Springston News is back!

I was watching the first episode we made and was feeling sad that we haven't been able to find time in our very busy year to make another episode. Then I had a great idea - I should offer it as an option for choice and challenge!
Here is the episode created on Friday. The children decide what they are saying and do most of the filming. I put it all together using imovie. Let us know what you would like to see on here by leaving a comment!

Reading sure did ROCK at Springston School!

We had a fantastic time at Reading Rocks on Thursday. Adrian was very funny and he told us lots about how he learned to juggle by reading a book. He told that we can learn lots of things from books and that we should keep on trying with our reading.

We were especially interested when he talked about IMAGINATION!

We went back to class and practiced it with our class novel James and the Giant Peach. We talked about what pictures we could see in our head when we were listening to the story.

It was a great way to get us buzzing about Book Week next week!

We are so excited about Book Week!

This week is book week at Springston School. The Springston Explorers love books and we are really excited about all the great activities that are planned for the week!

Some of the great things we will be doing are:

• Reciting our favourite poems on Thursday.
• Junior LitQuiz on Thursday. Get your team of 4 registered with Mrs Winter and head to the library to read the books the questions will be about.
• We will be finishing our posters that share why we love our favourite book so much.
• The teachers will be moving around the classrooms reading their favourite picture book to different classes.
• We can enter our rockets or space ships into a competition too.
• We will be having our dress up like your favourite character day on Wednesday.
  

There is lots more too!

I hope you are busy getting your favourite character costume ready for Wednesday!

Cleo the cat is ready for the Rugby World Cup!

Fantastic game tonight! Cleo (Mrs Watson's cat) was loving the game too. Dan Carter is her favourite we think! Check out our countdown to the World Cup on the right hand side of our blog.

Our Electricity Wiki

Our inquiry this term is all about Electricity.

We have been exploring lots of great electricity websites to find information and learn about how electricity works and what makes it.

Some of us have decided we wanted to share what we have learned on the internet.

So we are learning how to create a wiki to share out learning.

We have been talking about what makes a site useful and interesting and we will now decide what information we want to share with people.

Click here to visit our Electricity Wiki

We have only just begun making them. Keep checking back to see our progress. If you have any feedback or tips please leave a comment.

Space Week!

This week in Room 1 we will be reading about Space.

We will do this quiz about space. Space Quiz

How much do you know about Space? Take the quiz and leave us a comment letting us know how you went and what you think was the most interesting fact.

Maths is awesome!

Over the holidays we got new maths games for our class. Today was our first day playing with them. At the end we talked about how fun they were to play.

Sum Swamp

It was fun - Brodie

It was good because we followed the rules - Chloe

It was good because we got to play with other people - Taylah

Bus Stop

It fun because you get to collect people and lose them - Lucy

It was fun because you get use cool buses - Daniella

It was cool because we get to choose a bus - George

Auntie Pasta

It was fun because you get to make pizza and when you spin the thing you might have to give one back - Jess

I was about to win but I had to keep getting boxes - Isabella K