Mr Murray's Last Day!

Today we said goodbye to Mr Murray. He will be popping back in next term but we will miss having him with us!

Mr Murray - we have loved having you teaching and learning with us! I'm especially going to miss your technical expertise, your passion and natural gift of putting things in a way that children respond to!

See you next time! - Here's your digital farewell card!

Production Pics

We have a few side of stage production pics in our class dropbox folder you can see. You can even download them if you want to keep a copy for your self. Click on the pic below to get a closer look!

Ben's Showme - Adding Fractions

Today Ben made a great showme about how to add fractions with different denominators! (That's the part at the bottom, remember?)

Nice work, Ben. You're a trail blazer! I wonder who else will share what they've learned in a way that can help others.


You can leave some comments below this post - did his showme help you? I think it's fantastic, Ben.

100 Word challenge - Totara

Here are two of the stories from Totara (when I was relieving in their class) for the 100 word challenge. This is a website that sets a chalenge for the week. This week's task was to write 5 sentences about this picture. Here are the stories from Nick and Bailey.

Nick
One day a lady went pushing her pram and a wheel started wobbling. She started to think it was broken so she went to check it. It rolled down the hill into a pond but a man jumped over like a cheetah and saved the pram. The man said that the water was cold.

Bailey
There was a gardner making his flowers perfect. He was thinking about the roses because he was worried. He was feeling worried because he wanted to win a prize to Hawai. He was gardening as fast as a leopard running. The roses were as red as lava!

Reading with fluency

The Elephants reading group made this digital book from a journal story called, 'Never give up!'  They were able to listen to their fluency and hear what they can do well and what they work on. They wrote down a goal that they will work on - things like pausing at full stops and correcting their reading when they make mistakes. Here's their digital book!

Describing the setting

Today our writing workshop was about how to describe the setting of our short stories. We used this photo to use a snowflake tool about it's physical features and one of our senses.

Here are two amazing setting descriptions from Samantha and Brock. Especially listen for the incredible use of personification by Brock. Great work, Masters!

Paper Surveys - Parents - Competition

We are hoping to gather some data about how we use paper. We have created some surveys for parents, students and teachers at our school. This should help us create some solutions to our 'paper problem' - 'How can we be more sustainable with paper?'

Can you fill in our parent surveys? Every entry to our surveys goes into the draw for a king size bar of chocolate! - Yum!

Parents Survey - Recycling

Parent Survey - 2

School Newsletter Survey