27/09/12 What's Going On?

We have had a great day today with lots of fun things to do. Some of the reading groups have been practising reading plays. They have been focusing on using lots of expression to make their characters sound interesting. This play is called "Treasure Hunt"by Joy Cowley.

Mr D finished off publishing our "I Spy" stories this morning. You can check out the full version at this link: http://snack.to/fuma69kx

See how many things you can find.

26/09/12 What's Going On?

What a crazy day today. The day had only just started when we had our "Shake Out" practise. Everyone had to duck under a table and hold onto the leg, or get into the "turtle" position or get under a doorway like Mr D.

After that excitement Mrs Berney took us for maths, writing and reading. It is so great to see how well everyone is doing with their reading!

This afternoon we started to publish our "I Spy" stories. They are going to look amazing.

Here is some publishing from a while back. We had a go at writing some explanations with illustrations done with KidPix.

25/09/12 What's Going On?

What a busy day. We kicked off with maths then got stuck into our reading. We learnt about another two sounds that the letter "a" makes. There were heaps of words!

This afternoon we had a go at making our own "I Spy" pages. Over the rest of the week we will write our riddles so people can find things on the pages. See what you can spot.

A big thank you to Kaleb's mum who spent the day with us helping out the Taniwha wearable arts group. Thank you so much Nicki!

18/09/12 What's Going On

We had another HUGE wearable arts day today. Our costumes are beginning to take shape. Mr D has been VERY impressed with the way that people have been cooperating and following instructions. William's mum and Piper's mum came into help us today. Here is our big wearable arts checklist. We are getting there!

We now have some reading double centurions. Well done to Piper and Kaleb for reaching 200 nights!

17/09/12 What's Going On?

Today was full on! We got stuck into our wearable arts costumes. We were so grateful to have Sophie's mum, Piper's mum and Sam's mum come and help us today. We will post up some pictures tomorrow, but we don't want to give too much away!

This morning we did some amazing maths. The "Circles" group were doing some multiplication using "Flip Flies." Mr D said this was stuff they do in Year 3, 4, 5 and 6. Wow!

12/09/12 What's Going On?

It was another really busy day in BD Class. We did dome more amazing multiplication work in maths. We set class records for Around the World in our 2s, 5s and 10s.

For writing we finished off our Harry narratives. We looked at the second half of he story. We are learning that as an author, we need to describe the action because people can't see it.

We did some more work on our pieces of wearable art. All of the groups have got started now. They're going to look amazing.

Check out our fantastic football skills from our Ole Soccer session yesterday.

Remember that tonight is the Discovery School Art Exhibition. The hall looks incredible with all these wonderful pieces of art. Make sure your family comes to check it out.

11/09/12 What's Going On?

We kicked the day off with maths. We are now learning about multiplication. We had a go at skip-counting to work out twos, fives and tens.

For writing we continued with our "Harry Head in the Clouds" narrative. We turned a cartoon into a narrative.

After morning tea we did our final planning for our pieces of wearable arts. We are now ready to start creating and working on our costumes. Mr D thinks our classroom is going to become a bomb site.

Tomorrow night is the Discovery School Art Exhibition. We are all very proud of our pieces of art. We hope that all our parents and caregivers purchase our great coffee cups. Here is a sneak preview.

Today we celebrated another bunch of children who have achieved their next round of reading stickers. Well done everyone!

10/09/12 What's Going On?

We have been doing so much over the past few weeks, so here is a very quick run down of all the things we have been doing.

We have been getting stuck into our wearable arts for the upcoming wearable arts show. We have been working in our category groups and designing our pieces of wearbale art.

You can check out a teaser for the show below.

2012 Discovery School WoW Teaser 3 from BD Class on Vimeo.

Mr D is going to try really hard to make sure that the blog is updates much more regularly than it has been over the past three weeks.

We have also been learning some really cool songs. Here is our current favourite.