Parachute - Balloon Challenge

This is a presentation of the fantastic parachute/balloon challenge. It was so much fun!

Making Popcorn

We have made all sorts of things with materials in our Unit of Inquiry!

Mini beasts retrospective!

Mini beasts

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Leo's world record rugby playing in Hong Kong

In Hong Kong my team Tanglin beat 3 teams playing rugby. I also got in the Guinness world  record  book for the most children playing rugby at one time. Leo Jagger

UOI - How the world works

In our new Unit of Inquiry we are learning about materials and how they can be transformed for a purpose. We made a wordle about all the materials we can think of.

Happy Birthday Ms Ryan

Next week is Ms Ryan's birthday. The parents came in and celebrated with a cake and present. Nihilan made a cake with his mum for Ms Ryan. He used the clown face as an inspiration from the Mask parade.

Thanks Nihilan and all the class and parents!

Finished Lanterns

We completed our Lanterns for the Mid Autumn Festival!

 

Foundation Day

This week AIS celebrated it's 17th birthday! All Junior classes met on the oval to sing Happy Birthday and have a cupcake!

Making Paper

This week we looked at how paper is made. Paper comes from wood pulp but is a man made material. This was fun!

 

New Unit of Inquiry - How the world works!

 

This week we began the new UOI with the central idea "Materials can be transformed into something different for a purpose. We connected this with our maths unit on 3D shapes and Mid Autumn Lantern Festival and made Lanterns using sticks to make the shape.

Junior School Athletics

Cheering on the team!

This week all the junior school classes had their Athletics carnival. It was so much fun. We competed in wet sponge race, sprint race, javelin, shuttle relay and the obstacle course! Thanks Mr Barnes for organising for us.

Leo in the sponge race

Corinne Gibbons shares her music

Corinne Gibbons visited our class to share her music with our class and 2ME. The visit connected with our Units of Inquiry about Sharing the Planet and How We Express Ourselves. Corinne sang lovely songs about our planet and how we can look after it. Thank you to Cathy Maslen for assisting in making the visit possible.

Max leads his Student led Conference in Russian

I was blown away yesterday when Max started explaining his goals in fluent Russian. This is amazing!

It's Student led Conference Day

Welcome parents to the classroom!

Using dominoes in Maths

We used dominoes in Maths for adding and subtracting. We also used them to design a track to knock things over. We had to work cooperatively with each other and be thinkers to complete the task!

Maths finding Symmetry

We are learning about symmetry in our world. We made patterns to show symmetry on the interactive board and in our books using blocks.

Year 1 Mask Canival Parade

Year 1 celebrated our UOI- How we express ourselves' with a parade using the masks we made in art. 1RY theme was 'Clowns'

It was great fun!

Our Term 3 Assesmbly

Stuart and Ella hosted out Term 3 assembly. We presented our class play called "The 2 dwarfs, their guests and the big crazy house."

Walk-a-thon for Banjo - Singapore Zoo

On Friday we went to the zoo. We raised money for Banjo the orangutang. AIS sponsors Banjo. We went by bus to and back to school. We ate lunch at the zoo and ate recess at school. The best part was when Banjo's friend came up close to the Year Ones.

by Kayla S

Drama Drama Drama

This week was a very short week. We had fun with our drama lessons. Ms Ryan made up stories and we acted them out!



Please look out the short video of Lila the frog princess and Australia the servant girl!

Skype with Bishop Druitt College!

Last week we had a 'skype' with a year 2 class in Coffs Harbour , NSW, Australia. The children asked questions about each school and found some intersting comparisons!

They have only half the children we have - by Will

They learn Japanese by Kayla.

Drama Workshop dance video

Drama Workshop!!!

On Monday the drama workshop came for a drama lesson.We played drama games.We learnt stage positions.I learnt down center stage, up center stage, right stage and left stage.By Ella.

Swimming Carnival

Nick came 2nd in a race!

Stuart getting ready to go in.

On Wednesday we had our swimming carnival. We went in races and tried our best. We were real risk takers! Thanks to Cathy Maslen for taking our class photos. :)

Ella and Abby cheering on their team!

Welcome to Term 3

Another exciting term has begun. I hope all have had a great holiday!

We have started the new unit of inquiry - How we express ourselves. This week we learnt how to do a tableaux! We act and freeze showing at least 3 ideas. This time we acted out our memories.

Mini beast Expo!

The Mini beast expo demonstrated our understanding of the Unit - Sharing the Planet. The children chose a mini beast to inquire about and presented their information using dioramas and information reports including placemats, power point presentations and posters.

My mum came to the mini beast expo she said my work was exellent. She said the class was excellent. By Jason

World Environment Day - Mini Beast Parade

Today was World Environment Day. We got to dress up as any mini beast we wanted too. Year 1 went on the stage to show everyone the costumes.It was fun.

We learnt to protect all minibeasts.

Excursion to the Butterfly Park

We went to the Butterfly Park on Sentosa. We went by bus.

Ms Ryan, 1CA, Ms Ken and some mothers came.

1RY fed the birds and held the butterflies. We went to the museum and we went in a cave.

We saw dead spiders and all types of insects, scary insects, hairy insects and colourful butterflies.

We ate by the water fountain. We saw Toucans.
A bird landed on my head but Georgie scared it away!

by Koko

New Maths Game -Flower Gardens

We learnt to play a new Maths game called Flower Gardens. We need to throw the die and add them together. We put a counter on the flower with the same number. The first person who has all their counters on the numbers wins.

Swim Scheme

Last week we completed our swim scheme. It was so much fun.