Congratulations to Archer whose great focus and work during our Maths sessions was recognized through his getting student of the week this week.
THE LITERACY BLOCK
This week the children have been making their own choices as to what they wished to write about. We have been thrilled with their beautifully detailed planning, their ability to have a go at words before asking for help, and their skills in seeking out words from around the room. If you call in to see their work, look first at their first entry in their book, then look at what they are doing now. It's just amazing!
Max wrote, "I played footy. I got a goal."
Aniston wrote, "I went to my next door neighbour's house."
Hayden wrote, "I am at ANZAC Day and I saw marching soldiers."
3 Card Puzzle Game
The children have been playing this game during the small groups section of the Reading Workshop.
It helps the children to stretch out a word as they say its sounds so as to be able to read or write the word.
The children are becoming more skilled with the process of hearing sounds in words, so ask them to demonstrate their growing skills to you.
TRAFFIC SCHOOL
Our trip to the Traffic school on Wednesday was decidedly the highlight for the week.
The excitement of travelling in a bus is always an excellent start and end to a great day out.
Prue Noble, who some of you may remember as one of Wangaratta West's wonderful teachers, is now the teacher at Traffic School.
We learnt how important it is to have your helmet on correctly. The strap needs to be just right, not too loose or too tight.
Then we were all ready to take off!
We thank John Coxhell for coming as a parent helper on the day.
Our theme this week is "Being Healthy and Keeping Safe", so this outing ties in very well.
We certainly got lots of wonderful fresh air and sunlight on this perfect, autumn day.
We learnt to stop and look before we zipped off to keep everyony safe.
We learnt to give everyone their own space.
Nobody was caught speeding.
We certainly got lots of wonderful exercise.
We patiently waited for the crossing lady.
Sometimes those traffic lights seemed to take an age to turn.
We loved getting to the railway crossing when Thomas the Tank Engine was coming.
We negotiated the roundabout quite well.
There was no overtaking at Traffic School.
So patience and care was needed from all.
The traffic lights were great fun and everyone had to have a few goes at going through them.
We stopped half way through for our picnic lunch.
You may notice a green band on the children's left wrists. These were designed to keep them on the left hand side of the road. They had to keep the 'green' band closest to the 'green' grass on the left.
We need to say a huge "Thank you" to Prue Noble and her team of volunteers who ensured that we had a wonderful time at Traffic School, got lots of healthy exercise, and learnt lots of things to keep us all safe on the roads.
Beautiful, Big, Black Bats
We made these beautiful, big, black bats this week in craft to tie in with our sound of the week, "Bb". The children certainly enjoy the 'spooky' look that they bring to our room.
Off To Northern NSW
While the grade was getting on with their busy week with Mrs Kate Hutchinson on Thursday and Friday, we went zipping off to northern NSW to my niece's wedding.
Last week they had those terrible floods and damaging winds, and as you see when we got there the next lot of rain was building up, just waiting for the start of the wedding.
However as you see Tiffany still made a beautiful bride.
James and Tiffany made a lovely couple.
And despite the bucketing down of the rain we all had a wonderful time together.
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