Gold Award assembly

13/12/16

What a great assembly we had at St Chad's this morning.  It was wonderful to see so many parents and friends there.

Congratulations to Salote who received the Citizenship Award, Sophie and Rocko who both got Gold Awards and Elshadaye who received the Excellence Award.

Today we took a final photo of Room 5 for the year.  

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone.

School Fun Night and Concert

7/12/16
What a great night we had last night for the Family Fun Night and Concert.  The weather was warm and there were lots of people there having fun.  We spent time yesterday practicing our dance and then performed for the parents at night.

Here are a few photos from the fun night and concert.

We practiced during the day.

Mrs Narbey and Mrs Tizzard had a turn on the Crazy Bikes.

 

Mitchell and Dupree had fun on the bouncy slide.

Here we are during our performance.

Softball Coaching

4/12/16

It was a bit damp and misty on Friday morning but Room 5 went out to softball coaching with Nivvie.  This week the children were in two teams and had a game of softball, learning how to hit the ball and then run around the bases. There were some great hits and some children, including Dupree, nearly caught the ball using the glove.

Orana Park

27/11/16

What a fantastic trip we had to Orana Park last week.  The day was beautiful, although it did get a bit hot towards the end. Special thanks to Tracy, Lin, Laura and Jim who were our Parent \Helpers for the day.  We hope you enjoyed the day as much as we did. Thank you also to Elaine who was our Zoo Teacher.

The animals were hot and sleepy but it was fun feeding the giraffes and we were all excited to see the gorillas outside playing on their climbing frame.

Softball Coaching

20-11-16

Last Friday we were lucky to be able to join in the softball coaching which the Senior classes have been having this term.  Friday was our first day and everyone practiced catching and throwing the ball.  It was great fun and we're looking forward to the next session at the end of this coming week.

Paper Plate Owls

16-11-16

Our Art topic for this term is Construction and we have been exploring ways to make Artworks with paper and card.

For the past two weeks we have been constructing Owls from paper plates and card.
Here are just a few of our Owls;

Gold Award Assembly in November

16-11-16

Last Thursday we held our first Gold Award Assembly for the term.
Congratulations to Abigail who was the Gold Award winner for November.
Congratulations also to Susie who won the Healthy Eater Award prize for the Karawha Team and Sophie who won the Newsletter return prize for Room 5.

Animal habitats

2/11/16
Room 4 and 5 are learning about animals and animal habitats as part of our Inquiry topic this term.  We worked together in small groups to look at pictures of animals and classify them into various groups.

Making Lolly Cake

Our Strand maths unit was Measurement this term and we focussed on weight.  To finish the unit we joined with Room 4 and made Lolly Cake. Everyone had fun sharing the tasks and all got to enjoy eating the finished cake.  We made plenty and were able to eat some the next week as well.

Good start to the term

Here we are nearly half way through the term.  The children enjoyed their two weeks of swimming at Aquagym at the start of the term and they all made great progress.  Thanks to the parents who came along to watch their children swim.

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Descriptions of Goldilocks and Baby Bear

In Room 4 and 5 we have been learning how to write character descriptions. We have been using characters from different fairy tales, myths and legends.  Last week we wrote about Goldilocks and Baby Bear from Goldilocks and the Three Bears. To really understand the characters we were describing we made masks and pretended to be the character we were writing about.  Here are some examples of our work.

Goldilocks

Goldilocks is beautiful because she has a pretty dress and she looks like red riding hood. Her hair is blonde. She is sneaky because she went into their home and ate Baby Bears Porridge. I think goldilocks is naughty because she went into the house without knocking. I think she is greedy too because she ate Baby Bears porridge.

By Cane Green

All about Baby Bear

Baby Bear looks like a grizzly bear. He has fur and he always smiles. He has short ears. Baby Bear came back to his house and found out that his porridge was all gone. He went up stairs and found someone in his bed. I think Baby Bear was shocked because he wasn’t expecting to see someone in his bed.  I feel sorry for baby bear because Goldilocks broke his seat. I think he is nice because he is a good person. I like Baby Bear because he is cute and cuddly.

By Judah Hobson 

Goldilocks and the 3 Bears

This morning Room 4 and 5 watched Goldilocks and the 3 Bears in preparation for our character description on Monday. We created a "Y" chart to help us think about the character of Goldilocks- what she looks like, what she does and how we feel about her. You can watch the movie again and see if you could add anymore ideas to our "Y" chart.

After creating our "Y" chart we all had a taste of some delicious porridge that Miss Williamson had made for us and we brainstormed some words that described the porridge. We are ready to writing some amazing descriptions next week!

ASB Get Wise Programme

A big thank you to Amy from ASB for teaching Room 5 all about money! We did lots of learning about spending money wisely. The main message of the day was "speed to your needs and wait for
your wants".

             

Calender Art

Room 4 and 5's calendar art is currently displayed on our windows. Please feel free to come and have a look! Calendar orders are due by the 9th of September. If you would like to see your child's art before ordering and you are unable to come into school please let us know and we can email you a photo.

12 month Artwork Calendars - $12.00

Artwork Gift Cards (8pk) - $13.00 

Artwork Diary - $16.50

Kids Notepad - $14.00 

  

Discovery

Learning to work together, using our WITS and solving problems. These are some of the great skills that we practise during Discovery.

Writing and Science are Cool!

This morning we watched the classic fairy tale of Snow white and the Seven Dwarves. Next week we will be continuing with our character descriptions of either Snow White or a Dwarf of our choice. We thought of lots of great ideas to describe Snow White.

We then made our own "poisonous apples" using vinegar and baking soda. it was really exciting to see the chemical reaction and lots of us thought the vinegar smelt disgusting!!!

Watch our videos to see the chemical reaction for yourself!

Next week for our writing we will be focusing on the story "The 3 Billy Goats Gruff". Today we watched the video and came up with some "WOW" words to describe the troll.

We made bridges for the Billy Goats to cross......

............and 4 students even had a go at making a "Slowmation" movie.