Term 1 2016 Newsletter

Making Bird houses

In Room 9 we have been learning about why we want birds to  visit our garden and help birds to move out of our roof so they can be safe by living in bird houses.

 

 

  

We made bird houses for birds. we will hang some of our bird houses in our school garden. we will make sure to put some grains and a water cup for the birds to eat and drink.

We used cardboard to make a box. Then we made a hole in the cardboard for the bird to go inside.

We painted it, then we used leaves, dry grass, hay, sticks and glued them on the top of the bird houses. 

We used leaves, hay, sticks and dry bark to stick on our bird houses, so the birds can feel comfy like in a nest. 

Did you know................

•  some birds can save our garden by eating some insects that eat up the garden.
• Bird poo is good for the garden soil.
• Birds carry pollen from one garden to another and help grow fruits and vegetables.
• Some birds drop seeds and help new plants to grow.

Room 9 Term 4 2015 Class Newsletter

Creepy Crawlies

Our learning about Creepy Crawlies

We made spiders.
We now know spiders are not insects. they have eight legs and two body parts.

Insects have 6 legs and 3 body parts.

Our Insect Hunt Findings

We went on an insect hunt. We found worms, snail, slugs, ants, cockroaches, grasshoppers in our school garden. we made a home to keep these in our classroom. we observe them everyday to see how they move and observe their body parts.

Our Insect classification

Room 9 Newsletter Term 3 2015

Reading Together Reminder

READING TOGETHER PROGRAMME 

This is a reminder to all parents who have booked in to attend the Reading Together programme next term on the following dates –

• Session 1 Thursday 23 July 2.00pm -3.00pm
• Session 2 Thursday 30 July 2.00pm -3.00pm
• Session 3 Thursday 06 August 2.00pm -3.00pm
• Session 4 Thursday 03 September 2.00pm -3.00pm

Brave Book Buddies

Our photo Talk stories we created using 

Brave Book Hero pictures as a part of our 

Intensive Oral Language this term,

Jack was a smart clever boy. He cut the bean stalk and made the enormous giant fall down into his Mother’s garden. BOOM! fell the giant. Jack was the hero because he  made a clever plan and saved himself from the giant and got the golden hen.

The witch was mixing and making some food in a big pot. She wanted to put Hansel in and cook him for a meal. Hansel put a chicken bone out of the cage and said, “I am too skinny for you to eat me.” The witch thought it was his finger because she could not see very well. Clever Hansel.

Hansel and Gretel got lost in the forest. They found a lolly house. They started eating lollies and candies. The witch saw the children and came out of the house and said “Come in children, I will look after you.”

Room 9 term 2 2015 Class Newsletter

Sensational Sounds - Our Observations

Sound experiments

In Term 1, we learnt about sound. we made some observations on  how is sound produced,how sound travels and reaches our ears. we drew pictures and labels to show our observations about sound.

Dancing grains - what happens when you tap the bowl with grains - what did we observe?  - we saw the grains dancing and moving - the grains VIBRATED.
We learnt a new word - Vibration

Balloon Screamer

Musical coat hangers

"I banged a metal coat hanger tied with a string. I could hear the ringing sound in my ear. It sounded like a bell ringing."

Musical wine glass  - "It sounded like an echo in a cave."

String telephone- 
"I could hear my friend talking on the other side."

Room 9 Painting Self Portraits

In Week 7, we painted our self portraits. We mixed three different colours to get a unique colour to paint faces in our self portraits. We learnt how to hold a paint brush and used strokes to paint our pictures.