Mandarin

In the past few weeks we have been taking Mandarin lessons. We have learned how to say family members, numbers and to have simple conversations. We have learned how to write Chinese characters too and we have really enjoyed learning a different language from a different continent.

 

Class Novel – ‘Where the River Runs Gold’ by Sita Brahmachari

We have been reading a new class novel. We have also been doing group work on it – predicting, summarising and even drawing the characters from the story. The story is set in a dystopian climate change affected future and the story follows the protagonists Shifa and her brother Themba. Together the try to escape slavery and save the world.

 

Christmas Pine Cones

We went to the forest to collect natural resources to create a display for our items. We got berries and leaves. Mr Fogg gave us pine cones and glitter glue and we were able to make cool patterns on our pine cones. We also had an option to add berries to them. We then attached some string so we can hang them on our Christmas trees as decorations!

 

Golden Time Football Tournament

We have started our own football competition! We used problem solving strategies to create fixtures of when each team was going to play each other. We have a league table with points, goals against etc and we used lollipop sticks (random) to select our teams. Each team has created a team name – like Liver Pond FC, Totten Ham and Garden Gnome FC to name a few!