Compost - topic

WALT: recognise and understand the process used to construct a compost

We can do this when:

• we participate in discussions about compost
• explain how compost is constructed
• explain why we use compost and its benefits

We were very lucky that Mr McCaven showed us the grass clippings that will eventually turn into compost. We learned that the grass clippings will get warm and decompose and then they will help the school gardens grow.

Music

WALT - sing the new school song.

Success criteria: Sing using the correct words and attempt to use the correct pitch.

Room 2 sang this beautifully, they used the correct volume and some of them hit some good notes whilst singing.  Keep on practicing room 2 and we could even get some of the moves into the song.-- 

Shapes

WALT:  create different shapes from a model with play dough.

Success criteria:

• We can do this when our shape looks like or similar to the model we follow
• We can do this when we can talk about what shape we created
• We can do this when we can describe what our shape looks like

Writing - Character descriptions

WALT: write a character description

Success criteria:

• use interesting words to make a picture in the reader's mind.
• write about what the person looks like
• write about what the person does (actions)
• Write about what kind of person they are (personality)

Planting Potatoes

WALT:  plant and take care of potatoes.

We can do this when:

• Get a suitable bucket to plant our potato in
• Plant the potato seed in the right amount of soil
• Water our potato on a regular basis
• Take our bucket out of class everyday to sit in the sun

Stage 1:  Here we are decorating our buckets!! (BobbY, Max, James and Luca)

Translation

WALT: EXPLORE translations through slide, reflect, and rotate on plane shapes.

Success criteria:
 - Use the first letter of your name to slide 
 - Use the first letter of your name to reflect
 - Use the first letter of your name to rotate

Tessellation

WALT: predict and create a bathroom or kitchen tilling plan using tessellation.

Success criteria:

- create simple tessellations involving squares and other shapes

- repeat simple tessellations involving squares and other shapes

Mathletics award - Showing CARE values

Well done James on your Mathletics certificate. It shows that you are using EXCELLENCE by practising the tasks set to you in the school holidays.

Congratulations!!

Jump rope for heart

Achievement Objectives

Students will:

• Participate in creative and regular physical activities and identify enjoyable experiences.
• Develop a wide range of movement skill using a variety of equipment and play environments

Learning Outcomes

Students will learn to:

• Join in activities with a positive attitude
• Identify what makes fitness a positive experience
• Identify ways to make changes to the activity to increase enjoyment
• Demonstrate basic skipping skills with short and long ropes

Play - reading

WALT: practice and perform a fairytale play within a group

Success criteria:

• Students can using a clear voice
• Students can face the audience
• Students can read a script to the best of their ability
• Students can add emotion and acting to their plays.

Recorder

WALT: play on the recorder by reading a music sheet.

Success criteria: 

Share Music Making with others, using basic performance skills and techniques (L.2)

Gymnastics

Achievement Objectives

Students will:

• Participate in creative and regular physical activities and identify enjoyable experiences.
• Experience creative, regular, and enjoyable physical activities and describe the benefits to well-being.
• Describe and use safe practices in a range of contexts and identify people who can help.
• Develop a wide range of movement skills and play environments.

Learning Outcomes

We are learning to:

• Create and perform sequences of unlike actions on the floor.
• Identify how to use equipment and perform skills safely.
• Identify how gymnastics is helpful to everyone.

Bronze CARE certificate

Great work James on receiving you bronze CARE certificate. It took hard work and you achieved it! Very proud of you.

News Time!!!!

WALT: share our news with the rest of the class and listen to our peers news.

Success criteria:

·      Looking at the audience when we talk,

·      We are standing with confidence (nice and straight),

·      We are talking in a clear voice,

·      We are adding detail about  item we are sharing,

·      We are asking open questions to the person sharing their news,

·      We can answer questions with some detail,

     We are showing respect to the speaker and listening to their news.

Library session

WALT: read a book for enjoyment.

What that looks like:  

           We are sitting quietly in a spot reading a book.

3d Foil Cylinder

WALT: make 3D foil shapes.

Success criteria:

• Make a 3D shape out of paper and wrap in foil.
• We can tell someone what kind of shape it is.
• We can also tell someone how many conners, faces and sides it has. 

Mathletics week 9

Congratulations James on you bronze certificates for completing mathletics tasks.

You have shown active thinking by working hard on your mathletics tasks.

Great work!

Recount writing

WALT: write a recount

Success criteria:

1. The first paragraph says where, when, who, why and how.
2. The events are in order.
3. I will use time words (first, then, finally, etc.).
4. My recount is written in the past tense.
5. Details are added to make my writing interesting. Adding adjectives (no went!)
6. I finish my writing by saying how I felt

A good start James. You have some detail and some time words in your writing. Next step - add more detail to your writing.

James recount.pdf

Art portrait

WALT: Create self-portrait and painting them with water paint.

We can do this when: we use a pencil to draw ourselves with all the elements of a face and painting our portrait using relevant colours by staying within the lines.

Next step:  Use our drawing and painting skills to design and decorate our art mural.

James made a very well constructed self-portrait using different colours and painting techniques. Great work.

Writing

WALT: write some information about ourselves through planning and ICT.

We can do this when:  we write a detailed informative piece of writing and typing it up on a computer.

Next step:  To add more detail to my writing to make it more interesting e.g. descriptive words.

Writing 2015

We learned about ANZAC Day and wrote about some photos from the war. 

I am learning to: Write to describe.
I can do this when I can:
- Write sentences that talk about what is happening in the photo.
- Write sentences that make sense.
- Use verbs (doing words) in the right place.
- Use punctuation correctly.
- Write in detail.

I have used punctuation correctly in my writing. My next step is to use a dictionary.

Writing 2015

I am learning to: Write and Publish a poem.

I can do this when I can :

Describe myself using a range of different words including adjectives.
Read my poem with a clear voice at the right speed and noise level.

Next Step : Write a  Bio poem about one of your family members or a pet.

Maths

Today in maths we finished our fraction ice creams.

We are learning to:

- Identify symbols for fractions.

- Say the names of fractions correctly.

- Find fractions of groups.

- Show the CARE value Excellence in our work presentation. 

Our next steps are to:

- Apply this knowledge to find fractions of larger groups of objects.

- Improve our work presentation. 

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CARE Values

We are learning to show the CARE value Excellence. One way we did this in Term 1 was to have a quick tidy up of the school grounds. We picked up heaps of rubbish, returned sports equipment and delivered things to lost property.

Our next step is do this by ourselves when we walk past some rubbish or sports equipment that is in the wrong place.

Reading

We are learning to use our knowledge of word families and blends to work out unknown words and spell words.

One game we play to help us with our reading and writing is 'Pass The Bomb'. We have cards with parts of words, word families (e.g ing) or blends (eg. bl). When the Bomb comes to you you have to say a word that has the letters on the card in it. If the Bomb goes off you have to keep the card. At the end of the game the people who don't have a card are the winner.

E.g. One card had 'bl' on it so we said words like black, blank, blast...

Our next step is to include some of the more challenging cards in the game.

Maths

We are learning to: recall addition and subtraction facts in 3 seconds or under.

We play a game with dice. Two people roll a dice at the same time. They then have to add or subtract the numbers on the two dice. The winner gets to challenge another person in the circle.

We have noticed that we are getting faster at recalling our basic facts.

Our next step is to have a practice at home with dice or on mathletics.

Art Attack

Today we took part in an art workshop with Neil Shaskey. 

We were learning to: sketch a portrait. 

We showed we could do this when we could:

- Draw facial features the correct shape and size.

- Position facial features correctly.

- Use shading techniques.

We really enjoyed the workshop and were proud of the art work we produced. We thought the shading was hard but we didn't give up.