Cultural Identity

We have been learning about the different cultures within our class, along with learning some new computer skills such as adding images and videos.  Here is the work from Jacob and Sophie

Lunchtime Basketball

We are lucky enough to have the coach of the Canterbury Rams, Mark Dickel, and one of their players, Marcell Jones  at school for 5 lunchtimes to coach our basketballers.

Daily 5 Reading

We have now learnt what is expected at all the Daily 5 Reading stations and group reading has started.  Here we are  doing the different activities.

Writing Recounts

We have been learning to write recounts in past tense, that have a lot of detail.  Geneva is very proud of her recount about being at Kylie's birthday.  We hope you enjoy it.

Kylie was having a  birthday party, I went to  visit her.   

It was fun at Kylie's birthday. I had so much fun playing on the bouncy castle.

Kylie shall we make your cake?  Then we ate Kylie’s cake all up

We went outside and played on the trampoline and then we asked her mum and dad to play at the park.

Collaborative Learning

It is great to see everyone collaborating, while working on their chrome books.  Here we are doing our topic work.  We have just learnt to paste pictures into documents.

Visit From Swarm

Swarm Dance Crew came to our hall today.  They did two hip hop dances.  Swarm Dance Crew are part of an artist collective that does singing, dancing and art.  It was amazing.

They are having a show on Saturday at 8pm at the Majestic Church on Moorhouse Ave.  They will also be running hip hop lessons at the High School.  They will start next Monday and details are at the school office.

Writing Time

At present we are learning to use our chrome books for writing. We have been writing a recount about seeing Elgregoe.

Here is Sky's recount for you to enjoy. 

Elgregoe

On friday Elgregoe came to Hornby Primary School.

I really liked the honesty chicken because whenever you tell the truth he turns green but when you tell a lie he turns red. He wasn't a real chicken   

It was awesome.

I also liked that he was a ventriloquist. He made Harvey  talk and Reggie talk. The Harvey  was so funny so was Reggie. Reggie was so funny.

He was copying Elgregoe with the words he said. He said that he was been bullied and said who to tell. Elgregoe said when you're bullied you have to not listen to them. Then he didn't listen to Elgregoe.   

The boy without a middle was so hilarious. It was sad that I couldn't do that trick because I was too small. But it was still fun.  

It was nice of the ventriloquist to show us one of his tricks. He put a bird in a box then disappear in the table. He did it two times.It was so amazing.

  

     

Go Noodle

Yesterday it was drizzling at fitness time so we spent some time using Go Noodle

Essential Spelling

This morning we completed the first 3 levels of the essential words spelling test. This will help with knowing which words we need to learn and it means we can be using the right levels on Spelling City.

Tally Charts

For maths at the moment we are doing some statistics work.  We are currently learning how to make a tally chart.  Our tally charts need to have a title, options, tally marks and totals. Today we were finding out how many pets different people have.

Class Treaty

We have been working on making a class treaty.  We came up with ideas to make our class a great place to be.  We then had to put our ideas on a class sheet depending on how important they were.

Elgregoe

On Friday we were lucky enough to have Elgregoe visit our school.  He talked about being a Hero. We show we are heroes by being Honest, showing Empathy, being Resilient and taking Opportunities.   He also talked about repeat.  During his show Kaley and Ethan went up as volunteers and earned a prize.
Elgregoe did an amazing trick when he put Travis in a box and made his stomach disappear.

Swimming

We have been enjoying using the swimming pool on fine days.  We have now been put into swimming groups and will begin lessons.

Working Spaces

We have been getting used to choosing good places to work so we can complete our work.  This is a hard skill to learn but we have been doing really well at this.