Thursday, September 23, 2010

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.

Friday, September 17, 2010

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.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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!

Monday, September 6, 2010

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."