Edith's class
2008 Term 2
15th August 2008
Hand writing snipits!
Performance Camp 2008
My school went to performance camp. I stayed for two nights. Some went home to sleep. There’s four activities, flying foxes, candle making, rope course and reptile room. I liked reptiles the most. By Liam. When I got back to camp Oasis it felt food to be back. I slept on the top bunk, I was with [six of my friends]. I went on the flying fox, I went upside down and backwards. I made a candle for Mum, it was a pig face. I was glad to see my Mum! By C.
Our school went to performance camp in Mt Evelyn. My favourite
thing there was the giant flying fox. On the flying fox it felt
like my eyes were popping out of their sockets! By Derek We
went to Camp Oasis. It was very, very fun. We got to do some
activities like the flying fox, candle making and rope course
but we were not there to play, we were there to practice the
performance. I felt happy then sad. I felt happy because I was
with my friends . I felt sad because I missed my mum!
By
G
We went on the flying fox. I was a bit scared but I was
on it and I had a smile. I didn’t get to make a candle.
By A
1st August 2008
A belated welcome back to term 3 – it already seems to be flying by! Many thanks to the E. family who so capably cared for our class guinea pigs, Daisy (who seems to have returned quite chubby) and her friend Cutie. This term we have decided to investigate things to do with the sea. We have brainstormed a mindmap of things we already know about the sea and included things we want to find out about it. We are also splashing words to do with the sea all over our rear displayboard. Various forms of artwork are taking shape as we create our ‘gallery glass’ fish and other creatures, work on paintings and collages and follow a set of written instructions to create a working model of something to do with boats or harbours. Any donations of interesting packaging or objects that could be used in our models would be gratefully received – corks, shoe boxes, babyfood jars and empty matchboxes or small cereal boxes in particular at this stage. Our maths games are focussing on developing a practical understanding of the four processes – especially multiplication and division, money awareness and both analogue and digital time reading. The addition of a daily Time Keeper to our chairperson list should also help us consolidate our recognition of times in both forms. On Thursday the 31st we will dress in 1970’s fashion as we help the Lilydale Library celebrate their 70th birthday. We are looking forward to lots of fun there.
26th May 2008
On Monday 19th of May we went to Chesterfield farm. When we got there We found our guide Erin waiting for us. First we went and saw pigs, they were really big. Their names were Petal, Roxy and Ruby. Next we got a cup of food to feed to the goats pony’s ostriches kangaroos red deer spotted deer sheep Alpacas donkeys. We got to milk a cow called Abby, and go on a fun tractor ride. We also saw emus and some people (like me) patted them. Derek wanted to feed them so he put some food on his hand and the emus bent down and…………OOWWWWW it pecked him. We got to see an automatic milk machine. We got to see and hold little chickens and baby rabbits and got to feel how soft a lamb called” Lucy lu” was. By A
20 May 2008
We are now well on the way with the projects about our pets. Descriptions are being worked on and research into their breeds is happening – both at home and at school. Many innovative ideas for presentation are being suggested. I am looking forward to experiencing these at the end of May. Some of the children have organised to have their pet visit our classroom – fun for all of us as they take over the focus of our meetings. Today – Monday – we will visit Chesterfield Farm. Here we will learn about the hows, whats and whys of farms and farm animals; see some pets and think about the differences in the way people treat and interact with them. Some of us have been learning (revising) the Letterland stories about the ‘er’ brothers – ‘er’ – Ernest ‘Er’ with his longer stronger legs who usually comes at the ends of words, ‘ur’ – Urgent ‘Ur’ with his purple, curly, furry boots, and ‘ir’ - Irving ‘Ir’ the ink stealer. They are all robbers who change the sounds of vowels. Others have been learning about Giant ‘all’ the apple eater. We see both of his legs when he stands tall and straight in short words, but he is a lazy giant who likes to lounge on other words. Then he turns sideways so we always only see one of his legs.
5 May 2008
We have been very busy planning our projects on one of our pets and will now begin finding our information. We have been brainstorming verbs for pets and have quite a list of interesting things that pets do. Using these actions we have learned about –ed and -ing endings. Thanks to the other classes for your patience as we completed our surveys. The results will be graphed soon.
21 March 2008
Hi all, welcome back to school for a long term 2. I’m
sure we’ll have lots of fun and it will suddenly be
finished in no time. I trust you had a wonderful, relaxing
holiday. A special thanks to the Marker family for looking
after Blackie and Daisy (our guinea pigs) so well. They have
settled back in very well. Another thanks to those that have
carefully nurtured our vegie seedlings over the break. I hope
they continue to grow to productive adulthood here. This term
our theme is PETS – voted for by the class. We spent some
time this week answering the question “What is a
Pet?”. There were some great answers varying from the
simple “animals” to “a living thing that you
own to keep you company when you are sad or lonely”,
“it gives you love and you care for it” and others
in between. I look forward to seeing your pets as they visit us
during this term. As we approach Mothers Day, there will be
‘secret kids business’ happening in our room, so,
Mums, please try to limit what you see when popping in. Ta.
Just a quick reminder that all children will need their spare
clothes bag updated/replenished for this term – we will
get some wet weather eventually and accidents can happen at any
time.
What a wonderfully relaxing, fun day we had at the Edithvale beach on Thursday. The weather was perfect – warm enough without burning us to a crisp. The understanding of ‘paddling’ varied greatly but all had fun. Sand artists, dam builders, sports and natural history (in the form of jelly fish and a sea star) entertained us all between the essential food and drink stops.
2008 Term 1
18 February 2008
Welcome back to Village for 2008. We also send a big welcome to two new students who have joined our school and our group.
We are getting right into our theme of Healthy Living, looking at freshly grown fruit and veggies – Fresh is Best!
In our first week we had a wonderful time picking fruit at the Brown family’s property in the Basin. Thank you SOOO MUCH. When we wrote down the variety of items we picked and collected we were amazed. On our return to school we cooked a plum cake using some of the freshly picked plums. YUM! We toured the school and discovered quite a variety of fresh produce growing here and look forward to planting and cultivating some more.
Our morning run to the gate and back is helping our blood get pumping to
make our brains work and improve our fitness. Every Thursday we will be
timed to see how much fitter and quicker we are becoming.
This term in our beautiful big rooms we are enjoying eating lunch altogether around the big ‘boardroom’ table. We are even using cutlery with our special lunches on Wednesdays, learning to set the table correctly and taking turns to wash and dry the dishes.
We looked at the shapes made by pieces of
fruit and vegetables and used these shapes to
design pictures. Using correctly coloured
pieces of paper we tried to cut out the shapes
and capture our design. On Thursday and
Friday we made our pictures out of the fruit
and veggies. They were fantastic to look at
…. But after a day in our warm room we
were not so keen on the taste … yes – Fresh
IS best!