Spring blossoms and Sad Goodbyes

We made Mexican paper flowers to decorate our seasons tree. Wally the winter woolly fairy gave us the instructions in a letter. It's a while since the start of spring but the weather's only just started warming up. It was easier than we thought it would be but they looked goregous. Then we had a farewell party for Vivian who is going back to Vietnam, which is sad. It was a lovely party though. Gee we'll miss her!

 

Bird Nests

Our 1/2 integrated topic this term is animals with backbones. Each class is learning about a different group of animals. Betty’s class are the fish experts (ichthyologists), Jared’s class are looking at amphibians (herpetologists), Mr Griffin’s grade are learning all about mammals (mammologists), Moya’s class are the reptile people (also herpetologists) and we here in 1/2 K are the ornithologists (that’s bird experts). On Fridays, after morning tea we do science for 2 hours!! Every week. This week we stayed in our own classes, next week we visit a different teacher.

So this week we stayed with Lauren and made bird nests. First of all we looked at beautiful bird nest photos (http://twistedsifter.com/2011/05/25-photos-of-birds-nests-sharon-beals/). They were cool! Then we went outside and collected some stuff (plants, sticks, leaves, straw and other bits and bobs). After that we came back to class and used a paper plate and started sticking, cutting and gluing. Every now and then, we did a sticky test to check that it wouldn’t fall off our plate. Some of us did it and found that everything fell off but we got there in the end.

We made our classroom into an amazing mess! A garbage bin, a pig sty, our bedrooms, a dog’s dinner, a war zone and a bomb site. We had to clean and clean and clean and clean. We had to be cleaners. 

Here are some words to describe our nests: wonderful, sensational, beautiful, fantastic, tangled, feathery, fabulous, soft, garden-filled, twiggy and sticky (in every sense of the word).

Rainy Days Rule!

It looked like it was hailing outside at morning tea last Friday. We had to stay in our classroom and another class (Mr Griffin’s class) came in. At the end of wet day time table we had to pack up. But we didn't mind too much, we'd had such a lovely time!

These are some of the things we did:

We got out the lego and worked on the grey carpet next to the nature table. We made lego minecraft characters, one of them was a super panda.

I enjoyed winning a game against Dan and Dean. I pretty much always play snakes and ladders and I love packing it up. Lewis

I enjoyed making my minecraft lego person. Allister

I made a lego temple. Jordie

I was drawing on the mini whiteboards. I drew a pretzel bunny and a pretzel puppy. Evie

I loved wrapping things up and making presents. We made presents for Lauren and Lewis and Dan. Charlotte and Milly

I enjoyed making lego with Allister, we finished them. Jamil

I drew a werewolf girl and a cat girl. Alisha

I did two different things – I played skittles and made a forest habitat. Clarrie