MEET LAUREN'S CRAYFISH

Here is Ryan's and my pet crayfish.

His name is 'BIG CLAW', which is very apt at the moment because when he last shed his shell, one of his claws didn't make it. He will grow a new one in time.

He lives in a tank and we feed him pellets.

He's a COOL pet.
Click on the picture of 'BIG CLAW' to learn more about keeping crayfish as pets or TALK to Lauren!

CALLUM'S HOLIDAY NEWS!

Hi Mrs M and 1M.

I have had a wonderful holiday. I went to Townsville to visit some friends. We went on an aeroplane. It was fun. The Easter Bunny found us even though we weren't at home. He sent us on a Easter Egg Hunt. I found my eggs in the Linen Cupboard. Because it was so hot, my Dad took us to the water park where there is a big water bucket that fills up and spills down over everybody. We also went to the Anzac Memorial Park in Townsville. It was really interesting. On the way home, the plane had some problems with the bags, so an Air Hostess took my brother and I to meet the pilots. Cool!!!!
See you all next week,
Love Callum

FLYNN'S HOLIDAY NEWS!

Hi Mrs M and 1M!

I hope you are all having a great holiday! I’ve just come back from my grandparents farm at Esk! We had so much fun there!
I helped feed the cows and goats and went for rides on the tractor.

We made an Easter egg tree and ate toasted hot cross buns. I woke up very early on Easter Sunday morning and went hunting for eggs at 6am!

We ate chocolate for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We went to church then we played barefoot lawn bowls in the afternoon.

I am very tired now but can’t wait to catch up with what’s happening on the blog!

See you all soon
Flynn

Click HERE to see where Esk is.....Mrs M

NAME THIS PLACE!

Does anyone know what this building is?

Benny

(http://earth.google.com)

Can you name the place in Ben's picture?

How can you check if you're right?

Leave you answer in a comment and email another 'GOOGLE EARTH' CHALLENGE to 1mgems@gmail.com.

A WORD FROM JARVIS

I know some animals which shed skin,
SNAKES and CICADAS do.

I have found the skin of CICADAS stuck to the sides of trees.

(Here is a movie I found of a cicada moulting. Click on the picture of the cicada on the left and you will go to a site where you can read more about cicadas....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.

WHAT DOES A 'HICCUP' LOOK LIKE?

On Monday, we received another surprise from Elizabeth at INKLESS TALES. There are now 3 videos from her in our 'SECRET' part of INKLESS TALES.

There were lots of questions to answer, so we sent Elizabeth an EMAIL and we attached some RECORDINGS for her. They were : 1) a 'Hello' from us 2) us singing our 'National Anthem' 3) us singing 'dancing donuts'.
Elizabeth told us about a problem she has.
Elizabeth is writing a poem about a man who has the 'HICCUPS'.
Her problem is: WHAT DO 'HICCUPS' LOOK LIKE?
COULD WE HELP HER?
OF COURSE WE CAN!!!
Here's what WE think 'HICCUPS' look like!

Naomi's 'Hiccup' has 3 legs and it's the purple gloves that give you the 'Hiccups'!

Tierney's 'Hiccup' is very hairy!

Flynn's 'Hiccup' has long fingers that 'tickle' you and give you the 'Hiccups'!

Bryce's 'Hiccup' has lots of arms!

Emily's 'Hiccup' has lots of claws. Maybe that's what causes 'Hiccups'!

Patrick's 'Hiccup' is curved to fit in your throat.

Talia thinks 'Hiccups' are spiky!

Brooke's 'Hiccup' has lots of eyes to see where to 'Hiccup' you!

Callum thinks 'Hiccups' have long arms.

Billee-Jane's 'Hiccup' is a big square with lots of colourful hair all over it. You 'hiccup' invisible fluff balls because he is hairy. When his adult hair grows, the baby hair falls out and that's what you 'hiccup'.

WE EMAILED THESE OFF TO ELIZABETH, TOO. WE HOPE WE'VE HELPED HER SOLVE HER PROBLEM. WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ THE POEM!

IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT A 'HICCUP' LOOKS LIKE, DRAW IT AND SEND IT IN TO US. WE'LL PASS IT ON THE ELIZABETH. :>)

OUR BIG SURPRISE!

We came to school excited today because we couldn't wait to see if Elizabeth from Inkless Tales had left a comment about the poem we sent her.

We had Naomi's and Ben's Mums in to help us put comments on our blog and 1G's and 6J's. When they asked us what we wanted to do, we said: "WE JUST WANT TO WRITE TO ELIZABETH"!

So they helped us add our ideas about what Elizabeth should call the poem about 5.

We kept asking Mrs M what time it was in New York.
We wondered if while we were doing Word Wall, if she was having dinner and while we were having our lunch, if she was reading her children a story before bed.

We sent Elizabeth an email. It said:

'Please look at the blog because there's something special for you on it.'

She posted back that she LOVED our poem and that she had a SURPRISE for US... but we had to wait. Read her full comment HERE!

(Just scroll down to the comments.)

At 2:55pm, just before we went home, the SURPRISE arrived.

Click on the 'CHECK IT OUT' graphic to see the SURPRISE.


WHAT A LOVELY WAY TO FINISH THE WEEK.

THANKYOU ELIZABETH, YOU MADE OUR DAY!

Want to 'talk' to Elizabeth, 1M? Leave a comment on this post.

If you have more ideas about a title for the '5' poem, leave a comment about them too.

MRS M :>)