Word of the Week – compassion
Here we are with another word of the week. A little later than usual because Mrs S has been at home with a cold and not at all her usual busy self. Our word of the week last Wednesday was compassion....
View ArticleWord of the Week – dehydration
Here is our latest word of the week. Take a look at our Animoto and see what observations we came up with this week. Well done to Jess who added a new observation to her work to let us know that...
View ArticleWord of the Week – environment
Our latest word of the week is environment. We looked at this because it has the same tricky part to spell as government. Watch our animoto. Environment begins with “env”. Please leave comment to...
View ArticleCreating Frieze Patterns
After creating our ArtRage patterns our class explored translational symmetry with their initials. In our last blog post we shared our dot patterns and in this blog post we are sharing the frieze...
View ArticleWorking on Inferring
Last week Mrs S worked with us on the reading skill of inferring meaning. We use the knowledge that we already have (our schema) with the evidence that we can see in a picture or read in some text to...
View ArticleWord of the Week – diorama
This week our word of the week was diorama. Mrs S chose this because of the ‘r’ sound (r as is robot) that was the same as our spelling investigations before the school performance and because she had...
View ArticleWord of the Week – dimensional
Our word of the week this week was dimensional. Mrs S chose this because we are exploring the properties of 3D shapes and their nets. Take a look at our Animoto to see the spelling and vocabulary...
View ArticleA New Year, A New Class and a Continuing Blog Journey
The new school year has just started here in Tasmania. We have been back at school for four days. Our books are sorted and many of the class are busy helping cover their books ready to fill them with...
View ArticleWord of the Week Number 1 for Term 1 2013
Here is our first word of the week for this year. We will be exploring lots of words during the year and have started out by looking at maths words. There are many words we hear that have a special...
View ArticleOn The Lookout for Some New Species.
Over the last month we have been working on creating an information book about a newly discovered alien creature. First of all we created our creatures by using cursive writing and symmetry. Take a...
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