Our Movie is Finished

Well, after a lot of work, our movie is all done! We went to JumpStart on Friday and showed our movie to the four-year-olds who will be coming to Russell Street School when they turn five. We felt really proud.

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!

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!

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?

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