Our first week as 1L.

1L have had a wonderful first week of learning together over the last few days. The Lionfish have settled well into our class routines and we have been reading books together, and engaging in a range of writing, maths and art activities. 
Social media plays an important role in our classroom and the Lionfish have enjoyed sharing their activities with people from all over the world through the use of the microblogging platform, Twitter. Below are some of the photos we shared with our friends during a recent lesson on addition.

Our class Weebly has been very engaging for the Lionfish and they have been using their XO laptops to access flash games on the ABC Splash section of our website. More activities will be added to this section of the site so that students can continue to use them in class and also access them at home.

Students have also been using their XOs for blogging. Some of the class have already posted their first entries and have received comments from our friends over in Canada, and also from Mrs. Logan, a teacher friend from Newport Public School on Sydney's Northern Beaches. You can read their posts over on our Kidblog website here: 

http://kidblog.org/1LMEPS/

On Thursday and Friday we connected with a year 3 class from Thompson, Manitoba in Canada. We shared information about our favourite books, local climate, as well as photos of our school playground. We learned that it's very cold over in Canada at the moment, the temperature on Thursday was -46 degrees! 
It's Love to Read Month over in Canada during February so next Wednesday 1LMEPS and the 3BBees are going to Skype each other to say hello before Skyping again later in the month to read each other some books! The Storify of our Twitter conversation is posted below.
What a fun and productive first week of learning it has been, it's going to be an awesome year for the Lionfish! :-)