Crazy Hair Day

Today our whole school had 'Crazy Hair Styles'! We bought a gold coin donation because we were raising money to help children in Sudan. Our money will assist those children in orphanages and school in Sudan. We raised $300 - well done!

Doubles

In Maths today we had fun finding out about the concept of doubles. We discovered that doubles are two of the same thing or two of the same number.

Wild Action Zoo

Today Chris from Wild Action Zoo came to our school and introduced some Australian Animals to us. Simba the Dingo was our favourite Australian Animal. What is your favourite Australian Animal? Wild Action Zoo on PhotoPeach

Champions Read - Book Week

This week we came to school dressed as champions in stories. We made a voicethread about our champions. Do you have a champion in literature?

Learning From Experts

Last week we had the chance to use our skills to teach our peers. We discovered that everyone in Prep is an expert at something. Some of us are great at footy, running and soccer while others are fantastic at gardening, dancing, playing board games, colouring in and making things with wool. We enjoyed sharing our skills but most of all we loved learning new things from our Prep friends.

And the winner is...

We took a poll today to find out which of the 2012 Book Week finalists was our favourite book. We have really enjoyed reading the books this week. Liam said, "We need to vote." We each voted once for our favourite book. It was a difficult choice because they were all so great. 'The Runaway Hug' by Nick Bland was the most popular book in Prep D, followed by 'Rudie Nudie', 'The Last Viking' and 'No Bears'. After we made our picture graph we visited Prep K to look at their graph. 'Rudie Nudie' was the most popular book in Prep K.

Just a minute

Today we discovered what we could achieve in a minute. We counted how many letters we could write in a minute, how many beads we could thread and how many blocks we could build in a tower. We also found out that it is very tiring to do star jumps for one minute! What can you do in one minute?

Book Week

One of our favourite books from Book Week is 'A Bus Called Heaven' by Bob Graham. Over the last couple of days we have been making our own buses. We have had so much fun making them. We hope that you like them.

Creating 3D Houses

In Maths on Friday we looked at different houses on the interactive whiteboard and discussed the shapes in these houses. We then had a go at making our own houses using different materials.

Finding the Difference

Today we discovered what 'difference' means in Maths when we used unifix blocks. We found out that you can find the diffrence by subtracting one number from another number and the answer is the difference.

Mini Olympics at St. Lukes

Today we had our Mini Olympics.
We had great fun going around to 9 different activities in our collaborative learning groups.
We loved doing the high jump and jumping the hurdles!
Our Olympics started and finished with a torch relay - it was amazing to see the seniors run around the running track with their torches.
At the completion of our activities we were all awarded a gold medal because we are all winners!
Thank you Mr Crowe and the Sports Captains for organising such a fun day!

And the winner is ...

Yesterday we went to a performance based on some of the books from this year's Book Week.The musical was about discovering what you are good at and realising that we all have different talents. The performers final message to us was that even if we are not good readers we can all still enjoy books. Next week we are going to dress up as 'Champions' to celebrate Book Week.
Which champion would you dress up as?

Cubes

Mrs David gave us the challenge to create a cube with 6 cardboard squares and sticky tape. We worked with a partner and successfully made our cubes! We discovered that a cube has 6 faces, 8 corners and 12 edges. We also discovered the difference between 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional shapes. What 3 dimensional shapes do you know?

Learning from Experts

Our class was lucky to have a guest speaker in our room today. We have been finding out about healthy eating and today we found out about how exercise helps us to stay healthy.Louisa explained that we don't have to play sports to get exercise but we can just make sure that we are active. She told us that exercise helps us to be strong, active and happy!
We had a wonderful time learning how to do different resistance exercises and our favourite exercise was the 'commando crawl'.
When we were doing the exercises Louisa was asking us which parts of our body hurt and she explained that that part of our body was getting stronger through the exercise we were doing.
Louisa has left us with a challenge to come up with our own exercises and she is going to come back to find out what we have created.
How do you keep your body fit and strong?

W is for Witches

This week we are finding out about the 'w' sound. We hope that you enjoy watching our witches. We had a great time making them! W is for Witch on PhotoPeach

Can you draw a clock?

Today we had to draw what we thought a clock looked like. This was used as a pre-assessment so now we can add to what we already know about clocks. Do you know how to draw a clock? Can you draw a clock? on PhotoPeach

Learning From Others

Today we worked with our 'Buddies' to get our activities ready for next week. We have all decided on a skill that we think that we are experts at. Next week we would like to teach others our special skills. Some of our skills are - soccer, football, playing board games, ballet, gardening and running. Our 'Buddies' helped us to work out how we would teach this skill and become the experts. Thank you 'Buddies'. We can't wait to show you how we go!

Our Nesting Boxes!

Last term our Inquiry Action was to make and present possum boxes to a local wildlife shelter. We made two nesting boxes and gave them to Adriana Simmonds to use at her wildlife shelter. On the weekend she emailed us photos of the possums using our boxes. The possums look so cute and we were very excited that they could actually use our boxes! We made something to help the animals. Have you ever made anything to help someone else? Our Nesting Boxes! on PhotoPeach

PJ Day

On Friday we celebrated PJ Day. We all wore our PJs to school and brought along our favourite soft toy. We talked about how lucky we are to have a warm house to sleep in each night. St Luke's raised $280 to help families who are not as lucky as us.

Go Aussies!

Who Am I?

Today we had heaps of fun writing our own 'Who Am I's?' Here are some of them.

Our Olympic Torches

We made our own Olympic torches yesterday. We made them from our own handprints, cellophane and cover paper. We are very proud of our torches! Have you made your own torches to celebrate the Olympic Games? We would love to hear about how you made them. Our Olympic Torches on PhotoPeach