We are becoming increasingly confident at using different features of the computer and have been learning to type, log on and change the size, colour and font of our text.  We are now able to use these new skills to extend our learning in other areas.   This week we have been using the computers to type words with our new phonics sounds.

In circle time we were introduced to two new friends: Annie apple and Adam apple.  We said lots of nice friendly things to Adam. We couldn’t see what it was doing to his inside feelings but we imagined that they would be feeling good and looking healthy.  We then said lots of nasty things to Annie. Again, we couldn’t see her insides but we thought that they would be feeling sad and looking unhealthy.

Mrs Duncan then (to our horror)  chopped open Adam and Annie. We were stunned to see how our words had impacted upon their insides. Adam looked beautiful and happy. His insides looked delicious.  Annie was very different. Her insides were bruised and unhealthy. It was sad recognising how we had made her feel.  This helped us to understand how our words can affect other people’s feelings.   This is a very important message and we all clearly understood how we can build people up.  We made a big list of words that we said to Adam and we are going to display these in our classroom to remind us what we can say to make people feel good. We also went on a ‘walk’ and used these words to give kind messages to our friends.

We have been learning about lungs this week.  We found out where our lungs are and what they do.  To help us see how powerful our lungs are we made firework pictures using the strength of our breath.  We experimented with big breaths and small breaths to see how it impacted upon the paint splatter.  We all really enjoyed this very messy activity!

We had a Sooyang Do martial arts coach in gym today.  It was great!

“We did really fun martial arts moves to stop us being hurt.”  Matilda.

Here is our superstar friend of the day.  We will be posting our superstar friends every Thursday and Friday.

He was very kind to all of his friends by helping to look after our ICT log ins without being asked.  Without doing this, many of us would have not been able to log on to the computers!  Thank you superstar friend!

We had great fun exploring and investigating 3D shapes outside today.  We worked in teams and had to search for different shapes or for shapes that met certain categories e.g. number of corners, faces the same size etc.  We then took selfies of our group to show the shapes we had found.  This was a surprisingly tricky problem solving task as we had to get our friends and our shape in the same photo.  Mrs Duncan (Th and Fr) was very impressed at how much we could remember about 3D shapes and how well we worked as a team.

We were learning to not give up with a tricky maths job today.  We worked in teams to create our own 3D shapes with spaghetti and marshmallows!   This required lots of problem solving, many models broke and we had to learn to keep trying.  We were very good at this!

We had to look at the 3D shapes closely to find out how many corners (marshmallows) and how many edges (spaghetti) they had.  We also had to think about the size of each shape.  It was lots of fun and we all were able to persevere to make at least one shape!  Please ask your child more about this.

(Thanks to our budding photographer Aaron for helping me capture the evidence with the camera).

Congratulations to these reading champions!  They completed a reading challenge in the holidays and were awarded their certificates in the classroom.

We have been learning to use painting software in the ICT suite.  We are getting quicker at logging in and at using our passwords.  We made tartan using the fill and stripe tools on the computer. We also learned to print our pictures. We were very proud of this new achievement!

We continue to learn about the properties of 3D shape.  We have been experimenting with different shapes to determine which are best for rolling and which are best for stacking.  We worked in teams to create models using different shapes.