It's not all fun and parties..

In between our birthday celebrations and cake gobbling, we have been doing some work. It's true!

In science we've been zappily :-) learning about circuits. We've learnt a lot and soon we are going to start working on our projects.

In literacy we've been reading, interviewing, researching, note-taking and planning our biographies. We've done a few practices and now we are working on a biography about a famous Victorian. We are doing this in groups and will eventually make a poster about our famous Victorians.  We practiced making posters about the main features of biographies and autobiographies and I thought this one, by Joon Il, was great (Excellent layout, information and presentation). I think I'll ask him to do all of my wall displays :-)

In Maths we have been working on data handling.  Students collected and presented data about our school and around our school. We have some of the  graphs and analyses are on display along the corridor near our class room. (I will take a photo). Now we are focusing on measurement, perimeter, area and converting metric and imperial units.

The students have also received their debate topics and are working hard on that! I'm looking forward to the next debates: Is mountain living better then city living? AND Is coal powered energy better then nuclear powered energy?

Well.. that's pretty much it for now! There are lots of exciting things coming up.. hopefully I'll have time to blog about it.

Aaaaanother Birthday!

Wow! It's a busy time for poor old teachers (meetings, grading and reporting + the normal stuff + the extra stuff). I tell you what teachers are never bored! Hence, I've been doing a lot of other teacher stuff and haven't had time to blog. I've finally written in my 'to do list' and now I'm doing it! Yay a blog update!

As the title suggests, we did have another birthday in our class. Just before swimming last Tuesday we filled ourselves up with Izabel's birthday muffins and chocolates. Izabel's mum came in to help too. Here's a pic of the little express party we had:

Blurry action shot