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. 

Oscar's speech

Today Oscar shared his Mandarin speech with our class and other Mandarin speaking students at our school.  He did a fantastic job and it was great for us to have a small experience of what it's like every day for Oscar and Blake as they spend the day in our classroom not understanding what we are saying. 

PPPs

Thank you to everyone who came to our class PPPs - Pupil Progress Presentations.  The children truly enjoyed sharing their learning with their parents and even a couple of grandparents came along.  It was wonderful hearing the children talking about their goals, successes, achievements and everyday classroom work. Using our Chromebooks was a great way to share their learning at our PPPs and now to be able to show it to those who were unable to attend.

Happy birthday Oscar!

Google drawings

Today we learnt more about how to use Google Drawings. We looked at the work of Roy Lichtenstein and how he used colour and words to create powerful visual images. We brainstormed a large list of onomatopoeia words that we could use for our art.  After we created our picture we posted it to our blog, so be sure to check our out blogs to see our cool artwork!

Here is a link to the Google Drawing lesson.  HERE

Art expo projects

Today we began our art expo projects. We are creating large paper mache letters.  Today we joined the front and back and made them 3D. Thanks to the mums who were able to come and help and a huge thank you to the mum (and dad) who designed and cut all the letters for us!!!  More parent help will be needed over the next few Wednesdays as we continue to create our masterpieces. 

Welcome!

Welcome to our school and classroom, Oscar! Oscar comes to our school from China and is beginning to learn English. We watched a cartoon in Mandarin so we could see what it feels like to not understand what people around us are talking about.  This helped us understand a little bit of how Oscar will be feeling as he begins to learn English. It's great that everyone in our class is so friendly and welcoming!