Bye Bye Wattle

Friday was Wattle's last day in A3.  He has been visiting us from Australia for the last 7 weeks and now it is time for him to go back to his class Learning Together.  We have had lots of fun with Wattle and we are going to miss him, but we are looking forward to seeing our giraffe Wally again.  Take a look at the video to see what Wattle got up to while he was with us.  

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Here is a video of us singing a goodbye song for Wattle.

Farewell to Five

Yesterday was Maqushio, Shirley, Lolo, Malik and Rachael's last day in A3!  Our classes are getting too big so they have gone to B3 to help Miss Mooney start a new class.  We will miss them but we know they will have fun in B3.

Meeting the kittens

On Thursday we skyped with our friends in Australia, Learning Together.  We got to see their rabbit blue bell and her seven kittens.  The kittens have grown since we last saw them and Wally is having a great time playing with them.  You can see Wally playing with the kittens by clicking here.   

Wattle is saying hi to his classmates.  

Futuristic Transport

Once a week A3 goes to the library to work on the computers with Ms Clark.  Last week they were learning to use kidpix to draw futuristic transport.  Take a look at their amazing creations.

Run run as fast as you can!

On Friday we baked gingerbread men.  It was a messy job but lots of fun!  We watched the gingerbread men carefully to make sure none of them ran away and lucky for us none of them did. 


The gingerbread men waiting to be eaten



The Gingerbread Man

We have been reading different versions of the Gingerbread Man this week.  Some of the children have written their own versions, watch the video to see what they wrote.

Sweet Sticky Buns

We have been reading Greedy Cat and on Friday we decided to make some sweet sticky buns.  Take a look at the slide show to see how we did it.  Deziah and Maqushio did a great job as our official photographers. 

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Here is Amalani reading his story about the sticky buns.

The Dark Dark House

This week we have been reading a poem called 'The Dark Dark House'  We wanted to act it out and we needed a dark dark box to do it.  

Take a look at the video to hear us reading the poem and see what comes out of the box. 

Wattle and Wally have arrived!

Today we received an envelope in the post and inside we found Wattle and Wally.  There was also some vegemite and a book full of stories that the children from Prep K and Prep S had written.  Wattle and Wally said they had had a great trip, although they had been a little frightened by the tornado.  Wattle is going to stay with us and Wally is going to spend his time in A4.  Take a look at the video to see what Wattle got up to on his first day here.

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Fantastic Frog

Yesterday we had a frog in our classroom.  It was really exciting to watch him climbing the walls with his sticky feet and jumping into the water.  Some of the children wrote about what they think a frog eats.  Can you think of anything else they might eat, leave us a comment and let us know.

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Bubbles

Last week we read the book 'Bubbles' and on Friday we went out to blow some bubbles of our own.  It was a perfect day for bubble blowing and we had lots of fun. Check out our video.

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Here are some of the children reading stories they wrote about our bubble experience.

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Our Garden

We have been doing some gardening over the last couple of weeks.  First we had to pull out all the old plants from the garden then we planted some vegetables and flowers.  It was a lot of work but we are happy with our new garden

This is our garden before we pulled out the weeds.

Take a look at our slide show to see all the work we did:

Late By Lolo

We had a school picnic and meet the teacher evening last night and Lolo wrote a story about why he didn't make it.  Lolo practiced reading his story fluently before he recorded it on the blog and I think the practice paid off.  Well done Lolo, keep up the good work.  

Two little birds

Last week we read the poem two little dicky birds and we decided to paint pictures of what we thought the birds might look like.  We experimented with mixing the colours and it was a lot of fun.  Take a look at our video to see the results of our hard work and to listen to us reading the poem.



Fruit Kebabs

On Friday it was Miss Sinclair's last day in our class until she comes back in May.  As a farewell Miss Sinclair made fruit kebabs with us.  We made enough to share with A1 and A1 made chocolate sundaes for us.  It was a very fun day and everyone enjoyed the yummy food.  Thanks Miss Sinclair! 

Here is a Rohit's story about making the fruit kebabs.

Cupcake madness

Today we made cupcakes and they were yummy.  We worked together to add and mix all the ingredients then we iced cupcakes and ate them up in the playground.  Take a look at what we did.  

Two of the children wrote stories about the cupcakes.  Do you like cupcakes too? 

Introducing A3

We have had two days back at school already and we are getting to know each other.  Take a look at our video to get to know the students who are part of A3 this year.  They can't wait to share all their leaning with you.