Room 1 Buddies

This term we have gotten the chance to meet our buddies. Our buddies are from the Dolphin group in Room 1 with Miss Ryan.

In Week 3 we got  to meet our buddies. We learnt a bit about them by filling out a sheet about our buddies and drawing a picture together.

In Week 4 our buddies came to visit us and we read some picture books to them. Our buddies really seemed to enjoy it.

We will be visiting our buddies again soon, so look out for more photos!

Semester Two Student Councillors

We have now presented our Semester Two Student Councillors with their badges. Each student who was interested had to make a speech about why they thought they would be a good Councillor for Room 11. The class then got to vote on. Our Councillors for Semester Two are Eva Campbell and Liam Kempton.

Eva is a talented student who is 8 years old. Her favourite subject at school is Maths and History. When she is not at school she likes to sleep. Eva thinks she will make a good Councillor because she will help others and has good ideas.

Liam's favourite subject at school is writing and spelling. He thinks he will be a fantastic Councillor because he will help people and solve problems. Liam is 8 years old and outside of school he likes to sit and play video games.

Important Dates for Term 3

Please write these down in your diary or on your calendar, it's a very busy term!

8th August- Senior Assembly, Student Councillors to be announced
                - Cross Country (After lunch)

12th August- ICAS Mathematics Testing

15th August- Junior Choir to visit Donovan Village
                  - I Run for Ipads, 2pm

22nd August- Science Fair Day

25th August- Book Week Event (More details to follow)

27th August- Faction Carnival Jumps and Throws

29th August- Faction Carnival

1st September- Wattle Day

5th September- Room 11 and 14's Assembly (More details to follow)

12th September- P&C Quiz Night

16th September- Parent Information Afternoon- Speaking and Listening (More details to follow)

19th September- Interschool Faction Carnival

23rd September- Learning Journeys (Open classroom afternoon/ evening)

26th September- Last day of Term Three

Welcome to Term 3!

Hello all,
Welcome to another term in Room 11.
We have a VERY busy term coming up, so please keep checking back frequently to find out what is happening and see photos of the events.

Literacy Blocks are continuing to run smoothly in our class. Students have shown a great improvement in their attitude towards home reading. I can't wait to hand out more Reading Certificates and prizes. During Term Three we will be focusing on the writing genres of Reports and Poetry. If you find any examples of these at home we would love to see them.

We are using a new maths resource this term, called Prime Mathematics. It is looking mostly at the number outcomes, but we are really hoping to extend the students in their problem solving abilites and will even learn our 6, 7, 8 and 9 timestables and some tricky division work.

This term in Science we are looking at the topic "Melting Moments". We will be investigating how objects change when heat is added. We will look at solids and liquids, the differences between them and how objects can change from one state to another. You can also look at things that melt at home. Some yummy experiments include watching ice cream melt and melting chocolate- you may even turn it into fondue!

We are also looking at Sustainability this term. We have learnt that sustain means to keep on going and able means can do, so we are looking at how we can treat the earth so that it can keep on going for future generations. Each student has made a 'Plastic Free Pledge' in an attempt to 'go green' and we would love it if you could also help them to keep this promise at home.

We are also busy practising for I Run for Ipads, Cross Country, Faction Carnival and we even have our class assembly this term. Phew! It's going to be a big term, so please make sure to keep an eye on the blog to find out about our events.

Miss Ruddick

Healthy Lifestyles

This term in Health we have been looking at Healthy Lifestyles. In pairs, students brainstormed all of the things that people do to have a healthy lifestyle. We then looked at each of these aspects.

Most importantly we looked at diet. To have a healthy diet you should be following the 'Healthy Plate" guide. This means you eat the most Vegetables, the next largest portion is Healthy Proteins, then Whole Grains and Fruit. The best thing to drink is water! We also investigated which of our favourite foods are the foods that you should eat most, eat moderately and eat least. We were lucky enough to make some healthy milkshakes one Friday Afternoon. We made Strawberry Surprises, which were milk, strawberries and strawberry yoghurt. Most people liked them, but some people found them a little bit bitter.

Here is the recipe if you want to make it at home.

We also researched why exercise is good for us. We learnt that aerobic exercise is good as it helps to make our heart stronger, which makes pumping blood around the body easier. Strengthening exercises are also important as they help to build our muscles, which help us lift heavy things. We then investigated which exercises were best for raising our heart rate. We did stations of exercises which included skipping, running, sit ups, push ups and burpees. It was pretty fun, but we were very tired afterwards.

Here are some pictures of us exercising and checking our heart rate.

Constable Care comes to Wattle Grove

On Monday, 9th June,  Room 11 went to see a performance by Constable Care. We went with all the Year 2 and 3 classes. It was held in the Undercover Area at school. The show was a puppet show about cultural diversity. It was called Celebrations.

 Before we went to the show we looked at where the people in our class were born or where their families come from. Did you know that in Room 11, 9 people were born in a different country? Also that 13 students have parents who were born in a different country. Cool hey!

In the show the puppets had to research how to have a class party that would include everyone. They went to their class mates and found out what games they liked to play, what music they liked to listen to and what food they liked to eat. We learnt about a lot of different foods, music types and games from all over the world.

At the end Verity, the lady who was in charge, asked us questions about the play. Ariel and Elham each won a prize for getting questions correct.

We thought the play was funny, especially when the puppets tried to dance and to play 'Monkey Run to the Pole.' We couldn't stop laughing. It was interesting to listen to how different cultures celebrate. We think we might like to have a class party to celebrate the diversity in our class!  

Welcome to WA Week!

On Monday we had a public holiday to celebrate WA Day. All week long Wattle Grove classes have been looking at towns in Western Australia and learning about them. Room 11 have been learning about Rottnest Island.

Miss Ruddick showed us a PowerPoint about the history of Rottnest Island and some photos of the beautiful beaches and fun activities you can do over there. We made posters to encourage people to visit Rottnest.

We also wrote a persuasive text to try and convince people to choose Rottnest as a holiday destination. We also researched Rottnest Island on the internet and found facts about it. We typed these up and then displayed them from a giant net in our room.

We were also lucky enough to email the class that lives on Rottnest. We asked them some questions and they responded to us. We learnt that there are only 9 kids in their class, 8 girls and 1 boy, and they range from Kindy to Year 5. How strange!

We also created some Quokkas, the small marsupial that live at Rottnest and hid these around the room. Only two people correctly counted the Quokkas, they were Tyler and Cooper.

On Friday afternoon we got to visit the other classes and find out about what they had learnt this week. Room 10 researched Harvey, this is the home of the big orange. Room 9 learnt about Busselton, did you know that the Busselton jetty is 1.8km long! Room 8 learnt about Kalannie, this is where Mrs Beste grew up. Room 20 focused on Shark Bay, here there is a big area of stramatilites, which are very old fossils. Lastly Room 23 learnt about Halls Creek, this is mostly an Aboriginal township and they did some dot paintings.

We really enjoyed our afternoon of finding out about different towns in WA. It was interesting and educational.