THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH

Our SUPERHERO COMIC pages have been added to our LEARNING PODCASTS site.

If you love SUPERHEROES and comics, then this is the site for you.

Our first issue is THE ADVENTURES OF GREENBAG MAN - THE BATTLE WITH PLASTIC.

This 'good versus evil' tale was written, created and produced by Jacob and Patrick, with expert support from some of our Year 6 blogging buddies.

Will the world be overrun by Plastic or will Greenbag Man's environmental message prove too powerful?

So what are you waiting for?
Just click the cover to view our exciting first issue!

The Ekka

A few years ago I went to the Ekka.
I went on some rides. I went on the dodgem cars. I got some show bags. I got the Thomas the Tank Engine show bag.

I watched some shows.

I watched the wood chop show.

I went home and looked at my show bag stuff.

by JACOB

JACOB'S 'GOOGLE EARTH' FIND

Hi everyone in 1 M! I found these places on Google Earth. Southbank is one my favourite parks and I really like the big buildings in the city.

Have you checked out

'GOOGLE

EARTH' lately?

What are some of your favourite places in our city?

Email in your pictures to 1mgems@gmail.com and we'll share them on our blog!

NUMBER 5 PICS FOR ELIZABETH

This post is brought to you by the number '5'!

16 days ago, Elizabeth, from INKLESS TALES, left a poem for us on our post 'ALL ABOUT 5'. It was a poem about the number '5' and we were the first to read it!

The poem did not have a title and Elizabeth asked for our suggestions. Here are suggested titles we left as comments:
* FAVOURITE FIVE from Lauren
* FABULOUS FIVE from Ben
* SUPER FIVE from Talia
* FIVE PEOPLE HAVING A PICNIC from Callum
* MY FAVOURITE NUMBER IS '5' from Patrick
* PERFECT FIVE from Johanna
* 6 IS NOT MY FAVOURITE NUMBER from Jarvis' Dad
WE WONDER IF ELIZABETH WILL USE ANY OF OUR SUGGESTIONS?

We have also been busy drawing pictures about '5'.
Here are some that have been completed.

'FIVE toes in sneakered feet' by Emily
'FIVE days at school' by Matthew'FIVE windows in my house" by Courtney
'FIVE cats chasing a mouse' by Tierney

'FIVE members in my family' by Jacob (above) and Patrick (below)

'FIVE people from around the world' by Lauren
'FIVE bees' by Max

'FIVE birds in the tree' by Bryce

'FIVE playing basketball' by Laura

'FIVE friends' by Johanna

'FIVE bees in the hive' by Tierney

'FIVE people all different make many colours in the world' by Naomi

KEEP WATCHING AS THERE'S MORE '5' PICTURES TO COME.

WE HOPE YOU CAN USE SOME OF OUR PICTURES, ELIZABETH! :D

MORE ALLITERATION

Jacob brought in his book

ANIMALIA

by Graeme Base.

He had read it many times,

but had never known before

this week, that it was written

using ALLITERATION.

We liked the 'r' page.

Richly robed rhinocerouses

riding ricketty rickshaws.

Be like Jacob, 1M. Be on the 'lookout' for 'ALLITERATION' as you are reading and if you find it being used, bring in the book to share.

Mrs M ;>)

JACOB'S RAD 'R' POEM

Jacob made a number of attempts yesterday to write a poem using 'alliteration'.

He started many times, but found it hard.

Did he say...




NO!!!

Today he started again, with a new idea.

He asked for advice,

He PERSEVERED...

and he 'got it'!

Rockets,

rolling round round-a-bouts,

rumbling,

racing rapidly.


Jacob proved that with PATIENCE and PERSEVERANCE you CAN do it!

And all the ones he started.... he's now going back to finish!

JACOB'S VIP

My VIP is my Dad. He puts in new batteries when the batteries in my games and toys run out.He fixes things up for me when I have trouble making them or they break.

My Dad is VERY HANDY.

KNOWING ALL ABOUT 'N' - WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE?

We do some fun activities to help us learn our letters and the sounds they make.
Sometimes the sounds are tricky.

We talk about what shape our mouth makes when we make the sound.
We think about where our tongue has to go.

Is it on the roof of our mouth? Is it touching your teeth?
Is it a voiced sound or are we pushing air out?

We worked out that when we make the sound of 'n', our mouths are open and our tongue is on the roof of our mouth.

We look at each other and practise making the sound.
Now we won't get confused with 'm'!

We also go on a letter hunt. We put on our special glasses and go looking for words that start with our focus sound.

We look

ALL around the room and write down any words we find.
We also search for the letter, too! We take a photo every time we find it. Look at the n's Sophia found.... on the number chart, the Word Wall Worm and on Naomi's name card.

WE LOVE GOING ON WORD AND LETTER HUNTS!!!

1M where else can you find n? What other words begin with n?

Take a photo, send in a comment. START HUNTING!

OUR FIRST WRITING

Today we wrote in our journals for

the first time.

We tried to use some of our Word

Wall Words or listen to the sounds

we could hear in the words.

Some of us even had SPACES

between the words.

Mrs M was sooo excited and

proud of us.

We are proud of ourselves too.

Tomorrow we want to post our

writing ourselves!!!

(Parents, if you want to take up the challenge of helping your child develop keyboard familiarity and learn finger positioning, check out Dance Mat Typing under our Links section.)