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!!

Fractions

We are learning how to write improper fractions as mixed numbers. 

Fitness

This week our fitness rotation has been strength and agility. We go to the various playgrounds around the school and practice our skills.

Maths - position

We designed houses by drawing and writing a description of the plan. We then traded books with a friend and built a house using their plan. We are master builders and designers!

A busy week in review

Another week has flown past!  Here are a few highlights from the week.

FITNESS

For fitness this week our focus has been 'games', so we made up one.  The children named it 'Hide and Guide'.  All of the children found a hiding spot in the nature walk behind our class.  Two children were 'it' and they had to close their eyes and be guided by a friend who gave them instructions to find the children who were hiding.  A lot of fun was had by all!

  

ART
Another layer of paper mache and newspaper went onto our letters.  This coming Wednesday will be the final day of paper mache when we add our last layer of plain newsprint.  Thank you so much to the parents who have been able to help us out!  This is the last week that we really need parent help for completing our paper mache.  If you are able to join us between 1.30 and 3 on Wednesday, it would be greatly appreciated!

MATHS
We have learnt a new game on our iPads.  It is called Maths Slide and can be played with 1 to 4 players.  It can be played using multiplication, division, addition, subtraction or place value.  Here are Juliet and Liam playing a game together.

THEME & BLOGGING
We have been busy posting to our blogs this week, as well.  The children have all completed a Google Slide show in which they researched a country and its culture and created their own slideshow.  Some chose to work independently and some chose to work with 1 or 2 friends.  Their slideshows, along with their Learning Intention, Success Criteria and Self-Assessment, have been posted to their blogs. Please be sure to stop by their blog and have a look and leave your own comment.  Here is one of the slideshows made by the students.

Shelter Box

Today Juliet shared with our class all about the Shelter Box project that will be for our school's next mufti day fund raiser.  For $1500 we can sponsor a Shelter Box for a family in a disaster zone such as Nepal.  Everything that a family would need for shelter and cooking is included in the box.

On Thursday the tent was set up by the library. When we went to look at it, a Year One class was also there, so Juliet and Josh told the children all about it.

For more information about Shelter Box, please click this link.  >>HERE<<

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.













  

  

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday to Juliet who celebrated during the holidays. 

Happy birthday today to Nicole!!

Easter Eggs

We had a lot of fun dyeing Easter eggs with our buddies today. We used wax crayons to draw designs on our eggs and then we dipped them in dye to create colourful Easter eggs. 

 

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!

Math Whizz

Today we got to use our brand new Chromebooks to begin Math Whizz. First we did an assessment that took us through all the maths topics. When we finished it set our individual programme ready for us to begin using. Juliet was one of a small group of students who trialed Math Whizz last year so she gave us some tips and tricks for using the website. We are excited to get started on our own tutor lessons to earn credits.