Storm in a Teacup!!

Do you know what "a storm in a teacup" means?


1/2B does. We looked it up in a special dictionary called The dictionary of Idioms. We found out it means to make a big fuss over something unimportant.

After we found out what it meant, we watched this short but fantastic clip. Check it out....

Storm in a Teacup

Happy Easter!!

Along with Mexico, we found time to learn about Easter in the last week of school. We even got an email from a certain T.E. Bilby!

 

"This week we have been making Easter bonnets and bilby baskets." Ella

"This week we made Easter bonnets with flowers and sequins and feathers. We put Easter eggs on and ears." Evie

"Today the Easter bilby came." Max

"We made Easter bonnets and last night the Easter bilby came." Daniel

"The Easter bilby came to deliver our Easter eggs." Josh

"This week we made fantabulous, fantastical, amazing, cool Easter bonnets. The were made of plastic and paper flowers, paper ears and paper eggs."  Romola

"This week we got Easter eggs, we got all excited. It was fantastic!!" Felix

"Yesterday we made Easter bilby bonnets. We used flowers made out of material. We got Easter eggs! I love Easter!" Mia

"This week we made fantastic Easter bonnets and we put flowers and eggs on them but the best thing was getting an email from the Easter bilby!" Lucy

"This week we made Easter bonnets and we made bilby baskets and today the Easter bilby came and put eggs in our baskets." Lucinda

 

 

 

Mexico Madness!

The last stop on our 'round the world tour was Marvellous Mexico! We learnt about Frida Kahlo and the Day of the Dead, we played mariachi musical chairs and made Mexican paper flowers (there is a great instruction video here) and paper-mache pinatas.  

Nos divertímos muchisimo!

"We are learning about Mexico, it is fun!" Ilya

"This week we learnt that Frida Kahlo was an artist. She started painting after a bus accident." Mia

"This week we made pinatas. First we started with a balloon and we paper mache-ed it." Sam

"Today we smashed pinatas. Lollies came out." Aidan

"We made pinatas and we broke them today and we ate the lollies. They were yum!" Lulu

Touch Wood

We watched an amazing video called touch wood.

Then we did a lightning brainstorm. We each wrote a sentence or two about the video. We had 15 minutes then we came together and wrote a class poem. We hope you like it:

Timber Tune

In the mysterious forest it is dark and quiet, cold and gloomy.

The tall trunks of the trees are mossy and green.

It's so quiet you can almost hear the sap flowing up to the branches and the leaves.

All of a sudden I can hear a ..

plink

plonk.

plunk.

dink!

It sounds like plums falling on a wooden roof.

The mice scuttle to their burrows then snuffle their noses with curiosity.

Plink!

Plonk!

Dink!

Donk!

It sounds like little drops falling into a humongous bucket.

Plinky...

Plonky!

A little wooden ball, rolling, bowling, bumping, creeping, dropping onto timber blocks.

A marvellous musical pattern, a secret forest song.

A fantastical wooden xylophone singing its timber tune to the audience of waving trees.

The Great Sunflower Seed Sale!!

This is not an April Fool's joke! Our class has, so far made OVER FIFTY DOLLARS selling sunflower seeds at school. We didn't expect to sell so many! We've been colouring posters and decorating seed packets and putting the seeds in and filling orders all week. We even had some people go around to each class yesterday to advertise our sale. 

Today was the first day of selling and we had heaps of orders. The grade 5/6s bought more than 20 packets! We still have orders to deliver next week and we have been keeping a record of our orders in a spreadsheet. When we added up the money it came to $50.50 - that's over 100 packets sold so far! Thanks to all the parents and other adults who came in to help or bought seeds.

Next week we are going to have a class meeting and a vote to decide what to do with all the money we've raised. Perhaps we could use it to start our own garden.....