The last few weeks have been very busy for 1L, with lots of eciting things happening in class.
We have continued our Skype sessions with the 3B Bees in Canada, reading them Possum Magic by Mem Fox and having a question and answer session about our Edventure Time and their Maker Time. After the book reading, we had a joint 'Tim Tam Slam'. This is when you bite both ends off of a Tim Tam biscuit and suck milk through it, like a straw! It was great fun to be eating delicious treats and sharing the experience with students and teachers on the other side of the world!
We have continued our Skype sessions with the 3B Bees in Canada, reading them Possum Magic by Mem Fox and having a question and answer session about our Edventure Time and their Maker Time. After the book reading, we had a joint 'Tim Tam Slam'. This is when you bite both ends off of a Tim Tam biscuit and suck milk through it, like a straw! It was great fun to be eating delicious treats and sharing the experience with students and teachers on the other side of the world!
We have been engaging in a lot of hands on activities during our maths lessons, such as dice games, using geoboards to create 2D shapes and blocks and counters to show place value. We have also joined the 3B Bees 'math photo a day' Instagram challenge for which you upload a maths related photo every day. Some of our photos are below.
Mr. Hewes has brought in a tent which looks like a castle, which we call the Quiet Castle. Each day a different group uses the Quiet Castle for reading groups and other classroom activities. We LOVE the Quiet Castle, although at times it does become the noisy castle! During reading groups some of us have also started using Storybird to create stories based on artworks made by real artists. The introduction to one of our stories is below. It is a cool story about an angry and upset vampire girl!
We have continued our project-based learning around bugs, finishing our ladybug craft and practising our cartoon drawing. We 'think, pair, shared' and have all chosen which insect we will be putting onto our final blog post to share with our friends overseas.
Our project is so exciting that Mr. Nick came running into our class the other day with a praying mantis! We have put her into our terrarium with Trevor the beetle and have been feeding her all sorts of things like ladybugs, crickets and even daddy long legs spiders. She ate 9 spiders in the space of a day! She is getting a very fat belly! After putting the call out on Twitter and Instagram, we have decided to name her Frances, so we now have Trevor the Beetle and Frances the Mantis.
Mr. Hewes has also caught us some antlions and we love to catch ants for them to eat. We have many helpers who like to catch ants with us at recess and feed our antlions. We put a video up on our class Instagram gallery with some of the lionfish students explaining what antlions do and how they feed. They are a gruesome predator! Some of us have chosen to draw and write about the antlion as part of #ProjectPokemon, because there are really no 'how to' pages on cartoon antlions, we decided to put a mane around a cartoon ant. 'Ant' 'lion', get it? :-)
Our project is so exciting that Mr. Nick came running into our class the other day with a praying mantis! We have put her into our terrarium with Trevor the beetle and have been feeding her all sorts of things like ladybugs, crickets and even daddy long legs spiders. She ate 9 spiders in the space of a day! She is getting a very fat belly! After putting the call out on Twitter and Instagram, we have decided to name her Frances, so we now have Trevor the Beetle and Frances the Mantis.
Mr. Hewes has also caught us some antlions and we love to catch ants for them to eat. We have many helpers who like to catch ants with us at recess and feed our antlions. We put a video up on our class Instagram gallery with some of the lionfish students explaining what antlions do and how they feed. They are a gruesome predator! Some of us have chosen to draw and write about the antlion as part of #ProjectPokemon, because there are really no 'how to' pages on cartoon antlions, we decided to put a mane around a cartoon ant. 'Ant' 'lion', get it? :-)
Edventure Time and Developmental Play has continued on Tuesday and Friday afternoons and we have been making some really cool things. We have been building a wooden castle and colouring in circus and fairy artworks. We have also started to create craft flowers and dragonflies using pipe cleaners, glue and pom poms. We also have some Minecraft mini LEGO called The Village. To make The Village, you have to follow the photo instructions, work together and go step by step. You also need to keep all of the pieces well organised so that you don't lose any. Losing just one piece will mean that we can't complete the building. It's actually made for kids much older than us at 10+, but we like the challenge. It's going to take us several weeks to build!
We have recently updated our XOs to the latest Android Operating System and given ourselves new avatars. The new system will be great, with lots of new apps installed and better browsing for when we access our Weebly site and blogs at school, plus our new avatars are really awesome!
Finally, we have a massive dragonfly hanging above our reading and bloggers corner and it looks like it's flying!!!
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