Be bright eat right

Wow

Today has been fantastic we saw the be bright eat right magic show with lots of magic tricks. The magician was amazing (Tayla)

The magician did funny tricks. Amelia from our school went up to help the magician and she was trying to get a ball on a rope to stay in the bottle but it kept falling out (Liam)

We also had a master chef competition between the girls and the boys to see who could make the best fruit salad. The boys won! We had the lovely colours for our fruit salad. The girls won the best best decorations (Lachlan Scott).

Be bright eat right

The magician had a box and fire came out. It was really magic!(Ella)

Masterchef - Fruit salad challenge

         
                              This is the boys making their fruit salad in room 14

We had all kind of fruit, including bananas, apples, pineapples, mango, fejoa......

We also made menus 

We washed our hands before we made the salad!

Just like Masterchef the presentation is important!

                            Mrs Gulbransen came in to judge the fruit salad. This is the boys. (Harry)

                                                                     This is the girls

Cultural Diversity and WoW week

For the past few weeks we have been focussing our topic work on cultural diversity. Within our syndicate we looked at ways different cultures celebrate birthdays.

On Friday we had a celebration day where we looked at all the learning from around the school and then celebrated with a shared cultural lunch. Here are a few photos from the celebration

Our flag ceremony

Some students came in National costume

Kapa Haka group

A traditional Samoan game

Chinese checkers

Festival celebrations from around the world

Festival celebrations

Shaolin display

Rocky takes on one of the warriors

Happy Birthday in Spanish assisted by Diego

Piniata 

Samoan cultural group from Broadgreen

WoW Week:

This week is a wow week with a focus on being bright and eating right. Today we made bread in our class bread maker. The students took part in making the bread, watching the dough rise and then baking. At the end of the process we ate our creation YUM !!  We have written down the steps involved in making bread. See if your son or daughter can remember all the steps involved using the photos.

McDonalds- We have started an observation of what happens to a cheeseburger when left. Here is our first day photo. We expect that after a few days the burger might start to deteriorate Watch and see.

Day 1

Term 2

We have started Term 2 with lots of exciting things in room 14. Our Cultural celebration is taking place next week on Thursday 19 May. Awa syndicate is focussing on the ways different cultures celebrate Birthdays. In room 14 we have been busy making invitations. other classes are working on games, songs and activities to do with the ways different cultures recognise and celebrate birthdays.

Writing:

As part of our regular focus on writing we are celebrating Deklan's top quality writing this week. Deklan's story about thunder and lightning was recognised by Mrs Gulbransen as being top quality work. His story is below

"When there is thunder and lightning I go to my mums room and get in her bed! I pull the covers up. Once I got scared and after a little while I looked out the window and then boom boom went the lightning. It was dark outside and in my room. I went downstairs to get a torch and when I had the torch I went back up the stairs and got back in my bed and turned the torch on. Then my dad came in and told me it's ok and then he got in bed with me and then he told me a story. A spooky story. I wasn't scared anymore. The end. "

Maths : 

We are focussing on geometry and skip counting in 2's 5's and 10's. To support at home it would be great if you could count with your child in 2's, 5's and 10's to support the learning the they are doing at school. With geometry get them to identify geometric shapes they come across in everyday life. Get them to describe the shape telling you about it.

Farewell Orien

On the last day of term we had the sad task of farewelling Orien. The students each made a card for Orien and we had a shared morning tea to say goodbye.

To say goodbye to the class Orien gave us a book about Dinosaurs which he then read to the class. Orien we wish you all the best with your new school.

Winding up the term

Wow hard to believe we are almost at the end of the term.
Two weeks ago we had the Life Education Bus and the students learnt about feelings and managing emotions. We had some amazing discussions in class about feelings and being open to experiencing all emotions.
Below are some of the creations the students made following our unit.

Wow Writing:

This week was school photos. The staff dressed up as either librarians or caretakers to honour our caretaker and librarian who are both retiring. I wore my caretakers outfit back to class and the students had to write about what I was wearing and think about why I was dressed the way I was.  Here is some of the great writing produced.

Deklan: Mr Sawyer is wearing overalls and earmuffs and he was wearing them at morning tea. Then he came back from the office with them on and now I am going to tell you a simile about what Mr Sawyer is wearing. His overalls are orange like an orange and blue like the sky.

Lachlan: It all started when we walked int he class. Mr Sawyer was wearing overalls! He wore earmuffs too. I think he was wearing the earmuffs because he was digging some more dirt from the hole and because it makes scraping noises.

Liam Hall: Today Mr Sawyer came back to class wearing overalls. My teacher was a wee bit funny, The overalls had blue and orange. I like him because he has funny earmuffs on. The t-shirt is orange and the pants are blue. He might be wearing overalls because he might be building a motel.

Chris: Hello my name is Chris. After morning tea time Mr Sawyer dressed up as a worker. Those are called overalls. the colour of the overalls is orange like a tiger, the pants colour is blue like our classrooms jelly bean table's chair. I think Mr Sawyer looks dapper, Mr Sawyer has ear muffs on too. the colour of the ear muffs is orange like a sun flower petal. Mr Sawyer was dapper and fancy. The end.

Reading in room 14 and Milo

Reading:

As part of our daily reading programme students are encouraged to look at different aspects of reading including their reading voice. This means they need to be able to read fluently, use expression and read the punctuation. One of the most popular activities is performing plays to class mates. Here is one of the reading groups performing a play about a Dragon

Introducing Milo

Milo is our class puppet. He often makes an appearance at writing time, sharing his own writing. Sometimes the students will help Milo when he struggles with aspects of writing they too are working on. Milo also loves being read to 

Oral Language

Our class oral language programme is continuing. Here is Harry presenting a video of his time in the UK and Takoda presenting on Horses