Saturday Footy

The boys in our class LOVE to play footy! Many of them are in teams that play on weekends. This morning, Mrs G went to watch one of the teams play and was very impressed with their skills! She saw lots of marking, kicking, handballing and running, as well as some great sportsmanship. Great job Ryan, Kaiden, Joel, Jye and Adam!

We have an assembly coming up later this term. Our theme is going to be "Reading" and we'll be singing two songs about books. We have started creating some art to be displayed behind us while we're singing and dancing. We painted self portraits, then chose one of our favourite books. Mrs G photocopied the covers and we glued them to our portraits with cut-outs of our hands to make it look like we were holding the books. We think they look really cool! We really do love reading in our class, especially during Daily 5 time, when we get to make choices about what we read and where we read it.

 

 Love from Mrs G

The Very Cranky Bear

This morning, all of our Pre-Primary to Year 4 students gathered in the library to participate in National Simultaneous Story Time. We listened to the story through the interactive iPad app, projected onto the Smartboard. It was a really funny story about a very cranky bear and how some other animals made him less cranky.

We did some more work on fractions today. This time we used chocolate! We were each given a little box of Smarties, which we had to count. This number would be the denominator.We sorted our Smarties into colours, then recorded each fraction on our sheet. We needed to write it in numbers and in words. For example, if we had 4 pink Smarties in a box that had a total of 12 in it, we would write it as 4/12, which is four twelfths. It was a very delicious Maths task!

Love from The Smarties and Mrs G

We Got Mail!

It was a very exciting morning for the Smarties today. When Mark went to the office to deliver something, Mrs D gave him something that came in the mail for us. It was our very first postcard and it was from Russia! It was in a beautiful envelope with some really cool stamps and pictures.

Our mail from Russia

Today, I had to take an iPad to the office for Mr F. When I left I got the postcard from Russia. When I got back to the classroom, I said out loud, "We got a postcard from Russia!" We are going to put it on the board of postcards. Mrs G let us pass it around. When everyone had a look, we went on the blog. We saw them learning English doing "Little Cow". Then, Mrs G showed us how they write in Russia.


By Mark


In Monday Munchies this week, we tasted raw mushrooms. Some of us have tried cooked mushrooms before, but not many of us have had them uncooked. Some people like to eat them in salads, or just as a snack. We were very surprised to learn that mushrooms are not plants. They are actually a fungus. We thought that all fungi (the plural of fungus) were green, yucky and inedible!

We have started learning about fractions. We know that fractions are equal parts of a whole. We created some delicious looking fraction sundaes to help us understand. What a shame we couldn't make real sundaes! We chose how many scoops of each flavour we wanted, then wrote it in fractions. We thought it was pretty easy because it was just like when Mrs G marks our spelling tests. We get a score out of 15 and it's written as a fraction.

Love from The Smarties and Mrs G

New Bloggers

Mrs G is helping some Year 5, 6 and 7 boys with blogging. They meet every Thursday afternoon to learn something new. Yesterday, they made their very first posts. Please check them out and perhaps leave them an encouraging comment. Next term, our class will be allowed to join the after-school blogging club too!

Bayley's Blog

Matthew's Blog

Lincoln's Blog

Love from The Smarties and Mrs G

Avocado

For Monday Munchies today (we didn't get time yesterday!), we tried avocado. Many of us were very nervous about trying it because we were sure we wouldn't like it. However, once we'd had a taste, we decided it was actually quite delicious! Mrs G even overheard a couple of students talking about asking their mums to put it in their sandwiches tomorrow.

When we opened the avocado, we discovered a huge seed inside. It is brown and smooth and quite heavy. We looked online and found some instructions for growing an avocado tree from seed, so we decided to try it. We plan to eventually add it to our vegetable garden.

Love from The Smarties and Mrs G

Quad Blogging

Our class is quad blogging with three classes from the United Kingdom. This means that each week for the next four weeks, one of our blogs will be the focus and we'll read it and leave comments.

The other classes we're blogging with are:

  

Tetherdown Primary School

Cleopas Primary School

Mereside Primary School

This week, it's our week, so here's a little bit about us!

• We are a class of 26 Year 3 and 4 students.
• We have 5 Year Threes and 21 Year Fours.
• We live in Western Australia.
• Our teacher is Mrs G.
• The boys in our class all LOVE to play footy (Australian Rules Football).
• The girls in our class love to talk!
• We all have blogs which you can find in the right sidebar.
• We love receiving comments!

Love from The Smarties and Mrs G

A World Without Adults

We started learning about the Six Thinking Hats today. The Hats help us to think about things in different ways and can help us make balanced decisions. We learned that the Black Hat is about identifying the negative aspects of an idea and the Yellow Hat is about thinking about the benefits or strengths. Mrs G gave us the topic "A World Without Adults" and we got into groups of three and used the black and yellow hats to think about it from different angles. Even though it sounded like a great idea to start with, once we used the black hat, we realised there would be some problems without adults around!

Yellow Hat Ideas

• We wouldn't have to go to bed early.
• We would not have to get a haircut.
• We would never get told off.
• We wouldn't have to clean our room.
• We wouldn't have to get jobs.
• We would never get in trouble.
• Everything would be free.

Black Hat Ideas

• There would be nobody to wash our clothes.
• There would be no parents to give us kisses and cuddles.
• We would have to cook for ourselves.
• We would need to ride bikes everywhere.
• Little kids might think taking drugs was ok because no adults would tell them not to.
• We might get lost.
• If we got hurt, no-one would help us.
• We wouldn't have houses and furniture

We've been using QR codes in Maths. Our task was to write a number story and then use Qurify to create a QR code for the answer. In Maths tomorrow, we're going to try to solve all the problems and then check our answers by scanning the code! Here are some of the problems we came up with.

Mr Smith had 17 pencils. 12 kids needed to use them. When they had finished, 

only 4 gave them back. 

How many pencils does Mr Smith have now? (Jared)

James had 19 jellybeans. He gave 7 to Jack. Jack gave 2 back to James.

How many jellybeans does James have? (Angela)

I had $23. I gave Mark $7, then Brock gave me $5. I gave Jared $3. 

How many dollars do I have now? ( Adam)

I have 30 cats and 40 dogs. I bought 10 more cats and Alexia bought 1 cat from me. 

How many animals do I have now? (Kya)

Handyman Jared had 18 motorbikes in his shed and they were for sale. 

Jared sold 6 to his mate, Joel, then Mark bought 3 too. 

How many motorbikes does Handyman Jared have now? (Joel)

Love from The Smarties and Mrs G.