comments here for years 3-6
year 3-6 students, post your comments about todays work here as the other blog is closed for comments for some reason. Mrs W
category: Literacy
using storybird
Today we had our first attempts at using storybird. Please read each of the student’s stories. They would love to receive comments back about their work. The animals in my valley on Storybird Lucy Lou and her friends on Storybird This is a … on Storybird
Elementary Voicethreads
One of the posts on Mrs W and the 1/2/3′s blog several weeks ago was about voicethreads that primary schools from around the world were joining. We also joined and submitted our voicethread today. We are the only school from Australia to contribute to the wiki when we put our voicethread on. We are the [...]
category: students - 2010, Technology
Making number sentences
In maths, we often make up our own number sentences. This is an example of our work using small plastic teddy counters and tens trains. What number sentence can you make about the teddies and the train?
category: maths
Postcard from Georgia
Yesterday we got a postcard from Georgia. She is currently on holidays with her family on a cruise in the Whitsundays, Queensland. The postcard took 3 days to reach us, all the way from Cairns. Do you think Georgia has seen any Australian animals on her cruise?
category: Georgia
We made pencil toppers in art.
Today in art with Miss C, we made pencil toppers out of paper clay. The clay is white, so to get the colour you colour the clay with textas and mould the clay until the colour is distributed throughout. Then we created a character. Some of us made characters from the TV or books while [...]
category: art, students - 2010
tags: art
tesselations
Today we were learning about tesselations. We had our first attempt at making a voice thread. Click on Monty the cat to hear our comments. It was fun. What shapes can you find that tesselate?
category: maths
tags: maths
Happy Mothers’ Day
Dozen Roses Love Note Do you have a special present for your Mum? How does your family show Mum you love her? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ The lovely ladies from our school Parent’s Club held a Mothers’ Day stall for the students this afternoon. The choice of present for Mum was quite challenging for some of the students. [...]
category: General
tags: celebrations, mothers' day
Our visit to the Fauna Park
Yesterday we went to the Kyabram Fauna Park with the children and their mums from our playgroup. Each of the students had one of the school cameras to take photos of the Australian animals. Some of thehighlights were: patting a kangaroo finding the bearded dragon lizards hiding in the sticks being able to identify the [...]
category: extracurricular activities, Integrated Studies
Crunchie, Kasey’s python
Last night Kasey’s pet diamond python shed his skin, so Kasey brought it to school today. Her diamond python’s name is Crunchie. He is a yearling, that means he is not fully grown yet. Kasey said that Crunchie eats rats. We measured Crunchie’s skin. It was 1 metre and 45 centimetres long. We looked [...]
category: Kasey
tags: Australian Animals, Kasey
Comment from Mrs W and 1,2,3 in British Columbia, Canada.
Last week we posted a comment to Mrs W and the 1,2,3′s from British Columbia, Canada. They replied to us! This is what they wrote. Dear Mrs. W and the p-3′s, Thank you so much for writing to us on our blog! We think that it is funny that our teachers are both Mrs. W [...]
category: blogs @ other schools
tags: Mrs W & 123
Our Fauna Park animal awards
On Wednesday we are going to the Fauna Park with the playgroup children. In preparation for the visit, today we looked at a map of the park. We discussed the symbols used on the map and worked out where each of the animals can be found. Then we made up our own animal awards using [...]
category: extracurricular activities
Fauna Park at a later date
Unfortunately due to the wet weather we had to postpone our visit to the fauna park. We are going to try again in 2 weeks – Wednesday 5th May. Hopefully the weather will be fine.
category: extracurricular activities, General
What can take exactly 1 minute to do?
For welfare studies this afternoon, we worked with a partner of our own choice. Our task was to find things that took exactly one minute to perform. These are some of the things that we found: running around the new playground 10 times to put on 4 pieces of the dress up clothing 3 laps [...]
category: maths, students - 2010
Learning how to use the cameras
Tomorrow we are going to the Fauna Park and we are going to use the school cameras to take photos of the Australian animals. Today we learnt how to use the cameras. We now know how to turn them on and off; how to zoom and how to focus the cameras. We tried out the [...]
tags: Technology
maths: location
Today in maths we started a new topic – location. First we talked about which hand we use to write with and Mrs. W. drew around her hands on the whiteboard and put left and right on them. Next we went to our tables and drew on them where Mrs. W. asked us to. We [...]
category: maths, students - 2010
tags: maths
Kasey’s special news
Today Kasey brought in a snake skin. The snake skin came from her pet python. The skin is a brown colour. The scales have left a spotted pattern on the skin. The python lives in a special tank in Kasey’s lounge room. We have put the skin in our special Australian animal display.
category: Kasey
tags: Kasey
site under construction
Anyone who looks at our site on a regular basis will wonder what has been happening. The appearance keeps changing. I’ve been trying to find a theme that will work for us. Just a I find a theme, something doesn’t quite do what we want it to do. I added a counter for Tessa over [...]
category: Uncategorized
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