Calendar Art

Here is our calendar art for this year! If yours is not on here, it is because it is not quite finished. 

We have used our artwork from our inquiry unit on Pop Art.  

Order forms will come home this week!

We also have a folder of our art in class.

Lily K

 Bronson

Molly

William

Leo

Rebecca

Phoebe

Hudson

Lily G

Marcus

Taylor

Brandon

Meg

Rayarn

Jim

Hanna

George

Paige

Imogen

Kandiya

Conner

Lachlan

Carlos

Eva

Jack

Taylar

Meg's Homework

Wow! After reading about endangered animals in her reading group, Meg went home and did extra research about these animals. Well done Meg!

Snakes and Ladders with our buddies

Our buddy is class is Room 17.

With Miss Bassett, we continued learning how to write a set of instructions in writing time.  Writing for the week was to write a set of instructions for the game 'Snakes and Ladders'.  We all made our own game board to go with our instructions.

We met up with our buddies today and played the game with them.

Hopscotch

Mrs Hastings told us of her favourite game hen she was younger. She loved playing hopscotch! She played it at school, at her grandparents, at home and her friends!

Mrs Hastings taught us how to play hopscotch today. We had lots of fun! We are now learning how to write instructions for the game. We will write our own instructions and teach the game to our little buddies in room 17.

Drama Clubs

The school was lucky to see the performances of both drama clubs at assembly this morning! We were so proud of the children from our class involved in the performances! Well done Phoebe, Jess, Paige, Taylor, Lily G, Carlos, Jim, Hudson, Rebecca, Lily K!

Treasure Maps

We combined all our new knowledge of maps, keys and directions to create our own treasure maps!

We have secretly hidden treasure somewhere on our treasure map.  Can you follow the directions we have written and find the treasure?

Click on the 'enlarge' button on each slide to make them full screen!

Maps and Keys

In Maths we have been learning 'Position and Orientation' for Geometry. 

We are learning:

• left and right
• clockwise and anticlockwise
• compass directions - north, south, east and west
• to use fractions - 1/4 a turn, 1/2 a turn
• co-ordinates in a grid.

We have been having lots of fun creating pathways and giving our buddies directions!

Today we incorporated our Maths and Reading to learn about maps.

Through our literacy focus of 'Language, Symbols and Text' we are learning about a key on a map and what the symbols mean.

We can play this game to teach us about keys on a map:

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/multimedia/interactive/maps-tools-adventure-island/kd/?ar_a=3

Taking Action

After a lot of learning about the drought in term 1, we spent a lot of term 2 learning how we can take action about the problems we learnt about.  We discussed that we knew about the importance of saving water, but the younger children at our school probably didn't.  

As a class, and after a lot of discussion, we decided we can teach the young children of our school through a video.  It took a couple of weeks for us to put the video together.  Mrs Hastings was not involved in the making of the video, we did it all on our own.  We choose the topic we wanted to work on, we researched on the topic, we planned our own videos and recorded them ourselves.  Mrs Hastings just pieced all the videos together.  We are very proud of what we have achieved!