PLAYER OF THE DAY!

Congratulations Aaron!

Aaron was the Player of the Day at Hockey on Tuesday.

Well done!

WEEK SEVEN'S TOP TEN

CATE & ZOE'S GENIUS HOUR RABBIT FACT SLIDESHOW

AIDAN & ADAM'S GENIUS HOUR FROG SLIDEWHOW

THE ANIMAL CHALLENGE!

Today's Genius Hour focused on us being COMPETENT.  We had to make/draw/write about an animal of our choice but we had to demonstrate that we were competent.  It was great to see how many different ways we could show how competent we were.
Here are a few photos of us...

GENIUS HOUR!

THE GREAT MARBLE RUN CHALLENGE!

Today a few children came up with a challenge for us...

We had great fun creating our marble runs and solving all the different problems we came up with.

We were able to create some amazing marble runs.  We learnt all about angles and used our measurement skills to make sure our marbles fit!

TODAY'S TECH THURSDAY CHALLENGE!

THINKING CHALLENGES IN MATHS

This week Mrs Lunn has given us some thinking challenges to do in Maths.

On Monday we has a problem about cookies.  We had 10 cookies and some were chocolate and some were plain.  We had to work out all the possibilities of how many of each biscuit we could have.

On Tuesday, we had to draw a picture of a snowman.  It had to be made out of 16 circles.

On Wednesday, we had to draw a friend for Robot.  It had to have a square, an oval, a triangle and a star included in it's design.  Here are a few photos of us in thinking action!

Some of the kids also made a maths game for us to play.  Here they are telling us all about it.

A SCHOOL BAG FOR THE TEDDIES

A group or our boys came up with a challenge for Tech-Thursday.

Here's a video of their presentation to the class... 

We were very busy making the school bags and came up with some fantastic results.

THE BOYS' TECH CHALLENGE

PLAYER OF THE DAY!

Mrs Lunn saw Lucy at Hockey today after school.  Lucy had some BIG news!  

She got Player of the Day!!!

Congratulations Lucy - we are so proud of you.

HOT TOPIC AT SCHOOL TODAY - THE EARTHQUAKE

Dear Parents and Caregivers

After last night's big shake the children came to school telling stories about the earthquake.  We decided it was an opportune moment to remind the children about what to do in an earthquake.  

We started the session giving the children a few minutes to talk to their friends about last night and then we went over the  earthquake procedure.  

The procedure is, that if the children are in class they are to DROP, COVER, HOLD. They can go under a table or a bench if it is nearby, otherwise they need to curl up like a turtle.  We have told the children that they need to turn their backs to the glass windows so that any broken glass does not damage their beautiful faces 😉

The children went to pretend to work in our classroom and we pretended there was an earthquake.  I said "Earthquake" and the children all assumed the DROP, COVER, HOLD position.  I spoke to them during our fake earthquake, explaining that in a real earthquake it might be a bit noisy and things might be wobbling about, but the teachers will talk calmly to them the whole time to reassure them that everything will be OK.

After the earthquake, if necessary, Mrs Peck will ring the Evacuation Bell and we will assembly outside.

Next we sang our TurtleSafe Song...

We talked about what happens if you are outside when an earthquake happens.  We told the children that they are to check they are away from anything that could fall on them and then DROP, COVER, HOLD.

The children decided that they would like to write about the earthquake so they were allowed to work alone, or in small groups to write a story today.  

The children were all very calm today.  They seemed confident that they would know what to do in an earthquake and most importantly, they know we will look after them.

I am posting this tonight so that you are aware of the discussion at school as you may like to reinforce this at home.  

Below is a link with a few tips Nigel Latta has on how to help children deal with stress of these types of events.

http://www.goldfishwisdom.org/parents/coping-with-disasters

Thanks for your support and keep safe...

Jo xxx

CONGRATULATIONS KIDS!

A very big CONGRATULATIONS to three amazing learners!

Well done to Sophie and Zena for earning a Candyland Press Pass and to Jackson for earning a Platinum!

These kids each set a personal goal to reach the next level and they persevered and reached it!

Well done!  

We are all so proud of you.

HARRY'S JOKE OF THE DAY!

Here is a video Miss Crowther took of Harry telling his Jokes of the Day.  

They were hilarious  ... thanks for sharing them with us.

THE GREAT FROG CHALLENGE!

TADPOLES COME TO VISIT!

Adam brought his tadpoles in to school.  They created some amazing interest in the kids and we got some fantastic writing out their visit too!

On Friday we held the Great Frog Challenge.  We had a set of criteria we had to meet and here are a few photos of our creative froggy ideas!