Tuesday 28 February 2017

It's the last day of Feruary and our First Calendar Challenge!

CONGRATULATIONS CALENDAR CHALLENGE ENTRANTS!


You all correctly researched that our animal in February is in fact an AFRICAN PENGUIN, which lives on the south-western coast of AFRICA!

Your presentations were awesome and I especially loved your vocal energy and eyes on the audience

You gave us some really interesting facts. Some of the facts really surprised us!



Friday 24 February 2017

T is for Teddy Bear's Picnic and Teddy Toast!

We LOVED Our Teddy Bear's Picnic!
We introduced our teddies, turtles, trucks, tigers and T-Rexs'...

We read our poems with our teddies and we danced to the 'Teddy Bears Picnic'...

THEN we made Teddy Toast!
 
                                                                                               Teddy Bear impersonations!!!!

...now we're tired little teddy bears 😴

Monday 20 February 2017

Sound of the Week! 't'

Term 1, Week 3's Memory Verse

THE GOLDEN RULE
In everything, do to others what you would want them to do to you.
Matthew 7:12

Here is a video we loved to do with this verse.

It made us come up with 3 equations
mean + mean = MEAN
mean + kind = kind (our kindness can turn a mean situation or person into a kinder one)
kind +kind = KIND! (this is the best and most smiley option every time!)

Friday 17 February 2017

Sound of the Week 'l'

Jolly Phonics Sounds


Centre of the Universe? We don't think so!

This week's Memory Verse:

I want you to treat others fairly. Always do what is right.
Amos 5v24

We have watched and read a few stories this week where the main character thought they were the 'centre of the universe', the most important while others were worth less. Well, at least that is how they treat them. They were "me, me, me!"
  1. The giant thought others should do whatever he wanted, when he wanted. He was bossy and angry. 
  2. EJ thought he was more important than others. He was mean and rude.
  3. Beaver was really good at talking but didn't listen to others.
Respect means we treat everyone as important, that includes being fair to everyone. Integrity means being honest and doing what is right (even if no one is looking).

We practised fairness and respect in the playground, even if no one was looking.

We shared the playground equipment

We gave everyone an opportunity to join in our game of tag. If someone asked if they could play we said yes! We played by the rules.
We took turns.

We used our manners and said, "you first". Nicholas looks pretty happy you said that Natalia!!!

A word that came up every time we talked about respect, manners or fairness was LISTENING. 
Listening is polite. Listening to others tells them they are important. Listening is fair. It lets others have a turn at talking.

We made two lists (if you can read the fast writing). The left hand side is what listening looks like and sounds like. The right side is what listening does not look like or sound like. 
We decided that the best listeners are Whole Body Listeners.
Spot the awesome whole body listeners during High 5 Reading time. They look like and sound like listeners.
We are WHOLE BODY LISTENERS!

Friday 10 February 2017

Superheros Rewarded!

"What's going to work? Teamwork!" 

When we get 100 Superhero Value Points or over as a class we reward ourselves for loving and learning and making learning work. Together we earned 155 points. That's at least 155 times we showed RESPECT, DILIGENCE, INTEGRITY, KINDNESS or HUMILITY this week.

This week our superpower focus has been "The Flash" and there are some very fast superheroes emerging!


Our reward was time in the sandpit on Friday afternoon... but we didn't stop showing our values!

Toby gave his spade away to Josh as there weren't enough spades to go around. Nice sharing and so kind :)
Then Josh was quick to share himself with Josh!
Josh, James and Josh worked together and used diligence to dig all the way down to the bottom. They also found treasure! They said teamwork sure does work.
I caught Aiden helping Nicholas get the sand off his feet after we got out. You have such a servant heart Aiden.

Here are a few more pics...