Rainbow Cover Up

This week we learnt all about rainbow numbers. Rainbow numbers are pairs of numbers that add up to ten: 0 and 10, 1 and 9, 2 and 8, 3 and 7, 4 and 6 and 5 and 5. They are called rainbow numbers because if you draw a loopy line between them on the number line... it makes a rainbow! Our goal is to learn the rainbow numbers so we know them like lightning. A really fun way to practice is by playing Rainbow Cover Up. Here is how you do it:

To play you need
two players
a handful of counters (or buttons) of the same colour (a different colour for each player)
a ten-sided die *
a cover up game board (it only takes a moment to make your own, have a look at the pictures)

The Rules
The players take it in turns to roll the die. When you roll a number, you put your counter on the rainbow number partner of that number. For example, if you roll a 6 you put it on 4. If there is already one of your opponents counters on that square, you can push it off. If you get the rainbow number wrong, you don't get to put a counter down.

You keep playing until all the squares are covered. The winner is the person with the most counters on the board. The winner gets to have the first roll in the next game!

*If you want to play at home and you don't have a ten-sided die, you can write the numbers 0-10 on pieces of card and draw them out of a bag or bowl.

Move Forward, Beautiful Country

We sing the National Anthem every time we have assembly. We mostly know the words but sometimes it can be hard to work out what they mean. The Australian National Anthem was written a long time ago (by Peter Dodds McCormack in 1878) and the words are a bit old-fashioned. So we sat down together and talked about what the words actually mean. Then we put our heads together and rewrote our own version of the words.

Lauren printed out the old national anthem and what we had written and cut it all up into different lines. We played a game of match up (we had to find the person who had the words that matched ours). Then we sat down in pairs and illustrated each line to make the two versions of the anthem into a beautiful book!

We only sing the first verse of the anthem at assembly but this week we read the second verse as well (there are four all together!). We didn’t rewrite the words but we did talk about it. Some of us are going to try to learn it. Here it is in case you want to learn it too.

Beneath our radiant southern Cross,
We’ll toil with hearts and hands;
To make this Commonwealth of ours
Renowned of all the lands;
For those who’ve come across the seas,
We’ve boundless plains to share;
With courage let us all combine
To advance Australia fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing
“Advance Australia fair!”

New Year, New Class

Welcome to our 2012 blog! We are the class of 1/2K and we are next door to 1/2L. Here are some of the fun things we’ve been doing together in the first two weeks of school:

I enjoyed designing a love machine. Lewis

I have been making new friends in my new class and reading books. I also liked the snowball fight. Damon

I enjoyed voting for the junior school council representatives and I enjoyed writing this blog post. Evie

We made love heart cookies with icing on them for Valentine’s Day! Amelia

We made marshmallow towers. Allister

I enjoyed making the blackbirds for our class display. Lola

 

I enjoyed make costumes out of newspaper. My group made a skirt and a fan. Audrey

I enjoyed counting by 2s and 5s in maths. Mitchell

I enjoyed playing buzz!!! Fionn

I enjoyed colouring in the skeleton hands to make posters for counting by 5s. I loved playing with my friends at lunch. Sean

I enjoyed writing about my love machine picture and writing our version of the Australian National Anthem. Jamil

I loved playing buzz! Eliot

I liked building the marshallow tower and balancing paper on it. Vasco

It was very fun when we did the snowball fight! Sophia

I enjoyed throwing around the scrunched up pieces of paper in our snowball fight! Riley

I enjoyed having a snowball fight and drawing our self portrait and scrunching it up and throwing it around. I also enjoyed building a marshmallow tower and I liked the part where we got to eat the marshmallows! Lizzy

I enjoyed colouring in the socks for counting by 2s. Leila

I liked doing a bird’s eye view of the classroom. Max

I enjoyed throwing chickens up in the air and catching them with nets during sport with Tom. Emile

I liked looking at the butterfly that was in the principal’s office and freeing it in the Butterfly Garden. Tahlia

I enjoyed our first computer lesson. Charlotte

I enjoyed outside play! Nicholas

I enjoyed when we went outside and played silent ball with a blow up globe. Chloe

I’m looking forward to playing fruit salad. Romy

I like writing the blog. Aidan

I’m looking forward to playing fruit salad too. Dean

 

I liked it when we did the love machine writing. George

I liked the bit were we played number soccer with both classes. Vivian

I liked making the blackbirds. Clarrie

I liked the making the blackbirds and listening to the blackbird song by The Beatles. Selvi

I liked sport, art and library. Oskar

I liked learning to sing the blackbird song. Aimee

We've had a wonderful start to the year. We're off to relax. We hope you have a lovely weekend!