Learning to Blog

WALT add a post to our blog.

This is one way I will be sharing my learning this year.

My next step with blogging is adding photos to my blog.

Test post

I am learning to add a post to my blog

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.