Wednesday 30 November 2011

More BFG Writing

We are still enjoying reading the BFG. 
Here's what we wrote about today.
We are listening for sounds in our words 
and adding a second idea to our writing.
Today we talked about the way "g" sounds like "j" sometimes.
It's also a bit of a guess when we hear a "c" or "k" because they sound the same. Carolyn helps out and we don't mind if we guessed wrong!

Tuesday 29 November 2011

Discovery Time

Discovery Time on PhotoPeach
Today we had Discovery Time. Carolyn took photos of us while she was outside. This is what we were doing:

The Big Friendly Giant


We are reading a CHAPTER book! 
It is called "The BFG' by Roald Dahl.
While Carolyn is reading, we make movies in our head and use our IMAGINATIONS to think about what everything looks like. Carolyn is AMAZED at how well our "movie cameras" are working.
Each day, at the end of the chapter, we wonder what will happen next. Today during writing time we wrote together on the big screen. Look how many sounds we heard!

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Face Time

Today we drew a face and now 
Carolyn has put our drawings away. 
We are all wondering when we will 
get to see them again...
After we drew the face we looked closely at this face.
 
We spotted:
Teeth - and felt our teeth with our fingers
Gums - the pink skin that holds our teeth in
Eyelashes - we tickled our fingers with them
Eyelids - we "put the lids on" our eyes just like a peanut butter jar
Eyebrows - we frowned really hard and tried to see our own eyebrows
Lips - we made fish lips and wobbled our lips with a finger which made a wobbly sound
Eyes - we looked at a friend's eyes and told them what colour their eyes were
Cheeks - we puffed them up and played drums on them! That was a funny sound. We all laughed!

What will we do next in our learning about faces?

Wednesday 16 November 2011

Dear Board of Trustees....

Dear Board of Trustees.

We are the little Einsteins. We are the newest kids at school. Carolyn is our teacher.
We have been learning to:    point at every word
                                             hear sounds when we are writing
                                             we are trying to do a detailed picture

We made a movie at the playground and the garden and the sickbay and the bike cage and the library and the office and the toilets.
We are making the movie for all the kids to show them how we are learning how to do stuff.
We need to show it to the kids who are new so they know where to go.
The big boys and us make the movie on the camera then Carolyn shows it to us on the “big scream”.
We are going to show the movie to the kids in Jump Start.

In Maths we are learning to count backwards from 20.
We have been counting what is before and after.
We have been counting lollies in jars.

Handwriting
We have been learning to write our names in our purple books and writing 1-2-3-4-5
Today we noticed we did our names much better today than on Monday.
We put the little letters up by the dots and the tall letters by the top lines.

We have been painting elephants and we painted the sky and we are painting the bushes for the elephant next week.
We are learning not to go over the lines.

Sometimes we have holidays called weekends because we work very hard at school and we need a rest!
We put our bags on our bag hooks.
We put our brainfood, bookbags, drink bottles and lunch boxes away.
If we call out too much our name goes on the board :( 
We put our shoes by the wall with the toes by the wall and our socks go inside.
At choosing time you can choose play-dough or Mobilo or cars or drawing or KidPix or games or puzzles or books.

This is us before our assembly.

We are awesome!
From The Little Einsteins

Sunday 13 November 2011

Our Jump Start Movies

We have been making movies to show the Jump Start kids. 
We worked with Carolyn first, doing lots of thinking about the places in our school. 
We walked  around the school and took photos of all the places we could see. 
Then we made a list of five facts about each place. 
Next, our buddies from Room 9 took us and our five facts and helped us film our movie ideas. 
Carolyn is now learning to upload videos to our blog, so watch this space, more movies will be added!

Wednesday 9 November 2011

More Painting

We had an elephant in our Big Book last week and decided to paint one. Look how hard we are concentrating. Here's what we want to tell you about our painting: 
Issraa - we were painting elephants
Toby - I was very good at it
Marion - we mixed white and black to make grey
Patrick - I did some of mine a bit silly - like the ears
Jayde - they are up on the clothesline so our mums and dads can see them and so they can dry
Jack - I was cool at it - my best bit was the long nose!


Painting Elephants on PhotoPeach

Bubble Writing

Today Carolyn gave us all a little bottle of bubble mixture and we had lots of fun blowing bubbles in our classroom! Our writing about bubbles was wonderful, so we thought we would share it with you.

In writing we are learning to:
Draw a detailed picture
Match our picture to our story
Make "magic writing" or letters across the page from left to right
Hear first sounds in the words we want to write
Write some "fast words"

As you can see, we are doing a  wonderful job...












Tuesday 1 November 2011

Word Power Wednesday

Every Wednesday we choose one of our "fast words" to practice. Today it was "look". Our slide-show shows how hard we were working and how proud we were of our efforts.

Here is what some of the Little Einsteins said about our learning:
Jayde - I wrote with "look" with the rainbow pens
Toby - I did "look" on KidPix
Jack - I liked doing "look" on the computers
Patrick - I am very proud of my chalk "look"
Issraa - I liked doing it on the whiteboard
Sophie - I liked doing "look" with playdough
Billy - I liked doing "look" on the computer
Zoey - I liked doing "look" on the whiteboards, too

Look - It's Word Power Wednesday! on PhotoPeach