New Student Council!

I'm happpy and a little bit sad that we have to re-elect a new Studen Council. The Term 1 Student council did a fantastic job!

THREE CHEERS!!! HIP HIP HOORAY; HIP HIP HOORAY; HIP HIP HORRAY!

However, I'm very sure the next Student Council will be just as great!

Here's a little video advertisement I made to encourage the primary students to run for election.

Hello 2013

The New Year has bought us new term and a new student, Sam. Welcome! Not only was it his first week, but it was also his birthday, so good old Sam had a big first week.

We also started our Revision lessons for Maths and Science. We made a little 3D Object museum with labels that use big words like perpendicular and parallel. Yeah!

Goodbye 2012

Whoopsies! The last part of last term was busy, so no time to blog. Here's a long overdue update of December:

Building the Winter Market:

Making fabric birds and wool jars to sell at the market:

Selling stuff at the market:

Science- Circuit Projects

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

November the Birthday Month!

We've had a few birthdays already since we've been back: Swetha, Misaki and Rashad's (this weekend).
Swetha bought in a huge cake and we sent her out the room, lit the candle, turned the lights out, and let her back in to the chorus of our enthusiastic voices belting out 'Happy Birthday'.
Misaki bought in lovely little bags for everyone filled with cupcakes and cookies. They were very yummy!

Autumn Party!

This is a bit late! Here are some of the pictures of our Autumn party. This was a fun event organised by the Student Council for the last day of the half term. The students could wear costumes, bring food and enter competitions for 50 cents.