Ruby-Rose and Lilith's Video on Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Lilith and Ruby-Rose spent time today writing a play. Here it is.

A Racow

This is a Racow. It is half rabbit and half cow. Lilith used the app ThingLink to add notes to her drawing.

Lilith, Amber, Ashley, Summer's Post on Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Today we made a flower garden with spirals in it. It also had leaves made of hands and it had lots of butterflies. The trees have hands for leaves. The snails were the biggest ever. Their names are Bobby, Groovy, Abby, Emily, Rainbow Rise and Shine and Daisy. By Amber, Ashley, Lilith and Summer

Pyjama Day

It was fun coming to school in our pyjamas today.  Look at all of the different colours and patterns.

To start off our Pyjama Day we did an activity called Find Someone Who Has...
It was was fun trying to find people who were wearing a onesie, stripes or spots, a dressing gown or buttons.  There were so many different types of pyjamas!

After morning-tea we had a yummy hot chocolate with marshmallows while we shared our stories with buddies.  Next we did a sorting activity.  We had to put our soft toys in order from biggest to smallest.
We could think of many other ways that we could sort the soft toys too.
Lightest to darkest, smoothest to roughest, widest to thinnest, most chewed to least chewed and we could also put them into different colour groups.  There were so many different ways that we could group our toys.




















Lastly, we wrote some stories describing our pyjamas.  Here are a few examples.

My pyjamas are purple and stripy and soft.  When it is Pyjama Day I wear the pink, stripy, soft pyjamas.  The rest of it you already know.  I love my pyjamas.
Amber

My pyjamas have beautiful love hearts on them.  They are snuggly and warm.  I love my pyjamas.  I love pyjamas. I love sleeping in them.
Emma

Today it was Pyjama Day.  I wore my onesie.  My onesie is very, very warm.  My onesie is black and tan.  My onesie is a one part.  I love my onesie.  My onesie has buttons in the very middle of my onesie.  I forgot my slippers because I was too tired.
Noah

My pyjamas are black and white, also, red and pink and grey.  My onesies are so fluffy and hairy.  My pyjamas had so much beautiful snowflakes.  They are the best Hello Kitty pyjamas.  They had love hearts and x's.  They feel so good but they make me hot.
Ruby-Rose

My onesie is part of the Minions.  My onesie is a little bit big.  It keeps my body warm.  It makes me yawn and sleepy.  My sleeves are quite a bit long on my arms.  It is very long on my legs.  The colour of my onesie is yellow and blue.  The blue is the suit.  The yellow is the body like the beautiful shining sun.  The blue is like the ice cold water.
Trae

My pyjamas have stripes on them and they are rainbow stripes.  The top of the pyjamas has an owl on it.  The owl has a love heart on its tummy.  My pyjamas are very soft and smooth.  They are peachy-pink with sparkles.
Tilly

I love my pyjamas because they're nice and snuggly.  They have patterns, Christmas patterns.  I love them.  Their colour is yellow.  They have red stripes.  They have long sleeves.  They have purple carrots.  They have salami, rainbow salami.  It has one hole.  They have spots.
Lilith

It was lovely spending the day reading a lot of stories too after such a busy day yesterday.

Planets and Shaving Cream

What do planets and shaving cream have in common? Art, apparently! Today we made planets for our wall, using shaving cream and dye powder. We've been looking at space, and the solar system and we wanted a planet display for our wall. Sensory and messy play is an important part of learning so we made the most of it this afternoon!

First we looked at the colours of the planets, got into groups, and then cut out our planets. We put shaving cream on the table, and mixed it around with our hands. Then we added dye powder in the colour of each planet, and mixed that in. We had to wash our hands next, before we put our planets face-down on the shaving cream and patted it, to make sure that there was colour on all the parts of the paper.

A visit from Tilly the puppy!

Today in Rm 12 we had a very special visitor.  Mr Robinson let his beautiful puppy, Tilly, visit our class. It was a big surprise for everyone!

Tilly loved all of the cuddles and pats from everyone.  We were careful to let her sniff our hands first and we were all very good at being calm and quiet so that she knew that we were friendly.

Room 12 wrote some lovely stories about the visit.  She was a great inspiration for our writing today.

An important part of writing is to know that there is a purpose to our writing.  Many students enjoyed sharing their writing with the class and read their stories in front of an audience.

We all hope that Tilly comes back soon.  Thank-you Mr Robinson for letting her visit Room 12 today.

Dioramas

This afternoon we had a fun technology/crafty session where we used a variety of materials to create a diorama or model. We had three choices based on our current events - a flood, a classroom, or space. The students chose to work individually, in pairs, or in threes. Look at what we've done!

We gathered supplies.

We measured and cut.

We used teamwork and compromising skills.

We had unique ideas.

We planned and shared ideas.

Movemprove 2015

Room 12 have been going to Movemprove lessons every Wednesday in our school hall during Term 1.  Students love going along to build up their confidence and work on their movement skills.  The added bonus is that it is a lot of fun too!

St Patrick's Day week part one.

On Monday Room 12 arrived at school and noticed that someone had been in our class and left a big mess.  There were green footprints on the yellow table and and all sorts of green things left all over our floor.  Everyone was very puzzled and suggested a lot of ideas about who may have been in our classroom.  Some of Room 12 thought maybe Harold the Giraffe had spent the weekend in our classroom!

Big Air Gym

Every second Monday this term we have been walking to Bigair Gym.  Room 12 has enjoyed learning how to use the different equipment and they have been practising their gymnastic skills.  They have been practising things like balancing and flexibility while also learning new skills and increasing their fitness.  The students are slowly being challenged which has been great for their confidence.

Insect week!

This week we have been learning about insects. We have had a few people show us insects they've seen, or videos about insects so we wanted to learn about what an insect is. We watched this video and learnt that insects have three body parts, six legs, and often have wings.

Tomorrow Room 12 will be watching this video about wasps.  Emma and her mum took this video when they were doing a tramp recently.  It would be wonderful if you could look at the video tonight and discuss it with your child.