Welcome to MR Class of 2014!!

It has been a busy but great start of term in MR class! We started off the week by getting to know each other and learning the ways of MR class. On Day 1 we went on a treasure hunt! We looked around the whole school to try and find a hidden treasure box. We found it on our playground in the tunnel! Every time we fill up our sticker chart we get some treasure from the treasure chest!

On Day 2 we made our class rules. First we read the rainbow fish story. We all loved listening to this on the computer! Then we came up with six of our own rainbow fish rules so that we can all have a happy, safe and fun year! We did some drama and acted out the rules so we could understand what they all meant. It was super fun working in groups and getting to know each other.

We have been learning lots of literacy and maths games around the classroom. We will be playing these games sometimes when Miss Rowe is busy with another group.

Our shared book this week was called “The sunflower tree.” We read this story, made sense of it and then wrote about it! We also did some fantastic artwork to go with the story. We were focusing on the “fl” sound this week and talked about lots of words that start with “fl.” We also did some "I Spy" writing this week. We made lots of clues and people have to try and guess what it is! Come in on Monday morning and have a guess! 

We have also been very busy creating self-portraits. First we did a draft in our topic books and then we had a real go! We had to follow step by step instructions and we all did a fabulous job of listening. First we used pencil and then we outlined in sharpie. We got to use cool people colour crayons for our skin colour and then we choose normal crayons for the rest of the features on our faces. Check them out!

We learnt how to use the iPads this week. We worked well in buddies and took turns at using the iPads. We played a game called ‘hungry fish’ where we had to make 10 in lots of different ways. We found out that you can make 10 by 5 + 5, 6 + 4, 7 + 3, 5 + 4 + 1. Some of us even noticed that 6 + 4 could even be 4 + 6 and they both equal 10! We also had fun making pizzas on the iPads. We used our imagination to make lots of yummy pizzas!

Valentines Day was fun in MR class. We read a lovely poem and then made something special for somebody we care about. Check them out:

Rhino Rowe gets to go home with Holly this weekend. Have a great weekend Rhino! 

The last few weeks in MR

Language Experiences

Wow School has been soooo super busy! We have been doing lots of awesome activities in the past few weeks. We made some gliders with AS class. We listened to instructions and then made our own glider. After we made them we got to fly them outside on the courts. Some went really far! After that we had to write instructions on how to make a glider. We were really specific so that anybody could make it all by themselves! Check out some of our pictures:

On Monday we had two special visitors. They were both turtles! They were crawling all over the classroom while we were watching them. After we saw them we read some facts about turtles and then wrote down five important facts that we had remembered. We labelled a turtle and all of its body parts!

Technology

This term we have been focusing on Technology. We have been working on making little gifts for our friends and families. We made a gift, a name tag, wrapping and a card! We are very proud of what we have made and can’t wait to give them to our special people!

Christmas

We are doing ‘Secret Santa’ this year. We put up our Christmas tree and lots of presents are under the tree now! We can’t wait to open them all up on the last day of school!

Fire Truck

This week we had a fire engine come to school. We got to walk through the fire truck, turn on the hose and listen to the sirens! They were pretty loud! The firemen were pretending to squirt us with water and we were all running away!

Water Fight

We had a water fight with AS class to celebrate the end of term. We even got to squirt Miss Rowe and Mrs Saunders! We all had a water gun or a drink bottle each and we could refill over at the buckets. We also got to run and slide on the tarp with dish washing liquid. This was super fun!

End of Year..

The next few days in MR are busy as per usual! We have a few farewells to go to and lots of Christmas activities to do! We have found out who our new teachers are for next year and we are all pretty excited (but Miss Rowe is going to miss us heaps!!!)

Thanks for such a FANTASTIC year and keeping up to date with our blog! See you all in the new year!

What's been going on in MR class this week?

Flowers

This week we have been doing lots of awesome art work! We made some bright, colourful flowers. We had to pick some colours that went well together. Some of us just used one colour per petal and some of us used two per petal. This is what they turned out like:

Cartoons!

On Tuesday we went to an awesome art workshop. We learnt how to draw cartoon characters! We drew a cat, dog, pencil, sheep, monkey and lots more! One of our favourite drawings was the penguin so on Wednesday we got to draw a MASSIVE penguin! We read a book about different penguin facts and found out lots of cool information. Here are some of our drawings:

Kite Flying

Today MR class went and flew kites on the Discovery School field! We had such a great time running up and down the field. We had lots of different coloured kites. We came back to the classroom and talked about different verbs. We came up with lots like swirling, twirling, glistening, twinkling, speeding! We then wrote some stories and poems about kites. Miss Rowe was very pleased with the stories and poems that we made. 

P.E

We have been focusing on small ball skills for P.E. We have been learning how to hit a tennis ball with a tennis racket and learning some other new ball skills with our tennis coach. We have also been practicing our throwing and catching skills. We have some great skills in our class!!

Mathematics:

For maths we have been focusing on money and fractions. We are learning to recognise the value of each coin and we are starting to add money together. We are all pretty clever! We are also learning to recognise types of fractions. So far we have looked at 1/2, 1/3, 1/6, 1/5 and 1/4. These are a bit tricky but with lots of practice we can do it! 

See you next week :-)