Last Swimming lesson wearing life jackets 2016

                          Learning to huddle to keep warm

            Hold life jacket correctly, step out into the deep end!

Swimming going well. What are Tessellations?

Swimming     
at Hilton Brown 

Come in and ask us about Tessellations

Harold and Miss Rowe leave, great instruction writing using ANZAC biscuit baking.

 Procedural writing using baking ANZAC biscuit recipe

                         Good-bye Miss Rowe and Harold

Harold visits & Indian Dance on Discovery Day

Harold from Life Education visited us, we learnt the difference between empathy and sympathy.
Nine of us from Room 19 performed an Indian dance on stage on Discovery day.  
                                       Did you see us?

Term 4 begins with the chicken dance and discovering electricity

Money Maths Week

                           Do you recognise anyone here? 
                      We are all dressed up ready to parade

Science "hands on" experiments: Air pressure

Exploratorium class trip

Our trip to the Exploratorium in Henderson was awesome. 
There was so much to explore, investigate, wonder about and have fun doing.

Authors and Science

Ethan and Kate are our authors. Together they wrote and illustrated a story about a science experiment.
Through the week we explored many experiments and made some discoveries about sodium bicarbonate, (baking soda).

Science begins in Room 19

What's science all about? We were introduced this week... what a discovery!

The WINNER comes from Room 19

Cassandra from Room 19 was the overall winner of the year 3 & 4 Poetry recital for 2016. Congratulations Cassandra.

St John's member, Mac, showed us how to call the emergency
number and how to stop the flow of blood from a deep cut.

We had some time and fun in the hall playing basketball Octopus.

Week 7 in Room 19

 Using a Solo thinking map to help us focus on adjectives and similes to enrich our writing.

 Using blocks and a hop scotch mat to help us memorise our homethink spelling patterns

 Weighing "real life" parcels on electronic scales to find how much they would cost to send by post.

 How much rice measures/weighs the same as your packet of cereal in the morning?

 Chanel from the "Breakers" basketball team shared an understanding of "values" with us.

We learnt some basketball skills, like blocking and dribbling with the ball, through games on the court.

Postponed Digital Information Evening

Busy, Busy, Busy Week 5

Tree Adventures day trip, cross country run, wheels day all in a week's learning for children and their teacher in room 19! We needed courage, bravery, persistence to push through our fears 
to finish and enjoy our week. 

Tree Adventures Courage Trip

What a wonderful adventure-filled day in Wood hill forest, climbing rope ladders and stepping on wire and wooden planks, to sliding down flying fox cables all high up in the air! 
Many of us challenged to our limits, and by the end of the day thrilled with our achievements.

Soccer Try out

We were first to try the soccer equipment.

It was fun and several of us want to have some more turns on Thursday after school.

Courage brain storm

We'd love to hear what you think.If you agree with an answer that's already showing, please type it in again and it will grow bigger. This will show us more clearly the key concepts about courage as valued by our community.

Busy week WEEK ten

Little Red Riding Hood joined us, 
we waited until it was our turn to parade our costumes.
We built a neuron out of pipe cleaners to help us understand how messages are passed on, in our brain. 

Book week characters

Can you guess which book we came from?

Week 10 in Room 19

The week began with us celebrating with six of our class mates who completed in the weetbix triathlon on Sunday at Big Manly beach.
In an art lesson, Miss Nisbet, taught us how to create a mosaic koru. Each fond represents a person in our family. Mr Cowie came in and told us about how to be a good digital citizen.
We finished colouring in the parts of our brains where our senses are understood. 

Brain Immersion

Our immersion into the brain took the morning.
We had eight activities/ stations to complete.
"It was fun and interesting". I liked the pig's brain station the best because I got to touch a real pig's brain". (quote from thank-you letter written to Yohanes the butcher who gave us the brain).
We wrote down our wonderings and discoveries.

Marble Jar Full

We voted to go Lady Phoenix Park when our marble jar was full.
We filled it ! 
So on Wednesday afternoon off we went to explore this park.
For some of us, for the first time. Here we are so happy.

Learning about Digital citizenship & statistics

This week, we have been learning about digital citizenship with Mr Cowie. There are many doors we can open on the internet. We need to be careful which door we open.
The other photos show us as investigators, gathering data from our class mates to graph information from questions we posed.

What's been happening in Room 19 this week