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. 

String art

Today Michelle's mum came and taught us how to do string art. It is definitely trickier than it looks!  We used fine motor, problem solving, patterning and even some collaboration to achieve our beautiful finished products.  Our work is proudly on display in class before we bring them home later this term. Thanks Mrs Lim for sharing this new craft with us. 

Goods and Services

Today we discussed what goods and services are. We brainstormed ideas and added them to our class poster. 

We used an app on our iPads to create our own pizza business. We had to work together to see which group could earn the most money in half an hour. 

When we were finished playing we compared our profits and discussed what we had learnt about running our own business. 

Michelangelo Art

Today we joined our buddy class to learn about Michelangelo and how he painted the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City.  We talked about how he spent approximately 5 years laying on his back painting scenes onto the ceiling of the church in the 1500's.  After our discussion, we joined our buddies under their tables to try creating our own art while lying on our backs!  It was a lot of fun but our arms definitely got tired quickly.

Here are a few pictures of us creating our masterpieces and here is a short movie about our afternoon.

Let the Paper Mache Begin!

Today we began to paper mache our letters.  They certainly are big and will take us awhile to finish but we are excited about our project!

Watch us in action HERE

Buddy Science

Milky way experiment.  We filled a small tray with milk.  Then we added a few drops of food colouring into the milk in separate places.  After we added a drop of dishwashing liquid, we used a toothpick to swirl the colours in the milk.  It made beautiful patterns.

Our next experiment was to make paperclip helicopters.  We had to follow directions to fold and cut the paper and add a paper clip to make our helicopters work.  We had fun letting them go from as high as we could reach and watching them spin to the ground.

Buddy Class

Today we met our buddy class, Room 27.  We were very excited to get to be the big buddies as we have always been the little buddies! We went to Room 27 and were given a little buddy.  Then we chose a book from their class library and went outside to the adventure playground to read our book with our buddy.  After we'd read our books it was lunch time and we went behind Room 25 & 26 to have a picnic with our buddies.  We can't wait to spend time with them again!

Click on this link to see the photo gallery of us with our buddies.  HERE