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!

End of Year Activities

During the last few weeks of school we did all sorts of fun activities. We learnt about Chanukah and about Christmas. We made present bags and gift tags (using found object stamps). We also made bookmarks (using word cards from our word wall), calendars, paper plate art and planted sunflowers as presents for our families and we read a story called "The Gift of Nothing." Here's some pictures and writing about our end of year fun....

Jewish people celebrate Chanukah and it goes for 8 days. We got colour-in sheets from Dora's mum Rebecca who is a Rabbi. They were felt. Dora is Romy's friend, she was visiting from London. The colour-ins were pictures of dradels. A dradel is a spinning top game that Jewish children play during Chanukah. Lucy

I liked the Christmas activity that we did on Monday. We had to decorate the Christmas trees on the piece of paper. Max R

We made sunflower tags to put in our real sunflowers. Some were orange and some were yellow and some were both. Mine was yellow. Evie

The Christmas activity I loved was planting our sunflowers. Lucy

Collage Calendar Creations

One of our end of year activities was making collage calendars to give as gifts to our parents and friends. They were made from posters that Lauren's friend Jo Lyn found in an opshop. We used a whole lot of different pictures and prints to make a background for the animals we had cut out from the posters. At the end we added a scattering of old postage stamps to make them extra special. The finished pieces looked unbelievably fantastic!

Happy New Year, everyone!

End of Year Reflections

You only have to scroll through the blog to see what a wonderful year we've had! Here are some of the things we've really enjoyed doing together.

My favourite thing this year was Personal Work Time. Ilya
 
I enjoyed writing the blog. Sam

I enjoyed the party and I liked writer's notebook. Josh

This year I enjoyed the blog. Lucinda

I enjoyed planting the sunflowers because mine grew big and tall. Isabel

I enjoyed the other day when Fredrick, Lisa and I went to make bookmarks. Sunita (and her bird)

The thing I like best this year was making my bird. I also liked publishing my Secret of the Rainbow skull story in Writers' Notebook. Isaac

I liked lots of things this year like making picture frames, birds and more. I liked watching videos. Mia

I enjoyed the class party. Felix

These are some of the things I liked: maths, picking junior school councillors, writing, silent reading and doing the roll.  Gareth