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!!

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. 

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.

Congratulations!!

Congratulations to Tony for receiving Pizza with the Principal this term. 

Congratulations to Michelle for winning a place in the Writers Quiz squad. Good luck for next week!!

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.

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.













  

  

Mr Henty Comes To Visit by Tobey

Today Mr Henty came to visit our class and taught us about science. Phobic means fear of something and Philic means a love of something . Arachnophobia means fear of spiders. Philanthropy means love of people.  We had so much fun because I learnt lots of science thanks to Mr Henty. Hopefully we do more science this year!

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.

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. 

 

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. 😄

Congratulations!!

Congratulations to Michelle for making it onto the Writers Quiz team for 2015.  This is huge accomplishment as 35 students tried out for it and 10 were chosen.  Well done Michelle!  Happy reading!  

Congratulations to Jade and Tobey for placing 1st and 2nd in the championship zone swimming finals at Lloyd Elsmore Pool on Wednesday.  Jade won 1st in backstroke and 2nd in breaststroke for 9 year old girls. Tobey won 1st or 2nd in the final championship freestyle for 8 year olds.  (final verdict is still coming - must have been a close race!)

Chinese musical performance

Today the Year 5s were treated to a special musical performance by some Chinese musicians. At the end four students were presented with their own Chinese instrument to learn to play.

Happy birthday Michelle!

Monday was Michelle's 9th birthday. Happy birthday Michelle!!