Our wonderful self portraits.

We have finally finished our scarecrow. Thanks Hayden for letting us have your scarecrow dress up. I hope the birds stay away from our newly planted vegetables.

We have had such a busy few weeks. Last week Room 1 harvested some more vegetables from the garden. We got to cook our own roasties. Mrs Hepburn had cut the veges up and we put them all in a roasting pan. We even cooked some of the radishes that we grew. When they were all cooked we eat them all. They were delicious.

Watch this great movie as many times as you can. The more times we watch it, the more votes we can get for our school. Imagine what we could do with $10,000!!! Well done guys, you look and sound fantastic. You should win just for that.

This is a great website to go to to make healthy lunch choices. The children had fun seeing how healthy they could make their lunchbox. How well can you do?

http://www.goforyourlife.vic.gov.au/hav/articles.nsf/html/index.html
http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/flash/a_healthy_lunchbox_intro.swf

"Ten Apples Up On Top" an Animated Reading!

Yesterday we were very lucky to learn some hockey skills. We were very good at dribbling.

Paige jumping in to the pool with Mike.

Group 2 learning arm action with Nicky.

Go Jonty.

Paige jumping in with a life jacket and flipping to her back.

Fundamental Skills Fun on PhotoPeach

Cate jumping in all on her own.

Sophie and Sidney showing how to jump into the water wearing a life jacket.

Group 2 with Mrs Robinson and Ricky at Futsal

How to make Pocket Plots on PhotoPeach

Last week we had time learning football skills with Paul. We learnt lots of ways to move the football. We used the inside and outside of our feet. We used our toes, knees, foreheads,top of our foot to control the ball. We know we need space around us to stop other people taking our ball away. It was lots of fun.

Jump Jam

On Friday at House meetings, the theme was "Being Active". All of the Juniors took part in a "Jump Jam" session. The teachers assessed their house groups against the key competency " Participation".
I was really proud of all the children for giving it a go, especially as many had never done it before.
Well done.

Skate Day for Ronald McDonald House.
On Friday we had a mufti and skate day to raise money for Ronald McDonald House. Parents of sick children can stay there to be close to their children. We raised just over $300. Well done Riverlands Kids.

Harvesting, replanting and eating! on PhotoPeach

The Amazing El Gregoe : What we liked best?

I liked the mask when he did the funny talk and he danced to Michael Jackson and also the dog that sang. Jonty
I liked the parrots that disappeared and 1 came back. Sophie
I liked the whole show because it was very cool. Sidney
I liked the dog when he used his WITS and ignored El Gregoe. Tegan
I liked the part when the dog said, "Get out of here" and when he ignored him. Seb

Basketball Skills with Tall Black-Mike Fitchett on PhotoPeach

Learning to use the laptops on PhotoPeach

Yesterday we mixed up all the pictures that start with "s", "a", and "t". Then we had to put them under the letter that made the correct sound. We were all very quick and accurate. Mrs Paterson was very pleased with how clever we were.

We made long snakes out of playdough and then made them into our names. Didn't we do well.

We had very busy second day of the term. We are learning to use "pages" on the laptops. We opened a page and wrote our names lots of times. We can change the font, the size and the colour.Come and have a look at what we did.

Then we had our very first reading book called "The birthday cake". We painted different coloured cakes and put them together to make a big cake. Then we added captions. They looked good enough to eat.

Eating from our Edible gardens on PhotoPeach

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Enjoy your family time and I look forward to seeing you all next year when you pop in to Room 2 to say hello.

Well it is hard to believe there is only one day to go until school finishes for the year. We have been very busy making Christmas gifts for our parents, hope you like them. Today we finished our special advent calendars for our Mums. I told the children they could have 2 days off and then on December 18 you can start opening your own calendar and enjoy having your children help you out leading up to Christmas. ENJOY!

Teddy Bears Picnic on PhotoPeach

Room 2's Assembly on PhotoPeach

The Grand Finale after a fun Book Week. Don't they all look fantastic.

When we arrived back from the Life Education Classroom we were surprised to find a special message on the board from Harold. We will have to send him some of our Ted stories or maybe we could write a special story about Harold.

Mums, Grans and lunchtime-yeah on PhotoPeach

Have a go Athletics on PhotoPeach

Room 2's high jump stars on PhotoPeach

Riverlands School Art Show on PhotoPeach

Magical Fish on PhotoPeach

Summer Soccer Stars on PhotoPeach

Last week we were lucky enough to go tree planting with Room 8 at Simmonsen Reserve. We helped to plant 200 trees and then we weeded around trees that children who use to be in Room 2, planted 2 years ago. We could hardly see them until we pulled away the long grass and weeds. Then we put mulch around the bottom of all the trees to help the roots keep moist and stop them drying out.
It is going to be exciting to watch our trees grow as we grow in our time at Riverlands School.
I wonder how big they will be when we are in Year 8. We will have to wait and see.