Olympic Mascots

Today we explored a new ICT tool called Explain Me. Mrs McRandle took a photo of our olympic mascot then we wrote its name and explained all about it.

We are learning to speak confidently and clearly and this gave us the opportunity to practise these skills. 

Skip Counting

We are learning how to skip count in 2's. Today we used a variety of materials to practise our skip counting and patterning skills. All the children were skip counting and checking that their pattern was sequenced in groups of two.

Spinners

How to make a Spinner

One of our reading groups has been learning all about seeds. They have learned that seeds can travel by the wind and that the sycamore seed spins towards the ground.

One of our reading activities was to make a spinner that spins like a sycamore seed.

 We enjoyed this activity and decided to share it with the whole class.

 These are the instructions if you are keen to make another one at home.

Fractions

We have been learning all about fractions over the last couple of weeks. We know that a fraction is when you break something into equal parts. 


We have been learning to find halves and quarters of different shapes and sets of objects.


We learned a fraction poem to help us remember and would like to share it with you.

Welcome Back to Term 3

We meet Harold and Kathleen from Life Education this week and they have been helping us learn all about "Food For Energy".

Harold invited us to join him at his friend, Jacko's birthday party via video link. They had some problems and asked us to use our knowledge of the food pyramid to help explain what a balanced diet is and why we need it. We even got to talk on the cellphone with Jacko and help him make his healthy food shopping list.

Here are some photos of our time with Harold and Kathleen in the Life Education truck.

We had a great time with Harold and are looking forward to learning more about healthy eating over the next few weeks.

Here are some of the things we are wondering about:

We have had the most wonderful week creating masks for the cultural festival. We have learned about different types of masks this term and why people wear them. We have created some masquerade masks and discovered that people wore them to festivals so the rich and poor could mingle.


Here are our creations:

God's Gifts

Today we were exploring gifts from God. We know our family and friends are gifts from God and also thought that all of God's wonderful creations were gifts too. We learned that we need to be thankful for our gifts and we can do this by: looking after them, caring for our environment, showing respect and love, using kind words and actions and saying thank you.

We went outside in groups and used the ipads to photograph God's creations and these are our pictures.