SUPERHERO COMICS - THIS WEEK'S EARLY EDITIONS

Two new Superheroes...
two exciting new comics for you to read.

Check out the adventures of Turtle Girl and SuperBook Girl by clicking here!

IT'S BEEN A DAY (AND WEEK) OF POETRY!

We have been introduced to the world of poetry this week.
*It started with the 'poem about 5' from Elizabeth at INKLESS TALES.
*That inspired us to write a poem for Elizabeth.
*Then after lunch, a poem about '5 firemen' just popped into Bryce's head. He didn't have an ending. That came when we went to the Library because....

GUESS WHAT?
Mrs O read us some poems by Steven Herrick, an Australian children's poet.

We loved 'Lost in the Mist' but our ABSOLUTE favourite was 'Mum and Dad are in Love'.

(1M, you could borrow one of Steven Herrick's books next week - as long as the 'older classes' don't beat you to them. It would be great for Mum, Dad or an older brother or sister to read you some of his funny poems)

Then Mrs O read us 'The Cat on the Mat is Flat' by Andy Griffiths. It had lots of 'at' family words in it.
Next we listened to 'Ed and Ted and Ted's Dog Fred'. We were very clever at picking the rhyming words!
WANT TO LISTEN TO 'ED AND FRED AND TED'S DOG FRED'?

CLICK ON THE BOOK COVER!

You can download 'The Cat on the Mat is Flat' from Andy Griffiths' website. Just click on the 'cat'.
See if you can read it 'ALL BY YOURSELF!

And Bryce's poem?.... You'll have to wait until Monday for that- he wants to post it himself!

While you're waiting, check out the poems on this great site, POETRY 4 KIDS, created by American poet Ken Nesbitt. There are some really funny poems here and he even has links to Steven Herrick!

AND IF YOU ARE INSPIRED....YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO! SHARE YOUR POEMS WITH US BY LEAVING A COMMENT! :>)

OUR FIRST VISIT TO THE LIBRARY!

Today we had our first visit to the new library.


From our classroom, we have to walk along the pathway, past 1G and the Prep rooms, to get to the library.


When we got there, we couldn't see Mrs O, so we called out- "Mrs O, can we come in?"... but she wasn't there!

We saw our library box. We saw an 'igloo' ( we were allowed to sit in it two at a time when Mrs O arrived), but we still couldn't find Mrs O. So we found our own spot and curled up with a book.

At last, Mrs O arrived. She sat on the 'storyteller's seat' and showed us her 'storyteller's cloak'.
Then Mrs O showed us books by her favourite author - Anthony Browne.
We listened to 'WILLY THE WIMP' and enjoyed spotting the differences in 'CHANGES'.

We love the new library, even though it's not quite finished.
We can't wait until we can borrow!

1M, IF YOU WERE GOING TO BORROW AN ANTHONY BROWNE BOOK, WHICH BOX WOULD YOU FIND IT IN?

WHAT ARE WE DOING?

If you have already checked out the author Eric Carle's website you might know why we are painting tissue paper.

This is only the first step in the process. Do you know what we are doing?

Click on the VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR to find out.

LITERACY BLOCK - STORY FOCUS

This week, we are reading one of our favourite books - THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR by Eric Carle.

In one of our Literacy Block activities, we had to sequence pictures of the food the caterpillar ate in the right order.

As an extra challenge, we could also match labels for the days of the week to the food that was eaten on that day.

After lots of discussion, checking of the calendar and re-organizing, we got it!
We were confident, co-operative and clever!

If you'd like to learn more about the life cycle of a butterfly, check out these links.
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle - great site - check out the 'Wiggle Jiggle Dance'

Life Cycle Animation

Cocoon.Org - lots to see and do

Caterpillar coughing...c,c,c!