CALLUM'S WRITING TIPS #1

When you are writing
and you need to know how to spell a word, think where the word could be around the room.
Today I needed the word 'cake' and I remembered that it was on the blog.
So don't forget to look at the blog when you need a word...it might be there!

A VOLCANO FOR NEWS???

YES!
Johanna did bring in a VOLCANO for 'TALK TIME'... a VOLCANO
she had made! Her interest in VOLCANOES came from seeing them in
GOOGLE EARTH.
Johanna explained how she made the model of the VOLCANO.
The red alfoil strips represent the lava.

Johanna also showed how some people, who live near a VOLCANO, have to run to safety when the VOLCANO erupts.

If you want to learn more about VOLCANOES, click on Johanna's.

LIBRARY BORROWING LIKE IN THE 'OLDEN DAYS'

When we went to the Library today, Mrs O'B wasn't there and the program to scan out our books was shut down!

Mrs M told us we could still borrow but we would have to be patient as she needed to write down which books we were borrowing.

We worked out that Mrs M was writing down our ID number and the second half of the barcode on the book.
That looked easy, so we offered to help!




We made Mrs M's job easier by calling out the numbers for her. We were even two steps ahead of her, by having the books from the next two children on the list before she had even called their names!!
Mrs M was AMAZED at how CLEVER and EFFICIENT we were.

Thankyou, my SPARKING GEMS!

What THOUGHTFULNESS, HELPFULNESS and INITIATIVE you possess!

WATCH OUT, LIBRARY and COMMUNICATION TEAM!
Mrs M :>)

MY WEEKEND WORK by JARVIS

BRAVO TO JARVIS, THE FIRST TO EMAIL TO 1mgems@gmail.com

HERE'S HIS POST!!

Hi Mrs M and 1mgems,

I have done a word wall words and I have made some good patterns.

The repeating pattern colour is abcde and the shape pattern is abccb.
The growing pattern is a growing, growing, shrinking pattern.

I had to teach my dad how to do the growing growing, shrinking pattern, I think he now understands.

BILLEE-JANE'S CREATION!

Billee-Jane had a surprise for us this morning.

She was busy last night being a CREATOR and DESIGNER.

Look at the letter 'r' finger puppet she made!

She used felt, stiched the sides together and glued on some eyes.

We think it's REALLY RAD!

JARVIS AND JOHANNA'S TOOTH TALE!

When Jarvis bit into his hotdog today, his wobbly tooth fell out!

He thought he had swallowed it, but luckily he found it in his hotdog.

While Jarvis went to the office to get the 'special envelope' for the Tooth Fairy, Johanna came up

with this poem.

8 little teeth

in the mouth

One fell out

and it said

"Ouch!"

Another fell out

and said "Ouch!"

Now there are 6 teeth

in the mouth.

AMAZING 1M - YOU'RE WORKING EVEN DURING LUNCH!

SPOTLIGHT ON MAX!

An '8' poem sent in by MAX last night.

'8' is round,
'8' is cool,
'8' is what I learnt at school!

JARVIS' DAD'S RAD 'R' POEM

Red

Robots

Racing

Ragged

Rabbits.



Red Rhinos

Racing

Rollerblading

Roses.

Red Rockets

Racing

Rascal Rats.

THANKYOU MR C FOR SHOWING US HOW IT'S DONE! :>)

NAOMI'S RAD 'R' POEM

Rory

in a race,

racing roosters

round a road.

FLYNN'S RAD 'R' POEM

Rabbits

racing

rhinos

round

round-a-bouts.

ALISTAIR'S RAD 'R 'POEM

Rabbits
race raccoons,
race
round
rocks.

BILLEE-JANE'S RAD 'R' POEM

Rabbits
racing
round
round-a-bouts
running
round in
rings.

'RATE OUR '8' POEMS

Here are some poems about '8' that were left as comments.

We wanted to post them so EVERYONE can see them.

Billee-Jane wrote:

Eight, Eight,

Don't be late!

Alistair wrote:

8 flowers running to their friends

to play a special game

one fell over now he has to try again

Johanna wrote:

I like the number eight because it makes me want to eat a snake!!!!!!
Her Dad wrote:

I like the number eight

because it makes me want to rollerskate!

Jarvis wrote:

Eight rabbits late

For a very important date

Open gate, Open gate

I'm on a very important date.
(Jarvis got the idea for this poem from a well known story. Can you guess what it is?)


HOW DO YOU RATE OUR POEMS?

DO YOU HAVE A POEM ABOUT '8'?

PLEASE SHARE WITH US IN A COMMENT.

PATRICK'S RAD 'R' POEMS!

Rascally rabbit

and

Roadrunner

race rhinos

round rocks.

Red

racingcars

go

round

roses.


Roadrunner

races

Rooster

round

rollercoasters.