Monday, June 25, 2012

Elmer

This week we are reading the story Elmer by David McKee. If you have not heard the story before have a listen to it.

Elmer the Elephant from Mark O'Hanlon on Vimeo.

Today we collage our own Elmer's.
We also drew our own Elephants.
By Alex B

Friday, June 22, 2012

Don't forget Grandma

Elephants reading group have been learning to read with fluency. They read the play 'Don't forget Grandma' to practice reading with fluency.

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Mehki Reading



Habits of Mind: Applying past knowledge; striving for accuracy

Soccer

We have been learning how to play soccer.


Habits of Mind: Persisting; striving for accuracy 

Trayvond's explanantion


Online recording software >>

Liily Story

I    wnt        to      the         prk            wit   my       mum       and        dad    I       pla on the   swing,



Audio recording >>


by lilly

Monday, June 18, 2012

sun

today I made a sun.
by Lilly

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Wearable Arts

For the past week we have been getting ready for our school wearable arts show. We had to make our costumes, practice our song, and practice going on stage. Tonight was the show. We were very excited and we thought we looked fantastic as shining sun's.






Well done Room 12. You were fantastic.

Monday, June 11, 2012

Explanations

We have been learning how to write explanations. Have a read of Tamelia's and Tayla's Fantastic explanations.


                                   By Tamelia 

Record music with Vocaroo >>




                                                    By Tayla

Fantastic Writing

Take a look at the fantastic writing we have done.

                                    By Makaiden


                     
                                                   By Caleb



                                   By Lilly

Friday, June 8, 2012

Cat in the hat

Last week we read 'The cat in the hat' by Dr Seuss. We did a brainstorm of what the cat in the hat is like, we made our own cat in the hats ans we wrote stories about what we would do if the cat and the hat came to our house. 


Here is a you tube clip of the cat and the hat story.



Habits of Mind: creating, imaging and innovating; Thinking Flexibly

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Certificates

Room 12 have been working really hard. Look at all of the people who have recently received certificates for there hard working.






Certificates

Today in junior assembly Gian and Caleb both received certificates:
Gian got his for working hard in writing. He has been sounding out new words and using words he already knows. Keep up the good work Gian
Caleb received his certificate for making connections between reading and writing. Well done Caleb.


Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Playground Fun

In Room 12 we having been working hard on Managing ourselves. Because we doing so well we got to have a play on one of the seniors playground.



Habits of mind: Wonderment and awe; finding humor.