Katie's Fotobabble

Katie has written a really long story today. If you listen carefully she will read it to you. We recorded this on Fotobabble on the iPad today. Watch this space for our other great authors reading their work.

Max's Great Reading

We were learning how to use the camera on the ipads and decided to take a video of our reading. We learned to keep the iPad steady by resting it on the table or our knees. We learned that we have to speak clearly when we read and that we have to be quiet when someone else is recording! And just listen to our great reading.

Katie's First Reading Movie

Boat Day

Recently Room 8 and Room 4 celebrated the end of a wonderful swimming season with a day where the children could bring bath toys, flippers, life jackets, floating aids and boats. As you can see from these photos we all had a lot of fun, with a serious message of water safety as well.

Boat Day on PhotoPeach

Our First iPad Movies

The children in Room 8 are learning to use the movie camera on the iPads. We worked in pairs and one child read their favourite book while the other one recorded them using the iPad. We had to think about lots of things, like keeping the iPad still, and not chopping off the book.

  

Aren't we great readers?

Beach Stories

Look at the great stories we wrote about the beach today.
Some of us are learning to write our name, and some of us can copy words to write a story. Some of us can write some good words by ourselves and we are trying to write the sounds we hear in new words.
We have some really good artists in our class.

More Beach Photos

We made faboulous sandcastles when we went to the beach. Georgie, Piper and William worked very hard. When we went for our swim the waves came right up and washed our sandcastles away.

Our Day At The Beach.

Today was the best day ever. 

We went to the beach to learn about safety in the water and being sun smart. The lifeguards taught us for the day.

Rule number 1 is "Always swim between the flags".

Rule number 2 is "If you get into trouble put your hand up".

We learnt to Slip, Slop, Slap and Wrap to keep safe in the sun.

 Ben dressed like a lifeguard and Max had to pretend he needed help. Ben saved him with a rescue tube.

 Ben used binoculars to search the sea for trouble.

Life guards use surf skis to rescue people. The also have races to see who is the fastest.

We had lots of fun in the water. There were lots of waves to jump over and some of us even dived under the waves. The water tasted salty.

Some of us had never been to the beach before. We were A+ Adventurous by trying new things even though the waves looked very big at first.
It was a great day. We will be tired at school tomorrow!!!

The Dental Van

This week the dental nurses arrived in a huge van. It had a bed in it and a kitchen, and an office desk. Some of our class were really disappointed that they didn't get to look inside, so here is a picture of Poppy wearing sunglasses and lying down on the bed. Doesn't she look COOL!

And later in the day Poppy's wobbly tooth fell out. She went to show the dental nurses the big hole. They were VERY surprised!

Pet Day

Today was Pet Day. We all brought our pet or a toy animal to school. There were lamb drinking races, dressed up dogs, and pony rides. We saw all kinds of animals including fish, water snails, turtles, guinea pigs, mice, reptiles, cats, ducklings, hens, goats, calves, lambs, ponies, rabbits and dogs. It was a wonderful day.