Mobile-Phones

Today we looked at Kennings. We learn't that we need to use figurative language to describe something without saying what the something is.
In groups we brainstormed our ideas to share with the class. As a class we wrote our own kenning on mobile-phones.

'Mobile-phones'

Social-connector

Text-sender

Portable-communicator

Picture-taker

Movie-maker

Game-player

Information-bringer

Ringtone-creator

We look forward to sharing more with you. Bye for now.

From Six-Sational & Miss A

Shared Writing

In the Year 6 classroom we have been researching information on Japan.
We have been working in groups to do shared report writing on Japan. We have learnt the importance of using an interesting heading, using sub-heading and in particular we have been focussing on writing great topic sentences and detailed paragraphs. 
We have been sharing our writing with the other groups and finding ways to improve our writing. We think we are getting better every day. 

Last Friday we made sushi. We followed a recipe that we had to read to put in the correct order before following the recipe. We made sushi that had tuna, carrot and cucumber in it. For some of us it was our first time trying sushi. It was delicious. We loved cooking and can't wait to make something else again soon. The best part was eating it and checking to see how good we can cook!

Update - By Zoe

Hi I am Zoe and this is what has been happening.

In the first few weeks of Term 3 we have been going very well and we have started to learn about the Olympics and the world. Which is a great thing that we are learning about since the 2012 Olympics are on and the world is such an interesting place.

Our assembly was on at school in the second week of Term 3. For the assembly our class was doing the first ever Olympsix.  For the assembly I was the music controller and the prayer person. The assembly was great. It was one of the best assemblys I have ever been in. What we did was a board game that was about the Olympics. We sang two songs, I believe and Eye of the tiger.

While we prepared for our assembly we were visited by some very talented people who came to our town to teach us some drama and acting skills. There were 3 from New York and a lady from Sydney. The people from New York names are Arianna, David and Marree and the lady from Sydney’s name was Carla. The incursion was awesome while we played a game named 'WHOOSH' and 'STATUES'. The games were fun, but we were not finished yet. We were put into groups of 4 and then we made a scene about bullying and we presented it to the class.

We are still learning about the Olympics and all of the contestants and the sports. So now you can see that we are all working hard and we are all trying our best at what comes and what comes and what goes and I hope you can see how lucky we are here in our school and how well Miss A teaches.

Yours Truly

ZOe

Olympic Village

Millions of dollars have been spent to build an Olympic Village in London, where athletes and officials will live during the Olympic Games.
Once the Olympics and Paralympics are over, the Olympic Village will be used for a different purpose.
Here are some of the ideas we came up with....

An entertainment centre - Alisha
A training facility - Shaela
A new suburb of London for people to live - Sabian
A hotel and sporting centre - Conor
A museum of Olympic History - Zac
A heated waterpark - Ryan
A sporting training centre - Emma
A kids sporting camp - Tesshara
A boarding school - Isobel
An elderly home - Zoe
An entertainment centre and hotel - Lauren
A wax museum of sporting champions - Harry
Accomodation for public - Christine
A disabled village - Amber-Rose


What are your ideas? We would love to hear them!!

From Six-Sational & Miss A

Assembly

It has been such a busy start to Term 3 after a fun and safe holiday.

This week we have been working hard to put together our assembly that is happening this Friday.

We have been working in small teams to put different parts of the assembly together.
Some of us sat down and put our ideas together for a script. Others designed and created props. Another group designed and created the display for the board behind us while we are on stage. A few of us worked together on deciding what people need to wear on the day. A bigger group of us worked on researching information to put into the script. Using the laptops and Ipads in our classroom has been especially handy! 

It has been very busy, but lots of learning has been happening!
It has been fun putting our ideas together and working cooperatively in different groups to what we hope will be a fun and exciting assembly!

FISHING TRIP!

Last Thursday we were fortunate enough to go on a fishing excursion.

We began our excursion by taking the bus down to our local beach, which is about a 20 minute bus ride.
When we arrived we had two men introduce themselves and talk to us about sun safety and fishing safety.

We then spent a couple of hours fishing. Some of us caught some fish and one of us even caught an octopus. That was very exciting! Some of us only managed to catch seaweed, but we all had such a fun time having a go!

At the end of the clinic we had a quiz about the safety messages from earlier in the morning and some of us won some cool prizes.

Here are some photos of us enjoying our day. We would love to go again next year!

From Six-Sational & Miss A

A busy start to Term 2

In Maths last week were busy learning about different types of lines and angles. We were also able to use our protractors to measure different angles.


Did you know....
- Right angles are 90 degrees (Zac)
- An angle between 0 degrees and 90 degrees is called an acute angle (Conor)
- An angle between 90 degrees and 180 degrees is called an obtuse angle (Christine)
- A straight angle is exactly 180 degrees (Jock)
- A reflex angle is between 180 degrees and 360 degrees (Chelsey)
- There are 360 degrees in a circle, which is called a revolution (Alisha)


From Six-Sational and Miss A