Calendar Competition prizewinners.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!!