Monday, July 23, 2012

Olympic Values

We learnt there are five key Olympic Values:




We discussed and pictures to show what we think each value would look like.
We thought about how it would look at the Olympics or how it looks in our own sports or in the classroom.



Olympic Flag

We learnt about the Olympic Flag today.


We learnt that the five rings represent the five continents and how athletes from around the world meet together to celebrate and compete at the Olympic Games. 


Look at this map with the five continents: 


Can you name the different continents?


-Africa
-the Americas
-Asia
-Europe
-Oceania










There are five colours on the flag: blue, gold, black, red and green.




We learnt the colours do not actually match the continents.  But every country at the Olympics uses at least one of these colours on their own flag.


The flag is raised in the Opening Ceremony and will fly during the whole competition.

Friday, July 20, 2012

Term 3

Welcome to Term 3!

We start the term with a countdown to the Olympic Games.

We have looked at some very interesting websites about the Olympics.  We were very interested in the types of sports included!  

If you scroll down, on the right side of the page, you will find a Symbaloo with links to lots of websites about the Olympics.

Monday, May 28, 2012

Special Item Presentation

We did a lot of background work for our special items:
  • We found an item that is special and treasured by our families.
  • We asked our family about it and why it is special to our family.
  • We brought our item or photos of our item to school.
  • In class we learnt how to write an explanation for it.


Miss Hill then asked us:
"How will you now share all of this information with our class?"

We had a class brainstorm and posters and powerpoint presentations seemed to be favourite options!

We will be spending our class time putting our presentations together. 
 Have a look at the video of us working on our presentations today.  
We are teaching each other new ideas. 
 We are helping each other with our typing and spelling. 
 Some of us are working on our own.  
Some of us are working on our own but checking in with a buddy every now and then.

Keep a look out for our finished presentations in the next couple of weeks!





Omni-Gym

We had our second visit to the Omni-Gym today.
We built on the skills we used last week.
We are very proud of ourselves because we are taking risks and trying something new.


Monday, May 21, 2012

The Omni-Gym

We loved our first session to the Omni-Gym today!

Some of us were quite nervous about it because we had not done anything like this before.  But once we got there and gave it a go we really enjoyed it!

We can't wait for next week!

Thank you very much to the parents who helped us.




Monday, April 30, 2012

Autumn Writing

We are starting our term with a writing focus on Autumn.

We are learning how to use our 'Writers Notebooks' to jot our ideas and write our observations to help us with our writing.






We took our notebooks outside and enjoyed the Autumn morning.  It was beautiful!

Of course we played in the leaves first!!





You can look at our process of writing our Autumn Poems.  We plan to publish these on the website 'Storybird' so keep an eye out in the next few weeks!





Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Term 2

Welcome to Term 2!

Miss Hill missed all your smiley faces over the holidays.  I am looking forward to another fun and busy term!