Lucy's special fotobabble

More WILD Springston Explorers!

Write a comment telling us some of the animals you recognise in their crazy pictures!

Check out our WILD selves!

We are at the Stepping out stage of our inquiry. While Mrs Watson was working with the giraffe group, the Rhino group looked up facts about the White Rhino and had fun making their Wild Selves!

Click on the photo to make it bigger. 

Write a comment telling us some of the animals you recognise in their crazy pictures!

Sammy's first fotobabble!

Challenge: What fraction did Sammy split his play dough circle into? 

Lucy's Fractions fotobabble

Challenge: Are Lucy's halves equal or unequal? 

Poet-Tree

Stop into Room 1 and 2 and have a look at our fantastic Poet-Trees. We are so excited about them!

Wow! 40 views on our Home Learning Page!

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Well done Springston Explorers for rising to the challenge! I set the challenge of at least 18 views and you have well and truly passed that mark! I hope you enjoyed your home learning!

Kaylee's special fotobabble

Kaylee's reading group have been thinking about special people or animals in our lives because we are reading a book about a boy who is feeling sad because his dog died. He finds that it helps him to feel better by talking about his dog and remembering happy or funny times.

Challenge: What was Kaylee's horse's name?
         What colour was her horse? 

Jessica's special memories

Jess is remembering someone special to her that has died. We have been thinking about special people or animals in our lives because we are reading a book about a boy who is feeling sad because his dog died. He finds that it helps him to feel better by talking about his dog and remembering happy or funny times.

Challenge: Who is Jessica talking about?
 How old was she? 

Maggie's fotobabble

Maggie's reading group have been thinking about special people or animals in our lives because we are reading a book about a boy who is feeling sad because his dog died. He finds that it helps him to feel better by talking about his dog and remembering happy or funny times. Maggie has drawn a picture of her dog and made a fotobabble telling us about her. 

Challenge: What was Maggie's dog's name? 

What would her dog do in it's kennel sometimes?

Aria's Whio fotobabble

Aria brought this photo of Whio in a river. Click on the picture to hear her talking about it. 

Challenge: Where do Whio like to live? 

        Who took this photo?

How many people do you think have used our Home Learning Page this week?

I was looking at the blog statistics page and was impressed to see that 9 children have used the Home Learning page this week. I wonder if we can double that by the end of the week?

The Home Learning Page has lots of great games and links to websites that you can use to practice your literacy and numeracy.

Click here to check it out!

Charlie's Haast Eagle Presentation

Here is a photo of Charlie talking us through his amazing powerpoint show. We are very impressed with how accountable and adventurous Charlie is being with his inquiry learning!

Click on the picture below to look at his presentation. 

5 times tables with Percy Parker!

We found this great video for practicing our 5 times tables. Watch the video here.

Can you guess what animal group these children learned about?

Sadly we were unable to go to Orana Park on Thursday so we had an action packed day at school. Each teacher taught the children about an animal group.
Look at the pictures children drew on the iPads. Can you guess which group they learned about?

Birds? Reptiles? Mammals? Amphibians? Fish? 

 

Our Lovely Autumn Writing

My favourite learning we have done so far is our writing - we have delved into the world of poetry and what a fun time! First we started with exploring language, which gave the children opportunities to engage their senses through different items such as bubblewrap and playdough. 

Here are some groups writing their ideas down...

I love the way that they are all engaged in using their senses and in the activity. It was an amazing way to get some rich language and similes from them and they didn't even know they were coming up with such amazing ideas!

Once we did a bunch of 'explore' type sessions, we moved onto the writing. This came easily because of all our fantastic work in the beginning. Of course then we published and made them all pretty with Autumn colours using dye (The children take great delight in saying things like 'Can I dye now?', and 'Miss BT, I dyed, but I'm still alive'!).

Here's some of our published Haiku poems..

I can't wait to get the leaves up...and show you how we display them! Keep tuned for that in the next week or pop into the class to see the lovely writing...

Miss B-T

Orana Park Postponed

Unfortunately the weather is not good enough for the trip to go ahead today. We will postpone the trip until next Thursday.

Orana Park Trip

At this stage the Orana Park trip tomorrow is on. We remain hopeful that the bad weather will hold off so remember your warm clothing and a jacket.
If it is raining at 7AM the trip will be postponed until next Thursday.
Check here at 7AM for an update. Fingers crossed for good weather!

Springston Explorers Newsletter

Click on the picture above to see the class newsletter bigger. 

Maya's amazing musical email!

Maya sent Mrs Watson an email with a youtube link in it. 


To Mrs Watson,
I like this song lots because it has 5 people playing guitar, so I thought it would be cool for you to check this song out !

From Maya Woods


Click here to watch it. Leave us a comment telling us what you think about the video!

Duck shooting season has begun!

Lachie sent Mrs Watson an email with this photo.

Lachie said he went out with his dad duck shooting and they shot 2 ducks.

Lachie said that the gun was loud but he had lots of fun.

Do you have any questions for Lachie about duck shooting? 

Whio: A New Zealand endangered bird

Click here to watch a video about the endangered Whio.

We did lots of thinking about this video.

We asked ourselves questions using these thinking hats.

Challenge: Watch the video then choose one of the questions and answer it in a comment to us.