Building buddy class relationships

Earlier this term, room 4 began circle time as a way to focus on our key competencies and building relationships within our class. Today it was really enjoyable to be able to share some of the fun and exciting activities we have learnt in circle time with our little buddies. We all had such a great time, laughing, problem solving and thinking together. Thanks for an awesome afternoon room 7!

Senior Winter Sport Rotation

Yesterday we got under way with our senior winter sport rotation. We started off with soccer. We learnt how to pass and stop a ball, dribble the ball with our feet as we move, and we even did some goal shooting. We ended a great session with a fun game of soccer where we were able to put soem of our skills to the test! 

Pirate Day!

As part of Our Oceans inquiry unit there has been some learning around pirates so we all dressed up as pirates! It was awesome to see everyone make such a huge effort with their costumes and boy did everyone look great! We designed our own pirate flags, created treasure maps and solved pirate puzzles as part of a whole school buddy activity. It was fun working with lots of different kids!

We had a really fun pirate day!

Wheely Wonderful Wheeling

WOW!! We had a super day wheeling around!!! The weather was eventually kind to us allowing us to finally get out and have some fun. There were a few crashes but most got up with a smile on their face and carried on. We all had a wheely good time and cannot wait for wheels day again next year. Check out our action shots!

Under the ocean art

Last week we created under the ocean art as part of our oceans inquiry unit. We shared our pieces of art in assembly.
Our art turned our really cool. We used paintbrushes, sponges and even our fingers. They are all super colourful and bright and we are really proud of them.

Successful Circle Time

On Tuesday, Mrs Harris came and taught us how to learn without any books or pens. We learnt about circle time where we use the most powerful computer in the world..... OUR BRAIN!

We are going to be participating in circle time each week, this term, to learn and engage with our values (AAA) and practice our key competencies.

Some of the things we learnt were that you don't always need to speak with words to communicate, there is many different ways to find a partner e.g. finding the other half to a post card, and we learnt different ways to greet each other without speaking. We certainly enjoyed rubbing elbows to say hello.

We enjoyed learning valuable skills through playing multiple games, making silent statements, playing a name game and noticing other peoples successes throughout the session.

We are looking forward to circle time, next week!!

Upcoming Events

Look out everyone!!! We have exciting events coming up FAST!!!!! It is the student council's pleasure to inform you of 2 very CRAZY, COOL days!!

Be organised and ready to go for.........

Term 1 buddy wrap up!

We finished up the term enjoying a fun game with our buddy class. We played bat down! We were able to help our little buddies with their batting and ball throwing and catching skills. It was loads of fun and we even witnessed some awesome catches!! See you next term little buddies

COLOUR DAY!!

Colour Day was an absolute blast. We all had a colourful time, had many laughs and looked extremely bright! The parade was a hoot and Miss Fleet thought we had some groovy moves! At lunch time we were lucky enough to enjoy some yummy spiders! They were delicious.

We love dress up days in room 4!

Bee-utiful Bees

We were very lucky to have Mr Henderson come to visit us yesterday. Mr Henderson is a bee keeper and he came to share with us his expert knowledge, and his experiences as a bee keeper. He talked to us about pollination, a bees life, how honey is made and shared many interesting stories. We learnt many new things, and Mr Henderson was also very impressed with how much we already knew and all the awesome things we have been learning about bees in class. We were able to ask Mr Henderson all the questions we wanted answers to. At the end of the session, we were able to taste Mr Henderson's honey from his bees. It was delicious, and he explained to us why it was a little grainy.

We had an absolutely awesome afternoon with the bee keeper and were very thankful for his visit!

THANK YOU, MR HENDERSON!

Pollination Process Shared Writing

Yesterday, we watched a video about  how bees pollinate and how important pollination is in our world.
Then, we wrote a piece of shared writing explaining in our own words how pollination happens. We were learning to use key words to help us write the process in the correct order and to use the correct terminology.

Here's what we wrote:

Bees pollinate flowers 24/7 without meaning to. Bees fly from flower to flower collecting pollen grains on their pollen baskets. Pollen comes from a flower and it lives on the ends of the stamen (male part of the flower). When the bee is on a flower the pollen rubs onto them. Bees then fly to another flower and the pollen dusts off onto the stigma which is the top of the pistil (the female part of the flower). The pollen drifts down the pistil into the ovule where it fertilisers the eggs to become seeds (which are the new life).

Room 4 certainly are beginning to really understand the pollination process by bees.

Interschool Athletics

Well done to Rhianna, Ashlee H, and Georgia who represented us at the interschool athletics yesterday! There was a mixture of results. Rhianna came 2nd in long jump for the yr 5/6 girls. The girls had a great day, tried their very best and are hoping to participate again next year.