Friday 9th September 2011 Grade 1 and 2 Camp

Bush Ranger's Bay

Grade 1 and 2 Camp

On Thursday the one and two's went to Bush Ranger's Bay for a very long walk. On the walk we could see the beach. . There were lots and lots of stairs to climb, we counted around 130!!! we saw a kangaroo and Mr Trev named him Wayne. We saw about five altogether, one even had a joey in it's pouch. When we finally arrived at the beach we had our lunch, yum!!

Then we had a play on the beach. It was a long walk back to the bus, our legs needed a rest!!

We all ate a yummy dinner at school. We had sausages in bread or a hamburger and a little bit of the salad. For dessert we had ice-cream in a cone.

After dinner we played lots of fun games like Indian's and Wigwongs!!

After brushing our teeth we said good night everyone and headed off to our tents.

Our Antiques Expo :D

This term we are learning all about history and how things have changed. So we held an antique expo where we all brought in something very old that we don't find much anymore and presented it to some classes. Alot of us dressed up on the day, even the teachers joined in. I think we all looked fantastic!

Perry and Keeley look fantastic in their olden day clothes. ... Is holding what looks to be an old style doll.

Keeley not only looks fantastic in her old fashioned dress but is actually holding an old certificate saying you have completed your senior swimming and that you can do diving, be an instructor, do rescue work and do resuscitation.

Georgia has brought an old record you know the things before CD's and ipods. Its titled The Music of George Geshwin.

Our Mc Crae Homestead escursion :)

On the 29th July the grade 1 and 2's went to the Mc Crae Homestead to learn about their history and what their grandparents used to live like, and to see how things have changed. When they had finished the tour of the homestead they went and visited Mc Crae lighthouse and did many fun activities at the park.

This is Patrick he is learning how to wash clothes with a washboard just like they used to back in the day. When asked what he thought about it he said it was easy. :)

The grade 1 and 2's at the playground near the lighthouse in Mc Crae about to get ready for the many activities planned.

This is Amari's fabulous drawing of the Mc Crae lighthouse in the background. All the grade 1 and 2's drew a picture of the lighthouse and should all be very proud of ther fabulous work.

Our Animal Expo

On Monday, all of the grade 1/2s showed our projects to the rest of the school. In art, we made headbands to match our project. There were posters, dioramas, booklets and power point presentations. We set up our tables around the outside of our classroom. Jackson E, Lily and Heath sat out the front ready to show their power point presentation on the white board. Everyone stood with their project ready to talk to the grades when they came in. We were all very excited. The preps came in with their buddies first. Then it was the grade 3/4s and last the grade 6s. Mr Short and Mr Fisher also came in to look at our work/ Mr Fisher gave us fantastic stickers to go on our projects. Mr Short said that we did an AWESOME job! We had a fantastic and super dooper time at our Animal Expo!

L.E.A.P

L.E.A.P

As you are well aware, our great school aims to support our children in as many ways as possible. I am very fortunate to be part of that support team as an SSO.

As well as working in the classroom I run small literacy groups, under the watchful eye of Mrs Ross.

L.E.A.P (Literacy Enhancement Activity Program) is an activity based program designed to target different areas of Literacy.

The program is lots of fun and helps to build confidences in our kids to aid them in the classroom. Cheers Linda.

Kyeesha. "We are learning about rhyming and we play games."

Bonni. "I like playing syllable bingo and making rhymes."

Jordan. "We play memory and do writing on the whiteboard, it's fun.

Caitilie. "I like learning about blends and word families, I'm getting good at it all."

Jack. "I like doing everything...! "

Ryan. "I like it all, I like going."

Lachie. "We are learning about blends and word families."

Harry. "I like going a bit, we play games and learn about words".

Chris. "It's fun because I like learning, we are writing words in syllables.

Kaedon. "We get to use the whiteboard and play games".

Amahri. "I like syllable bingo, it's fun and cool. I like using the whiteboard."

Jordy. "It's fun learning about sounds in words".

Zac. "I like Leap sometimes".

Heath, Lily and Jarryd

Heath: Moths eat clothes.

Jarryd: Slaters eat rotting plants and some animals.

Lily: Ants get honey dew made by the caterpillar and it protects them from pests.

Zoe, Charlotte and Emily

Charlotte: As caterpillars they are cannibalistic and also nocturnal.

Zoe: The female eats the mate after mating.

Emily: Predators are cats, dogs, lawnmowers and cars.

Jamal, Jack and Jackson

Jamal: Spiders can suck up flies guts, heart and blood.

Jackson: Most centipedes eat insects.
Jack: A redback is highly venemous.

Minibeast Display

Liam, Rori and Ruby

Liam: Redbacks eat insects, crickets, small lizards and trapdoor spiders.

Rori: ladybugs can be red, yellow or orange with black dots and stripes, or black with no spots.

Ruby: Butterflies lay eggs before winter comes.

Sophie, Oliver and Lachlan

Sophie: the scientific name for a ladybird is cocconila seppunctata.

Oliver: Daddy long legs and white tails kill redback spiders.
Lachlan: Red backs hide under rocks, sheds and rubbish.

Summer, Dylan and Chelsea

Chelsea: Butterflies are found from from mountains, jungles, deserts, and in your homes.

Dylan: tarantulas when they lose their legs they eat them for protein

Summer: Ladybirds are called different names such as; ladybird, lady bug, lady beetles, and beetles.

Tom, Kyan and Caitilie

Kyan: Male redbacks do not have a stripe on their back.
Tom: there are 94 different types of huntsman.

Caitilie: Lady birds live all around the world.

Aleah, Chloe and Gage

Chloe: Slaters can live up to 2-4 years.

Aleah: Adult butterflies sip liquid. they cant chew but they can sip.

Jackson, Ben and Lauren

Jackson: Rhino beetles are the strongest bug in the world.

Lauren: The wasp gets the trapdoor spider in its burrow and stings it.

Ben: The huntsman spider can grow up to 15 centimeters.

Harry, Taylor and Zac

Harry, Taylor and Zac

Harry: Stick insects lay 205 billion eggs

Taylor: Butterflies eat rotten fruit, dung and nectar.

Zac: Some people eat grasshoppers.

Bella, Caeleigh and Isobel

Bella, Caeleigh and Isobel each created a mini beast poster. Bella created a poster on a Ladybird. An interesting fact i read on her poster was that lady birds usually eat plant lice. Caeleigh created a poster about the Praying Mantis. I found an interesting fact that said the larger group of these is usually called Praying Mantids. Isobel also did her poster on ladybirds, so i looked up a fact and found that the average life span of the ladybird is 3 years. Good job guys :)

Braeden, Jamie and Pippa

The mini beast projects are brilliant, and Braeden, Jamie and Pippa's projects are just as great. I asked each of them to give me one interesting fact about their mini beast and this is what they came up with.

Pippa's : Dragon fly's live near ponds and rivers.

Braeden: The huntsman can live for 100 years.

Jamie: The tarantula female lives for 30 years and the males lives for 20.

Thomas, Khem and Kyeesha

Thomas, Khem and Kyeesha did their projects on the scorpion, red back spider and the ladybug. Kyeesha's fact about the Redback is that it has 8 legs and a stripe of red on its back. Khem's fact about a Emperor scorpion is that it lives in the African tropical rainforest and is poisonous. Thomas's fact about his lady bug is that they can fly up to 1000m high.

Jasmine, Alfie and Cooper

Jasmine, Alfie and cooper have beeen working hard on their mini beast projects. I have asked each to give me one interesting fact about their bug. Jasmine did her project on Caterpillars and her fact is that caterpillars turn into butterflies and it takes more than 2 weeks. Alfie's fact about the Funnel web spider is that the female spider is bigger than the male. Cooper's fact about the Daddy Long legs is that it has 8 legs and that they are very skinny.

Jordan,Keeley and Cade

Jordan, Keeley and Cade have been hard at work creating incredible mini beast posters. As you can see from this photo they really stand out and look incredible. An interesting fact about Jordans mini beast, the taratula, is that they live on trees and eat the insectss that crawl around. Keeley did her project on the butterfly, and an interesting fact is that they get honey out of purple flowers and eat it for lunch. Cade's bug the red back spider interesting fact is the male spider eats it dad.

Amelia and Perry

Stick Insects and Blue Tarantulas are two bugs you probably dont know much about, unless you're Perri and Amelia, who have both been studying one of these bugs and have desinged a poster for us. Amelia did hers on the blue tartantula. I hadn't heard of a blue tarantula until today. Amelia's poster is brilliant and her tarantula moves is pretty scary. Perri did hers on the stick insect. Her poster looks awesome. Keep up the good work.

Emma,Bonnie and Jasmine

Emma, Bonnie and Jasmine have been hard at work creating their mini beast projects. Not only do they look great, but give heaps of information too. Emma's butterfly project is beautiful just like butterflies themselves, Bonnie's ladybug poster has a huge picture of a ladybug that is drawn brilliantly and looks just like a ladybug, and Jamine's millipede poster is a little cut out of the photo... Good job girls.

Max, Georgia and Obe

Max, Georgia and Obe have been working hard on their mini beast projects. Obe's Sydney Funnel web spider project is brilliant and tells me heaps about the spiders and where they live but its a little scary ;). Luckily Georgia's ladybird poster isn't as scary as Obe's but gives me the same amount of information. Max's Slater project is brilliant but it's about bugs, blegh :) but if you're a bug person then this poster is great. Good job Guys.

Jasmine's Caterpillar

The grade ones and twos have been working hard on their mini beast projects and they look great. Jasmine has done hers on caterpillars, but we have had blue tarantulas, ladybugs and even dragonflies. Good job grade 1 and 2 :)