Saturday, June 28, 2014

More Discovery Time Learning

Making Soup..Wood work.. Loom Bands..Painting..Wooden Blocks..Creating Puppet shows on the iPads..
This week we had some helpful Room 2 children come through to us and teach us how to make Loom Band bracelets. We also had and expert wood worker to show us some skills at our wood work table. We made yummy vegetable soup and ate it for lunch...ooh it was good!




The Big Rain

This week at school we had a big rain storm. We used this opportunity to write some stories about what the rain looked like, sounded like and felt like...


The rain felt like rain on my head and water bullets.
Skylah

The rain got on Room 4 deck. I felt cold.
Thomas

I felt the rain it was like bullets smashing onto my arm. I heard the rain smashing onto the ground. But then it came into a rainstorm.
Lucas

I felt the rain it felt like bark hitting me.
Ellamae

The rain felt like water bullets.
Hunter

The rain felt like cold. It was super cold.
Makayla

The rain was like icicles splashing down on my top.
Frances

The rain felt like bullets smashing on my head.
Dresden

The rain looked like a flashing light going on Room 4’s deck.
Noah

The rain went split splot. The rain felt like a tornado.
Morgan

When the rain fell down it went splish splosh.
Seraphina

I felt the raindrops.
Kayla

The rain looked blurry and the rain felt freezing
Aaron

The rain felt like ice hitting me.
Evangeline

The rain felt like a cold bath and ice. It looked like shooting bombs.
Chloe

The rain felt like bullets and it fell on the roof.
Kayden

The rain felt like ice bumping on my jacket. It was cool!
Wyatt

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Two or three times a term each class at Hope School goes to the TDC Library in Richmond. This is a great time to enjoy a huge range of books, either by ourselves, with a friend, or with our parent helpers.

Discovery Time Week 7

This week we enjoyed some more fun times together during Discovery Time.

Thursday, June 19, 2014

New iPads...

Mrs Ross has shown us some new activities where we need to work together with the iPads. We have also been working together on the computers. This afternoon we had another session with our new iPads and tried more of these activities.
Oh what fun!!



The letter "y"

Yesterday we were practising to write the letter y. We are very proud of our letters...what do you think?


Monday, June 9, 2014

Wet Day

Noah and Lucas were busy during our wet lunch playtime creating this amazing structure.
Well done boys you must have been working together!



Saturday, June 7, 2014

Discovery Time

During Discovery Time this week we were learning how to 'work together' .....We showed how good we were at this while working on a group painting and while sharing the equipment we were using. Great work Room 3!

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Cross Country at Rabbit Island

What a beautiful day we had for our Cross Country this year... Room 3 ran their little hearts out as they stormed past me taking photos. Some of them ran so fast I missed them totally with the camera..Sorry guys.


Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Special People

Today we read one of Mercer Mayer's books called "Just me and My Dad" (one of my favourites)

Then we talked about the special people in our lives and the things we do together....
We wrote stories about these special people....
Our stories had to start the same:

My special person is............................. I like spending time with them because…...




My special person is Aaron. I like spending time with Aaron because… I can ask him to come to my house. We play outside. We build a house.
By Thomas

My special person is Todd. I like spending time with them because…We play in the garden.
By Kayden

My special person is my family. I like spending time with them because…I go to the beach and find shells.
By Frances

My special person is Thomas. I like spending time with them because… I like playing with him and I like inviting him to my house.
By Aaron

My special person is my Mum. I like spending time with them because…we went in the garden.
By Makayla

My special person is Mum. I like spending time with them because…we go to the beach. We make sandcastles.
By Kayla

My special person is my Dad. I like spending time with them because…me and Dad go possum hunting!
By Rylie

My special person is my cousins. I like spending time with them because…we play games with my Teddies.
By Noah

My special person is Rylie. I like spending time with them because…we make traps together.
By Dresden

My special person is Harrison. I like spending time with them because…we play games on his phone.
By Evangeline

My special person is Mum. I like spending time with them because…we play chess… I lose.
By Seraphina

My special person is Logan. I like spending time with them because…we play the games on the T.V and I go first.
By Wyatt

My special person is Dad. I like spending time with them because… we like to go to the beach and we collect shells.
By Skylah

My special person is my sister. I like spending time with them because…we go to the beach and collect shiny shells. Visitors came to our house.
By Chloe

My special person is my brother’s. I like spending time with them because…I play on the iPad and play mine craft! We play lego. The big black lego set is amazing and only has grey and black.
By Morgan

My special person is my Dad. I like spending time with them because…I do jobs with my Dad. I do racking and I go down to the river and I do skimmers with rocks.
By Lucas