Challenging Ourselves on the Playground

Thursday is playground day at fitness time. It is good to be there all by ourselves - it's very busy at brunch and lunchtime. We have to do six different activities each time we are there and Carolyn says one of the things we do has to challenge us just a little bit! That means we might feel a little bit scared but we try to go a tiny bit higher or further. Carolyn comes to stand nearby if we are feeling like it would be good to have some help nearby - just in case.

We all know to talk quietly to people when we are encouraging them. 

We also know to always walk up to each other from in front, so somebody who is concentrating hard can see us coming and not get a fright when we speak to them.

 Ella did this for the first time last week - THIS week she was over the wall before Carolyn had a chance to take the photo - she had to do it twice!!

 Wow, Tahlia - you are STRONG! Tahlia is like a monkey on the playground!

 STANDING UP on the wobbly bridge - a new achievement for Alec! Last week he scooted onto the bridge sitting down; this week he walked on! Great Job, Alec!

 Harry - you are like Spiderman! Your head and feet are as high as each other!

 In the photo you can't see how Connor is swinging his body to make the flying fox move along the rail - fantastic, Connor!

 Reagan was showing some great climbing skills here: hand - foot - hand - foot...great work, Reagan.

Felix was an excellent climber, too!

Reagan Shows Us That Learning is Everywhere!

Reagan is at the beach with his family today and I just received a fun email! Reagan spotted fast words on the fridge and did some writing in the sand. Thanks for sharing! That was a fun email to open! Learning happens all around you - not just at school!

Ella's Maths

 

I made all the numbers from one to ten.

I put them on the tens frame.

I did one all  the way to 8.

I made the right number of stickers to  match the tens frame.

Great maths, Ella!

Visiting Willard Home

Ar Russell Street School, we all have a turn going to visit the residents at Willard Home. We sing, read to the residents and share our learning. Today was our first visit and we were so confident and caring. Some of the ladies we read to might come to visit us once a week and listen to us read in our classroom. Here are some photos of our visit. Each of us has written a sentence to go with our photo:

We read to them really nicely - Connor

I really liked it when I read to one of the ladies.
They smiled and laughed because they liked it - Alec

 I liked reading books - Reagan

 The ladies were nice - Harry

They made sure I was reading all the pages right and
I did one mistake and they helped me with it.
 I said "fire truck", they said "fire engine" - Ella

They liked me reading the books to them.
Two little old ladies tried to read - they did a great job!
 Tahlia

 

The ladies liked the books - Felix

A Close Up Look at Our Portraits

Matching our self portraits up with US!

 

We have been working on these paintings of ourselves over several days. Today we took them to show our big buddies. We all stood behind a painting that was NOT our own and our big buddies tried to match us with the correct painting.

We had all paid very close attention to our hair, eye and skin colour. We also tried to make our hair straight or wavy or curly. We must have done a great job with our paintings because our big buddies matched us  all with our own paintings! Here we are all matched correctly: