Our Library Adventures...

Charlie, Eva and Ollie would like to share their library adventures this week…

Charlie says:

"I was reading the book of Guinness World Records 2011. I skipped to page 65 and I found information about insects. I found out that centipedes have LOTS of legs!"

Eva says:

"I went on an adventure with the Cat in the Hat. Nick and Sally ran out of honey! Cat in the Hat received an invitation to the Queen Bee's hive for a dance…and they got honey from the bees! Nick and Sally went home and had a tasty honey sandwich"

Ollie says:

"I went on an adventure to a lab! A scientist wanted to make me a test subject. I had to taste lots of different types of sauce. I liked the sauce that came from a different planet!"

Exploring The Bush...

Today we went exploring in the bush to hunt for living creatures. We used lots of different tools to help us. We used magnifying glasses, shovels, nets and lots more...

We used magnifying glasses...

We used classification sheets to help find the correct names for some of the bugs we found.

We found worms, slaters, spiders and different kinds of leaves...

Library time...

When we visit the library we always jump into new adventures and learn new and exciting facts.  Romy, Alex D and Megan would like to share the  adventure they went on at the library this afternoon…

Romy
"Today I read a Fancy Nancy book and I went to a party with Nancy's sister Jo Jo. It was Jo Jo's birthday and it was a pirate party."

Alex D
"I read a non-fiction book called 'knights'. I learnt that in the olden days, knights had to practise and try hard to fight to protect villages. The gold swords were very sharp" 

Megan
"I went on an adventure with Marmalade Duck. Marmalade Duck and I made some marmalade jam. Bear tried to stop us from making jam so he could give us his honey… but we wanted to keep our jam!"

Swimming Fun Day!

Our New Sandpit...

We are SUPER lucky to have a brand new Sandpit to play in. On Monday, we got to have our first play...

We even have a Land Rover to play in! Think of all the adventures we can go on now!

Fractions!

We have started learning about fractions. We have talked lots about what a half 1/2 means. On Monday we took part in some special challenges to try and find a 1/2 in lots of different ways. We also had to record our ideas on a piece of paper and share them with the class...

Here we are trying to find a half of a cup of water. How would we find the half way mark?

If we have 12 lollies and we ate half, how many would we have left?

If a circle had 10 dots and an ant walked around half of the circle, how many dots would he walk past?

How much money is in the jar? If I gave you half, how much money would you have?

Hmmm 16 uni-fix cubes and I need to find half…

Got it! 8 +8 is 16….so if I count 8 cubes, I can find half!! 

Half a blob of play-doh!

A trapezium is half of another shape…got it. A trapezium is half a hexagon!

If I filled this container to half way, how many cubes would I need?

First Week Of Swimming!

What a fabulous week of swimming! We are learning lots of special swimming skills like floating on our tummies, floating on our backs, blowing bubbles under water, kicking and lots more!

Star fish

Floating on our backs

We love to play games too, like fishy in the water!

Whirl Pool!

Diving through the hoop!

Diving through the hoop!

Diving through the hoop!

Kicking with pointy toes!

Exploring the bush at Normandale School!

As part of our unit "What lives in the bush?" we are learning about different bugs and insects. On Thursday we went exploring to see what we  could find!

Bailey is digging a hole!

Ohhhhh look what we found! Lets have a closer look!

We can use our special magnifying glass to have a really good look!

Our Zoo Trip!

The Junior Syndicate was super lucky on Monday to have such GREAT weather for our Zoo trip. In the morning we all participated in some activities which included learning about the little blue penguins, the kiwi, tuatara and we even got to plant our own pot plant! Here are some photos...

Here we are learning about the little blue penguins.

Here are the gibbons!!

Tuatara

Making hand prints.

One of our favourite animals were the Squirrel Monkeys! They were super cute. We even gave them special names.

Planting time!

The Cotton Topped Tamarins were also super cute!

Did you know we even got to feed the Giraffes!  

Kangaroo!

Tasmanian Devil!

Emus!

Chimps! Unfortunately they were all sleeping!

We had a great time at the Zoo!