SOPHIA'S EKKA

I'm not gowing too the Ekka but last year I went.

It was fun and I saw chikins. Ooe it was so noyzee.

But I didnt mind it I saw a daymshin they aer so coot.


by Sophia

LOOK WHAT WE'VE GOT TO SHOW

We have had lots of INTERESTING things brought in for TALK TIME lately. Here are some of our favourites.

Alistair said, "This is my pet fish.

He is a Goldfish. His name is Lachie.

That's my Dad's name too!

Every time I feed him, he comes right up to the top of the tank and gobbles it right up."

Sophia said, " These are 'lamb bones'. They were left over from the lamb we had for dinner. Mum washed and cleaned them. I don't know what part of the lamb they came from. Can you figure it out?

Johanna said, " My Granny's neighbour found this snake skin. It's from a PYTHON. They found it in their backyard. When my Granny first gave it to me, I was a bit scared! The snake got TOO big for it's skin, so it slid out and it had a new layer underneath. It keeps making new skin every time it gets BIGGER!

Emily said, " I have two things to show. This is part of a horse's hoof. I found it when I went to horseriding. It's like a piece of toenail."

"This is a little seahorse that my uncle caught when he went fishing. He was trying to catch a fish but got the seahorse. It's very tiny and feels hard."

Max said, " My grandma gave me these pictures. The 'dinosaur' was made by tearing up little bits of coloured paper and gluing them onto the picture.

The fish is a 'sand' picture. You put glue on the picture and sprinkle coloured sand over it."

This is the 'hand' I took to the 'Broncos' game. I waved it when the Broncos scored. They played the 'Cowboys' and they lost.

Jarvis said, " This is a mosquitofish. It is a pest in Australia. It eats the the baby mosquitoes and other insects.

Billee-Jane said, " I did these drawings. My Mum is teaching me to draw.

Matthew said, " I wear this shirt at football. It is my training shirt. I wear another shirt when i play and I get that at the game. My shorts are blue too. I play for the Wynnum Bugs."

Callum said, " My brother found this seed pod when he went on his excursion to St Helena Island. You can see it had 5 seeds in it. They were very big seeds.

THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE INCREDIBLE AND AMAZING THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT IN TO SHARE.

WE HAVE LEARNT SO MUCH ABOUT EACH OTHER AND OUR WORLD, HOW THINGS WORK AND HOW TO DO THINGS.

WHAT WILL YOU BRING INTO SHARE AT YOUR NEXT TALK TIME?

LEAVE A CLUE IN A COMMENT! :>)

GROWING PATTERNS

Today we explored GROWING patterns.

GROWING patterns do not repeat.

They GROW!

First we created our patterns. Some were GROWING, some looked like they were SHRINKING and some looked like they did both!

Then we took one part of our pattern away.

Others had to look closely at our pattern and work out the rule we had used to make our pattern.

Then they put back the missing part.

No-one was tricked.

WE WERE JUST ALL TOO CLEVER!

What ideas do you have for a GROWING pattern?

Make one at home. Draw it or now you can take a photo of it and email it to 1mgems@gmail.com

Sophia's VIP

My VIP is my piano teacher. She listens to me play. There are a couple of kids and she puts on music. She teaches me new things each time.

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!