Easter

Happy Easter everyone...
On Wednesday the Juniors made Hot cross buns.  They looked delicious.  Everyone made one and got to eat it afterwards.
Here are a few pictures. 
Thanks to Mrs Davies and a few kind parent helpers the morning went smoothly.

Art

Alley Cats

After reading the big book A Party for the Alley Cats, we produced this wonderful art work and wrote fabulous stories to go with them.  Come a see our work hanging in the class.  First we sketched out the cats heads and then used water colours to fill in the outlines.  Once dried, we went over our lines in vivid and finished the background in smudged charcoal.  What fabulous artists you are!

Crazy Day

Shared reading

The Big Book

Each week we read a big book together and every Friday we do an activity based on the big book.  Last week we read Mrs O'Malley in Alligator Alley.  We worked collaboratively to draw Mrs O'Malley walking through the Alligator Alley and made signs to warn her about the dangerous alligators.  Afterwards we each made our individual snapping alligators.  Well done room 1, great team work!

Science

What is eating our plants?

This week we ventured out into our vegetable garden to find that something had been eating our plants.  We decided we needed to do some investigating! We went out with magnifying glasses and the ipads to see what we could find.  We discovered little green bugs ( we think they are caterpillars) all over the leaves.  We took a few back to class for a closer look.  We  looked through a special microscope that projected onto the t.v so we could find out what they looked like up close.  Here is what we saw...

I see...

stripes

green and yellow

pointy things ( I think they are legs)

spiky stuff ( I think that's hair)

dots- black and white

green slimy stuff 

ripples on it's back

wrinkles

it wriggling

a stripe on it's back

Learning about Respect

Respect

This week we have been looking at the importance of respecting people, our classroom and the things within it.

We worked as a whole class to establish how we should respect our own and other peoples things, the classroom and our friends.  We worked in groups to produce a pic collage which will be displayed on our walls. Here are a few of them.

Science

Learning to Observe

Yesterday we went out into our garden area and had a good look at things we could see.  We took photos and used our magnifying glasses to take a closer look at stuff.  We found all sorts of things among our vegetables! When we got back to class we talked about the things we saw.  This term we will be going out around school and off site to do some more digging, investigating and observations. Here are some pictures.