ASSEMBLY DAY AGAIN!

It's Wednesday and that means Assembly.
The 1M GEMS who received awards this week were:

*Isabella - a 'Super Sentence Maker', especially with the word 'and'

*Jack- a 'Word Wall Whizz' in the making

*Courtney - for adding *SPARKLE* to our room with your smile and love of learning

*Bryce - our resident 'ideas' man (including 3 new word wall cheers today - more about them tomorrow)

Our ENVIRONMENT TEAM lead the Assembly today.

As part of CLEAN UP SCHOOLS DAY last week, they encouraged us to be creative with recyclable materials.

Here are some of the AMAZING creations.

Year 6J made some stunning hats out of old news papers.

The year 4's recycled plastic bags for their creations.

We thought the turtle and the swan were AWESOME!
CLICK ON THE TURTLE TO LEARN WHY PLASTICS ARE HARMFUL TO OUR SEA LIFE.

But both Prep classes had the best. They used plastic bottletops for their creation.
They called him BOTTLETOP BILL!

Before you throw your items in the recycling bin, think about what you could make.

Bring in your creation to show!

MRS M'S BACK AND WE DID 'GO MATHS'!

COOL!! That's what we said when Mrs M said we were working in our 'GO MATHS' books today.
It was our first time working in this book.

We felt very grown up!

We did some activities on patterning. We had to continue a pattern or draw in the missing part. It was REALLY easy because we do patterning ALL the time!

Are you a 'PATTERNING PERFECTO', 1M? Can you continue these patterns?

1.Let's start with an easy one.

Continue it on two places - they are........, .............
What type of pattern is this?

2.Now try this one - it's trickier.

What comes next?
This pattern is a _ _ _ _ pattern.

3. This one seems a little harder, but it's not.

Where will the stars on the next two wreaths be? Top? Bottom? Left? Right?

They will be ........, ...........

What type of pattern is this one?

4.You're a real PATTERNING PERFECTO if you can get this one!

Continue this pattern on for 5 places-........, ........, ........, ........, ........

Can you name this pattern in two ways?

It's an _ _ pattern or if you look closely, it's an _ _ _ _ _ pattern.

LET'S SEE HOW MANY OF YOU ARE A PATTERNING PERFECTO!

POST A COMMENT WITH YOUR ANSWERS!!

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?

WE CAN DO IT, MRS M!

We have been 'busy bees' working on our blog this week because we have had special helpers EVERY DAY!


Today when Mrs M went to make the 'sign-up' sheet we said- "WE CAN DO IT, MRS M".

We copied the words 'Sign up to comment' from yesterday's sheet.

Mrs M wrote the Mum's names for us .
Then we added in the dots for our names... and started signing up!

It takes a while for us to make a sign-up sheet and 'sign up' each day.

We decided it would be faster if we had a laminated 'sign-up' sheet so we just have to add the names each day.

We also thought it was a good idea to 'sign-up' the afternoon before so we would be ready the next morning.

WHAT A SUPER IDEA, 1M. HOW CLEVER YOU ARE!
YOU CAN HELP CREATE ONE ON MONDAY!

MRS M.

PROJECT COMPASSION

Yesterday we went to the church for the PROJECT COMPASSION launch.

We listened to the 'JUSTICE TEAM' tell us about how we could help poor people in our world.

Each class was given a PROJECT COMPASSION BOX.

We put ours on our prayer table.

WE hope we can raise lots of money for the poor.

Some of us are going to give up our 'iceblock money' and others are going to do extra jobs at home.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

SPOTLIGHT WORK - THE LAST FOR THE WEEK!

Look how clever we are getting!

Our sentences are getting longer and more interesting.


We are now using the word 'and' to join ideas.

Instead of 'the' or 'a' we are using words like 'my'. It changes the whole meaning of the sentence.

We worked hard at learning this week's words. Some of us could even jumble up the letters, then glue them down in the right order!

We were 'Super Story Sequencers' too! This 'Very Hungry Caterpillar' activity also helped us start to learn the words for the days of the week.



1M, your work this week has been MAGIC!

You are WIZARDS at WORKING WITH WORDS!!
Click on the wizard to hear a story about WORDS!

DO YOU HAVE TO BE A TEACHER TO TEACH?

Today EVERYONE wanted to post or comment to our blog. Look how long our 'sign- up' queues were!

We're glad we had Lauren's Mum and Mrs Duffy to help us.

Lauren's Mum helped us with our comments.
She didn't type for us today - we did the typing OURSELVES!
She taught us how to use the SPACEBAR to put in the spaces between the words.

We learnt how to hold down the SHIFT key when we need to type a CAPITAL letter.

Lauren's Mum also showed

us which key we needed to push if we wanted to use a FULLSTOP.

We took a long time to type, but Lauren's Mum was very patient. She was a great TEACHER.

Bryce, Laura, Johanna, Brooke and Ben worked with Mrs Duffy. They posted their stories. They were proud of themselves because THEY had taught Mrs Duffy how to post.
This got us thinking.... Do you have to be a 'TEACHER' to TEACH?
NO!!!!...we are ALL 'TEACHERS'.

WE had a big discussion about what WE could TEACH others.
Naomi and Kimi are EXPERTS at cartwheels. Jacob said he'd like to learn how to do them and he could TEACH someone how to ride a bike.
But what if you wanted to learn how to draw?... or tie your shoelaces?

Who would you go to?
You now have to think 1M....WHAT AM I GOOD AT? WHAT COULD I TEACH OTHERS HOW TO DO?

Post a comment to let us know how YOU can be a TEACHER.

Parents too.... WHAT COULD YOU TEACH US?

OUR 'JIGAREE' STORIES

We have been reading 'The Jigaree' in class. There are seven words from our Word Wall that are in the Jigaree story - I, can, see, a, it, is and me. We enjoyed 'The Jigaree' so much that we thought we could 'innovate' on this story. That means we could use the pattern of the words in this story to help us write our own stories.

Here is Johanna's story:

I can see the rain
It is pouring on me.
Pouring here,
Pouring there,
Rain is pouring everywhere.


Here is Bryce's story:

I can see a yellow bin
It is filled with rubbish..
Rubbish here
Rubbish there
Bins filled with rubbish everywhere.



Here is Laura's story:

I can see the pink flower
It is wet in the rain
Wet here
Wet there
Flowers are wet everywhere.

Here is Brooke's story:

I can see a plant
It is moving in the rain
Moving here
Moving there
Plants are moving everywhere.

Here is Ben's story:

I can see the raindrops
Dripping from the sail
Raindrops here
Raindrops there
Raindrops dripping everywhere.

Would you like to add a story to our collection?
Leave a comment with your ideas.
Keep watching for more of our stories!

(THANKYOU MRS DUFFY FOR HELPING US WITH THIS POST - we love working with you!)
Johanna, Bryce, Laura, Brooke and Ben