18/06/13 What's Going On in BD Class?

This morning Mr D did the Flying Tea Bag experiment with the rest of the Year 1 classes. We were very good at not giving away what would happen. In our writing we tried to focus on using some interesting describing words.

We looked at two  more of our Letterland Blends today. 

We set a new 2 Dice record today of 1 minute 58 seconds. We are getting fater at remembering what two dice add up to.

17/06/13 What's Going On In BD Class?

Today we only ended up with 15 children in the class. But we still did some great learning. This week we are looking at all the blends with "r" in it. Today we looked at "br" and "cr."

This afternoon we did another really awesome experiment. This time Mr D lit a tea bag on fire. We made some predictions about what would happen. 

Then we observed what happened. Finally we thought about why the tea bag did what it did. 

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Week 6 in BD Class

Last week was another very busy week. We started to look at all of the "l" blends. On Monday we looked at "bl" and "cl". Over the rest of the week we looked at "fl", "gl", "pl" and "sl."

On Tuesday we went out and did some great kite flying to celebrate Matariki. The jellyfish kites looked amazing. We did some great writing again.

On Tuesday afternoon we did a really cool experiment for science. We got a table, turned it upside down and put it on some balloons. Check out how many people we managed to get on the balloon!

We found out that air was really, really strong. If the balloon didn't pop, we would have put more people on the table. We found out that there were lots of different things that use air to keep us off the ground or on top of the water.

10/06/13 What's Going on in BD Class?

This morning we equaled our best two dice time. Mr D reckons we will beat it tomorrow. We did some great writing today. We are getting so much better at putting in our full stops at the end of ideas.

We have 5 more people who have achieved their next  "Nights Reading" stickers. Well done guys.

This week we will be looking at all the blends that have "l" in them. Today we looked at "bl" and "cl."

Week 5 in BD Class

It has been a very busy week in BD Class. We have done some great writing this week. Mr D was really impressed with the way the class was thinking about where to put full stops in their writing.

For Letterland, we looked at these double letters. We cam up with lots of words that have those letters in them.

At the last couple of assemblies we have had two of our class get School Achievement awards. Well done Harrison and Rebecca.

We have been doing some interesting science experiments about air. Check out some of our learning.