In the library today Liam read the award finalist book "Duck stuck". Then we all made duck masks. Everyone was really busy helping us with our masks. Thank you Mrs Null, Natalie, Robbie and Liam. Lots of Room 2 Children went and this is what they looked like when they came back to class. Quack! Quack!

Hannah and Jackson were lucky to win the chance to go and meet the Author of "Piggity Wiggity Jiggity Jig". They got our class copy signed and it has a nice message especially for Room 2. Jackson got to dress up as Piggity Wiggity Jiggity Jig. Here are some photos of them at the library. Have a look at the link to the Library blog and see more photos and videos of the trip. Thanks to Mrs Alderlieste and Mrs Young for taking you to the library.

Today Mrs Paterson had a "Wondering". She wondered how she could make bread?
We wrote stories about how we thought we could make bread. Come and have a look at all our ideas in our classroom. Most of us thought that we needed flour and water so this afternoon we made some bread using just water and flour.
While it was baking we made a "Y" chart to show what we thought the finished bread would "Look like", "taste like" and "smell like."

We waited all day on Friday to see Harry's caterpillar turn into a chrysalis but it didn't happen. I found this time lapse video to show you what happened to the caterpillar over the weekend. Isn't it amazing.
Mrs Paterson

Today Harry and his mum brought a bug catcher to school to share with the class. We were amazed to see a butterfly that had just hatched out , 3 chrysalis and a caterpillar hanging, ready to change into one too. We watched and waited all all day but the caterpillar was still hanging. perhaps it is shy!!!
At the end of the day we carefully took the butterfly out and it climbed up Harry's top and onto his nose! We put it on the swan plant outside Room 4. We found another butterfly there too. We watched the butterfly flap it's wings. It was a girl butterfly. We hope it isn't too cold for butterflies. It is pretty cold for us.
Thanks for sharing with Room 2. Mrs Paterson will keep and eye on the nearly black chrysalis over the weekend just in case it hatches.

These are some of the breads we tried today. Have you tried them all? You can get them from the supermarket and because they are rolls it is an easy way to try lots of different types of bread.

We thought that the brown and grainy breads made us feel fuller that the white bread and we didn't have to eat so much to feel full!! We thought that was really interesting.

You can click on the pictures to make them bigger.

Today we tried lots of different types of bread. They were all different but we liked them all. We used lots of interesting words to describe what they tasted like.

Today we talked about what we already knew about bread and we made a chart to share it with others. Click on the diagram to enlarge it.

Yesterday Jackson shared a special book his mum made for him about his holidays. We are going to take turns at being videoed, sharing our news. We are trying to speak clearly and to make our news interesting. We also need to learn to be good listeners too!
I really enjoyed seeing your book Jackson and I am very proud of how well you read the story about Mr Paterson and I. I am glad you didn't put the crab in my bed!!!

Do you know this story character? We are going to find out more about her this term. Do you have any idea what we are going to be learning about in this term's Inquiry? We are going to have so much fun and discover lots of exciting things.

Welcome to Riley who starts school today.We know you will enjoy being in Room2

This message arrived after you had left school for your holidays. Click on the picture to make it bigger so you can read what Easter Bunny said.

Have a great Easter with your families and a safe and happy holidays. Keep up the great work with your reading and writing, you have all come so far this term. Have fun with the snakes and ladders games you have taken home.Hope you enjoyed your easter treats today.
Mrs Paterson

Tomorrow we are going to make some chocolate Easter biscuits. Mrs Paterson has some rabbit cutters and we are going to make Easter Bunny heads. We hope that if we leave them out for Easter Bunny, she might decorate them like the ones Easter Bunny left in the staff room for the teachers!!! Here's hoping. We are sure they will be delicious.

Today for news, we had to bring something that started with a letter we had been studying in Phonics Fun. We came up with lots of different things. We added in descriptive words to add to our totals. The slideshow is done using comiclife pictures. Didn't the children do well to come up with so many ideas.

BubbleShare: Share photos - Easy Photo Sharing

We played "Fly swat" with our alphabet mat. We had to hit the letter that made the sound Mrs Paterson made. We were very good at it and she couldn't trick us.
Mrs Paterson is very proud of us for working so hard on learning to read and write lots of words. Some of us have doubled the words we know in the last 2 weeks! WOW!!!!

T-Ball with our Big Buddies.

We have been learning about the "Days of the week "and now we are learning the "Months of the Year". Mrs Paterson found a website with a great game for us to use to give us lots of practice. We can practice it at home. It is in the maths links section of our Blog.

Levi's mum took these great videos at the stadium last week. The children really enjoyed the warm up song each day. I am sure most of the adults felt tired just watching. The videos of the children floating on their fronts and backs show just how far some of the children have come in just 4 days.
Come along to the swimming sports tomorrow night so your children can show you what they have learnt.

Just before swimming each day we do exercise to music and we finish with some quiet relaxing music. Today we were in the exercise studio and we did aerobics just like some of our mums do.

Today we played "Duck, duck, goose" with Fiona at Futsal. We had to balance on the balls until it was our turn to chase someone. Poor Fiona got chased by lots of people. She will be exhausted tonight.

We had to learn how to save ourselves if the boat we were in, tipped over.We had to dig in and doggy paddle to a safe place at the side of the pool.

See how beautifully Hannah can float on her back.
Well done Hannah

Every day we begin Fundamental skills with a warm up session with all of the instructors.This is a little bit of the song we dance to.

At water Safety we are learning how to keep ourselves afloat and how to to get in and out of the pool safely. We are also learning what to do if we fall in. We practice by walking on a big mattress then we jump in. Some of us don't even need a hand to get to the side after jumping.This is Group 2 . See how brave they are.

Today everyone was so confident with their swimming and water safety. Well done. I was so proud of you for "Keeping on trying". Now some of you can actually say, "I can do it."
I took some videos of Jamie, Harry and Ben D in Group 2 today.See how clever they are at lying back on their cushions.

Day 2 of Fundamental Skills

The first day of Fundamental Skills:
What was it like ? What did we do? How did we feel?

We went down the ladder and we had to climb back up to the side and then we slippery snaked back in. Emily Kate
I got a frisbee for doing good stuff. It was all so easy. Levi
I did basketball. It was cool.You had to bounce it and try and throw it in the basket. It didn't work. Harry
I can touch the bottom in the deep pool.We did slippery snakes into the pool. Then we did monkeys. Emily
We did dodgeball. I did good swimming and was a good leader. I won a frisbee . Hannah.
I liked playing follow the leader. Ben was the leader and then the big person was the leader next.We had to copy Ben. Michael
I liked dodgeball. You had to throw the ball at each other.The life saving was the best. Ruby
I had fun swimming. I put my head under. Jamie
I had fun slithering in the water and ducking my whole body under the water. Alice
I went into the big pool and it was over my mouth so I had to stand on a trampoline. I wasn't scared. Jonty
I got a frisbee because I did a good job. I also cheated and went in the water when it wasn't my turn. Ben
I was a good sport and I got an awesome blue frisbee and I held on to the wall because we went down the deep end. Jackson

Our Wonderful Self Portraits

Buddy time with Room 9

BUDDY TIME WITH ROOM 9
We had a great time at buddy time today. Our buddies got out the parachute and we had to pump all the air under it so it went up high. We bounced a ball in it and we played a game. When our number was called we had to run under the parachute and get back out before it came down. At the end we all sat under it and it was like being inside a big tent. Thank you Claudia and Courtney for organising it.

By the way the sausages at your sausage sizzle were delicious. Have a great camp next week.

We have been learning about the days of the week. We read a funny story about Miss Pool. She is a teacher and her car broke down. Each day she came to school in a very different, strange way. Ask the children about it. We had some cool cars with all the days on them and we had to put them all in the correct order.

It has been great watching the children get so interested in making words. Every morning a group of children , that is growing fast, have been busy making and writing words. It has been especially good to see the children involving their mums in what they are doing. Thanks for taking the extra time in the mornings to share your child's learning.
This morning we did a 10 minute wordblast ( until now we have only done 5). All the children set themselves a goal of a certain amount of words. EVERY child met or exceeded their goal WOW! GREAT WORK. Have a look at their wordblast books next time you are at school.
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK.

We are learning to make lots of words starting with our "Words of the Week". These are some of the ways we learn new words.

Making words

Healthy Food

We have been talking about what keeps us healthy. We came up with lots of things.
Fruit , vegetables, fresh air, enough sleep and exercise.
We will need to think about some of these to help us cope with Fundamental Skills next week.
Eating healthy food , getting enough sleep and fresh air will help us cope with all the exercise we will be doing.

Yesterday we talked about our favourite fruits and veges. Then we looked in the school gardens to see what was growing there.
Today we sorted felt pictures into fruits and vegetables. We weren't sure if an avacado is a fruit or a vegetable. The class couldn't decide so have gone home to see if they can find out. Watch this space...