Read to Someone

Today we are learning to do another party of the Daily Five: Read to Someone.

We can choose a book from our group box and choose a partner to read to.

When our partner is reading, we need to listen to them. We can help them to work out tricky words.

We need to remember to sit EEKK - Elbow to Elbow, Knee to Knee. This is important because it means we can hear our partner read quietly to us, and the classroom doesn't become too noisy.

We are responsible learners!

PB4L: Being Responsible

We are all beginning to take more responsibility for our learning.

When we Read to Ourselves, we make sure not to distract others from their learning.

Look how well we can read independently.

Swimming Carnival

This week Room 11 joined four other classes and participated in our school swimming carnival.

Four swimmers took part in the relay and all swimmers swam through hoops, used flutter boards and had a fabulous time.

Room 11 showed how well they could be respectful, responsible and the best they could be (our school PB4L values).

Wonderful Writers

This week we watched a short video clip about a bird called Whistleless.

He had no whistle so he set off on an adventure to find a whistle.

We retold the story for writing. Here are two examples that we thought were so good, that they took their wiring and read it to the principal. Well done Kai and Wade!

Colour Detectives

Today we wanted to find out what was inside our felt pens. We did a science experiment called Chromatography to find out.

First Mrs Leung drew lines on the paper towels with different coloured felt pens.

We decided to test blue, brown, green, black and red felt pens.

In small groups, we made predictions (hypotheses) about what we thought would happen to each colour.

We dipped each paper towel into a bowl of water so that the felt line was wet.

 

We lay the paper towels on some newspaper to dry, while we waited to see if anything would happen.

We also tried the same experiment with coffee filters. 

Would the results be the same?

We saw that some of the colours were made up of other colours.

We noticed that the red coloured felt had not separated into other colours.

Paige told us this was because red was a primary colour and you could not mix other colours to make red.

Look at the brown coffee filter! Brown is made up of a lot of different colours!