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!

RED GROUP FUNNY FACE STORY

Yesterday I made a funny face. My friends did too. We framed our funny faces. My funny face was freaky! My funny face frightened my friends. We had fantastic fun making funny faces.

This story was written collaboratively by RED Group. Each member contributed a sentence.

FUNNY FACES CAROUSEL

We were exploring the letter'f' today.

One of our 'workbook' activities asked us

to draw a FUNNY FACE in a photo FRAME.

We thought it would be FUN to make a

FANCY FRAME and take photos of us pulling

FUNNY FACES.

Here's the FINISHED slideshow.

'GOOGLE EARTH' WORKSHOPS

'GOOGLE EARTH' has been the talk of our classroom this week.
All of us have been waiting excitedly for Jarvis and Ben to teach
us how to use 'GOOGLE EARTH'.

Today the wait was over for some of us - the 'GOOGLE EARTH' WORKSHOPS began!

Jarvis and Ben showed us how to open

GOOGLE EARTH.
We learnt to type what we wanted to look for in the SEARCH bar.

Searching for volcanoes was very popular.

We found lots

in ICELAND.

We also found some in AFRICA and if

we clicked on the little white balls, we could see a picture and read about these volcanoes.

We wanted to explore SYDNEY in

GOOGLE EARTH because that's where

Courtney went on the holidays.
We found the spelling of 'Sydney' in her

writing journal and typed it into the

SEARCH bar.




She found Sydney Harbour and showed us where the OPERA HOUSE, DARLING HARBOUR and TARONGA ZOO are.

We read about LUNA PARK and wished we had somewhere like that here.

We had fun clicking on all the little white balls and looking at pictures of all the things you can see in SYDNEY.

Courtney even found the building where her unit was.

Now that's amazing!


We had SOOOO much fun exploring our world with GOOGLE EARTH.

We wanted to play on Google Earth ALL DAY!!!

Jarvis and Ben were EXCELLENT teachers and now four more of us can help in the 'GOOGLE EARTH' WORKSHOPS.

REMEMBER, IF YOU FIND SOMETHING AMAZING ON 'GOOGLE EARTH', EMAIL IT TO US AT 1mgems@gmail.com . THEN WE CAN POST IT ON THE BLOG AND WE CAN ALL SHARE IN THE WONDERS OF OUR WORLD.

NEW LITERACY BLOCK FUN

This week the spotlight was on a new 'LITERACY BLOCK' activity.

Now that we know ALL the vowels and NEARLY all of the consonants, we can have fun being WORD DETECTIVES.

We SEARCH for MISSING letters.

This week we had to think about what sound the words began with, because the letters were MISSING from the

BEGINNING of words.


We were all ACE WORD

DETECTIVES
and we can't wait for our next case of
MISSING LETTERS!

If you have any ideas for our MISSING LETTERS activity, please email them to 1mgems@gmail.com . Our detectives love to have cases to work on!

WRITING WIZARDS

We couldn't wait to get back to school
and write about all the exciting things
we did on the holidays.

Mrs M said we have been 'WRITING WIZARDS' this week.

Here are some of the 'MAGIC' things we have been doing.

We have been 're-reading' to make sure that our writing makes sense.We are remembering where we can find words we need .... sometimes they're even on the blog!Some of us are using a 'SPACEMAN'-
to help us remember to put 'spaces' between words. Others of us are putting 'TRAFFIC LIGHTS' on our page to help us start writing in the correct spot and to write from LEFT to RIGHT.

Keep watching for more of our 'MAGIC' writing, coming soon.

... for PARENTS.

Welcome back, everyone!

Due to changes in our 'Specialist' timetable,
please note the following changes to our routines:

* SPORTS UNIFORM - now MONDAY and THURSDAY.

* Tuesday MORNING reading is now Tuesday AFTERNOON.

Art lessons begin on Friday. The children need a large, old shirt for these lessons. Please send in by Friday.

For those of you who have not yet caught up with posts made over the Easter break, there are some new links on the side bar to sites that you can use to support your child's literacy and numeracy. There's also a link for you to download extra copies of the sight word sheets sent home in the reading folder.
Just head to the sidebar under LINKS or to be taken directly to the relevant post, click HERE.

LAUNCHING INTO 'L'

We are back for a new term and we LAUNCHED ourselves into LEARNING by making a LIST of 'L' words!

locket
Lulu
lump
leaf
lady
lucky

Lord
lovely
lettuce
light


Lara
licence
Lachlan
lizard
lake

lipstick
look
Laura
laugh
log

lobster
lasso
lot
lantern
life


lion
little

lice
lemons
love

ladybeetle
lyre
lightning
ladybird

like

letterbox

letter
Lauren

land

lid
lighthouse
Luke

library
loan
lyrebird

lego
ladder
Lent
leg

lamb

lifesaver

learn

Liam

leader

lesson

lava lamp

lollipop

Lucy

learning

Loony

lead

That's a lot of 'l' words, 1M... but there's LOADS more!
LET"S LENGHTEN the LIST!
Don't have your words LEFT out.
It's not too LATE - LEAVE your 'l" words in a comment.