Ms. Cunningham's, First Class, Room 16

Spring

2011-03-15T05:41:00.000-07:00

We have been learning all about spring. We now know that beautiful flowers grow in spring, birds return from hot countries, the days get longer and baby animals are born. The snowdrop is the first flower of spring. We decided to paint this beautiful spring background and then painted chicks, flowers, rabbits and lambs for our spring scene. We are very proud of our spring picture.

Learning About Different Countries

2011-03-15T03:41:00.000-07:00

We learned all about Australia and China. We found out what life is like for everyone living in these countries. When we are going to school, children in Australia are in bed. It takes 24 hours to get to Australia. We wrote facts about Australia and painted some Australian animals. This year is the year of the rabbit in China. Chinese New Year was in February. We learned that the Great Wall of China is the only thing that can be seen from outer space. Chinese people love to eat rice and drink tea. We made lovely Chinese Dragons for the Chinese New Year and looked at some Chinese writing.

Calendar Competition prizewinners.

2011-02-03T15:15:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to Lucia and Chloe who were presented with their prizes by the Mayor at City hall Their pictures are featured in this years Anti-Litter calendar, We had a lovely time at City hall.

Calendar Comprtition prizewinners at City hall.

2011-02-03T15:06:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to Chloe and Lucia. They were presented with their prizes by the Mayor . Their winning pictures are featured in this years Anti- litter Calendar. We had a lovely time at City Hall.

The Sound Collector

2011-01-25T04:22:00.000-08:00

We learned the poem The Sound Collector by Rodger Mc Gough when we came to school after our Christmas holidays. Then we wrote our own versions of the poem. Here are some of verses we made up:
The purring of the kitten.                        The roaring of the lion,
The roaring of the lion.                           The hissing of the snake.
The croaking of the frog.                        The barking of the dog.
The barking of the dog.                          The squeaking of the
The neighing of the horse.                     mouse.
The snapping of the crocodile.              The purring of the cat.
The squeaking of the mice.                   The munching of the giraffe.
The Hissing of the snake.                      The stumping of the rhino.
By Laura                                                  By Daniela

The squeaking of a mouse                    The purring of the cat.
The barking of the dog.                          The barking of the dog.
The screaming of a monkey.                  The hissing of a snake.
The roaring of a cheetah.                        The roaring of a lion.
The hissing of a snake.                           The croaking of a frog.
The tweeting of a bird.                             The howling crocodile.
The neighing of horse.                             By Martin
The creaking of the spider.
By Jacob

Science Week

2010-11-22T13:05:00.000-08:00

Our class carried aout lots of experiments during science week. We made rainbow spinners so that we could see two primary colours make a new colour. We discovered that the rainbow spinners work better with a cocktail stick than a pencil. We also used some paint to make new colours.

We used diet coke and mentos to make a geyser. When we put the mentos into the diet coke it erupted. We had to do this experiment outside so that we would not make a big mess inside.

During science week we also made playdough. We made blue and pink playdough. Here is what we did:
1. Mix a tablespooon of salt, a few drops of food colouring and some water in a cup.
2. Put flour and a tablespoon of cooking oil in a bowl and mix them together.
3. Add the food colouring mixture to the flour and mix them all together until it looks like playdough.

The Wise Old Owl

2010-10-05T13:19:00.000-07:00

We learned the poem The Wise Old Owl and decided to draw and paint some owls. These are our wonderful drawings and paitings. This is the poem that we learned:

A wise old owl lived in an oak

The more he saw the less he spoke

The less he spoke the more he heard.

Why can't we all be like that wise old bird?

Back to School

2010-10-05T13:07:00.000-07:00

Hello and welcome to our class. We are all in second class now and have been very busy since we came back to school in September. There are 23 children in our class. There are 12 boys and 11 girls. We have five groups in our class. We came up with the names for our groups all by ourselves. The names we decided on were Bouncing Bunnies, Lava Lions, Clever Cheetah's, Water Whales and King Kongs. Each week we collect paper clips. Whichever group has the most paper clips at the end of each week gets one night of homework. Here are the pictures we use for our groups:

Science Week

2008-12-04T07:18:00.000-08:00

As part of Science Week, we did lots of experiments in our classroom. We made a volacno using bread soda and vinegar. We caused an explosion by putting mentos into diet coke. We made a balloon blow up by putting it over a bottle and then placing the bottle in hot water. We also made a balloon blow up by putting breadsoda, lemon juice and vinegar into a bottle and then placing the balloon over the bottle!! We had lots of fun....check out our pictures!!

Our Witches Walk

2008-11-12T12:06:00.000-08:00

On Friday October 24th 2008, we had our Witches Walk!! We all dressed up coming into school and went around Renmore on our walk! We raised lots of money for our school and all our costumes were really good! Here are some of our pictures:

2D Shapes

2008-11-12T11:49:00.000-08:00

Before Hallowe'en we learned all about 2d shapes!! We now know how many sides and corners 2d shapes have. We had lots of fun with the 2d shapes by making pictures and by using the geoboards. Have a look at what we did:

Balancing Ourselves

2008-10-16T09:12:00.001-07:00

As part of our science lesson on our body parts we tested our balancing skills. The first experiment we tried was to stand with our backs, legs and knees to the wall. Our teacher told us to try and pick up a counter without bending our knees or moving away from the wall. We discovered that we would fall over trying to do this.

The next experiment we tried was also very difficult. We had to keep our shoulders and back against the wall and try lift our leg. We all found it hard to do but tried our best.

Our Teeth

2008-10-16T08:53:00.001-07:00

We learned how important it is to look after our teeth. From now on we all promise to brush our teeth everyday and eat and drink foods that will keep our teeth strong and healthy. In our science experiment we put one egg into water and another egg into coke. We left them overnight and came back the next day to find a big surprise. The egg in the water stayed clean and the egg in the coke had turned brown. When we brushed the brown egg it became cleaner but still was not as nice as the egg in water. This is why we should drink water instead of fizzy drinks.

Our Class

2008-10-01T10:10:00.000-07:00

This is the blue group.

Welcome to room 11. We are all in first class. There are 11 boys and 8 girls in our class. We have five groups in our class. Here are pictures of our groups:

This is the orange group.

This is the red group.

This is the yellow group.

This is the green group.