"Doing the Right Thing"

Today we had a visit from Constable Sue who is doing a fantastic programme at Fernridge School along with Constable Keely. It is called 'Doing the Right Thing'. Today we learnt all about Respect and what it means to us. We did a cool activity about who we respect and why. They will be up in our class room really soon for you to come and look at.

Constable Sue is explaining to us what to do with our special 'Respect' activity.

We are all listening to Constable Sue as she reads us a story about a boy and how he showed respect.

Swimming

Last week everyone in Room 1 had a fantastic time developing our swimming skills. Take a look at some of the children during their lessons. They have learnt so much! We can't wait until the swimming carnival on Friday.

The famous 'Noodle' race.

A very busy start to the race.

Flutter boards at the ready. 

We have progressed  to no flutter boards at the end of the lessons.

Kicking while holding on to the side of the pool.

Check out the great kicking legs.

WELCOME to 2015

Hi everyone,

This year Room 1 has started with 8 awesome students who are all fantastic learners.

This year our concept is 'CHANGE'  This term we are looking at changes in ourselves especially when we grow up. In Room 1 we all completed a great piece of learning called 'Maths About Me'. This helped us all to learn things about each other.

Then we all shared ideas about what you do or can expect to do when you are growing up.

We will be sharing lots more off our learning over the year.

Visiting Chinese Teacher

Today at Fernridge School we had a teacher from China visit us. Room 1 was very lucky and he came to us first thing this morning. We were taught how to say hello in Chinese and count to 10. Then we were shown some awesome magic tricks. What a fantastic start to the day. Thank you Jake.

Firewise Programme

In week 1 all of the Junior classes completed the Firewise programme. We learnt all about how to be safe around fires, what to do when there is a fire and how to make sure our family has a safe meeting place in case we ever have a fire.

The Firemen telling us that matches and lighters are 'tools' not 'toys'.

Sorting pictures about different types of fire.

The boys pretending to be asleep in their bedroom getting ready to practice getting out of a fire safely.

The girls are being the smoke in a fire with the boys learning how to safely get out of fire.

The firemen then read us a story about some of the dangers during a fire.

We all learnt heaps about fire safety and what we should do to keep safe. Thank you to the Firemen who showed us the fire engine too.

Room 1 Dress Rehearsal

Today we had our Dress Rehearsal for our school production on Tuesday and Wednesday night. It was great fun putting on our Highland dancing outfit and performing for the school.

Exploring Capacity

This week for Maths we are exploring Capacity. Today we had lots of different containers and poured water in them to see which one held the most water and which one held the least. We also experimented with how many little containers it would take to fill a big container. We had great fun with our Maths today.

Charlotte and Lucas comparing the amount of water in different size and shapes of bottles.

Joey, Grace, Phoenix, Theo and Kayla counting how many small containers it will take to fill one big container.

Lots of filling and counting by Kayla and Grace.

Max and Lily are working on how much is needed to fill 1/2 a bottle.

A tricky problem for Meila, Marco, Aaron and Indyanna! Which container holds the most? They discovered that they all hold the same.

Ryan and Ivy-Rose have put all of the containers in order from smallest to biggest.

Max ponders which container holds the most water as Lennox and  MacKay fill them up.

Great teamwork by Grace and Kayla as they see how much water they need to fill this bottle.

Indyanna and Marco working together to see how many small bottles it would take to fill this bigger one. It was 2!

Meila and Aaron have worked out it takes 10 little containers to fill the big one. Now they are going to try the medium sized container.

OH, NO!!!  As with all good Maths exploration we have made a bit of a mess and yellow water has gone everywhere!! But Charlotte, Lucas, Oskar and Ivy-Rose have filled each of theirbottles half way.