning a lot about Anzac Day as we look ahead to celebrating the 100th anniversary on Saturday. Everyone is bringing something to share that they have seen or heard about Anzac Day.

Jordan brought in a huge book full of photos and facts. He also brought some Anzac biscuits for us to share. Parinaz found some interesting information in the newspaper. James shared some fascinating facts that he discovered. Josh brought in some photos of his dad's trip to Gallipoli.

More congratulations!!

Congratulations for great work, super attitudes and amazing basic facts results!!  Congrats on achieving 100% on basic facts James and Michelle!! Our first of the year. 

We may have had some photo bombers. 😄

Team assembly

Congratulations to MacKenzie and Emily for being awarded certificates for their fantastic writing about camp.

Congratulations to all the children who read their amazing 'moments in time' about camp at assembly today.

Nicole and Michelle played the song they learnt from the Chinese musicians on their new instruments. Such talent!!

Maths Strategies

Today we worked with a partner to see how many different strategies we could use on one addition problem and one subtraction problem. We shared and explained one of the strategies we used with the class.

Congratulations!!

Congratulations to our 2015 class councillor, Juliet and deputy councillor, Josh. We know you'll do a fantastic job representing Room 3 in 2015!

Cricket!

Five boys from our class have made the school cricket team. On Tuesday they will participate in a tournament at Lloyd Elsmore park. Good luck boys and have fun!!

Our Fabulous First Week!

What a super week we have had starting our learning journey together in this, our penultimate year at Cockle Bay School!  One of the first things we've done this week is learn what 'penultimate' means.  Ask us to see if we can remember and use it in a sentence.

We spent time this week talking about what is important to take along with us on our learning journey this year.  We talked about how everywhere we go on our journey we leave footprints.  We are making our own learning journey pathway display in our classroom.

Here we are working together brainstorming what we know about the Cockle Bay 4Cs


Our Ready Steady Go learning wall is off to a great start filled with our shared ideas.

One of the definite highlights of our week was the welcoming of our class pets - 17 tadpoles!  One has already turned into a frog and we are having fun feeding him with a record of 9 flies given to him in one day!  This is a picture of our first frog and his first fly.  They sat like this for about an hour before the frog zipped out his tongue and ate the fly!  Juliet was the lucky one who saw it happen.

Our class writing wall has our first quick write activity on display.  Make sure to stop by often to read what we've been working on.