Ms Courtney's Class

What a week!! This week we celebrated book week with mystery readers, a visiting author, door decorating and a book costume parade. Here are some of our highlights from the week. Monday 10,000 pieces of popcorn I liked seeing the author. I liked it because he was funny. - Leah I liked the assembly, it was fun. - Micah I favourite part of this week was when it was the author coming to the black box and showed us popcorn. I liked it because the author showed us 10,000 pieces of popcorn. - Seo Won Ms Kelly - Our mystery reader I liked the mystery reader because it was my mum! - Molly Tuesday Mr Simon - our mystery reader I liked it when Mr Simon came in because his book was funny. - Lyna I like Mr Simon because he had a very funny book. - Johan Finding poems for Poem in your Pocket day Visiting Author presentation I liked listening to the author because he was interesting. - Brian Don't let the pigeon eat all the popcorn ...

We continued to understand the different ways the Earth can move and change this week. We looked at the fast and slow changes to the Earth as well as the layers of the Earth and tectonic plates. We created poems on either volcanoes or tsunamis. Book Week Next week is Book Week. We started preparing today by adding our page to the collaborative book that started in EY1 and will finish in Grade 5. Here is a overview of what will be happening next week. Monday Mystery Reader Opening assembly D.E.A.R - Drop Everything And Read Tuesday Mystery Reader Visiting author workshop Poem in your pocket day D.E.A.R - Drop Everything And Rea d Wednesday Mystery Reader Door decorating judging D.E.A.R - Drop Everything And Read Thursday Mystery Reader D.E.A.R - Drop Everything And Read Candlelight Read Aloud - 6pm Sleepover - Begins after the Candle light Read Aloud Friday Closing Assembly Mystery Reader D.E.A.R - Drop Everything And Read Book Da...

Dear Parents,  We have started our How We Organize Ourselves unit. The Central Idea is: "Humans prepare and respond to changes in the Earth."  If either yourself or someone you know has any experience with working for organizations who do this type of work or you have personally experienced an Earthquake, Landslide, Volcano or Tsunami and would like to be a guest speaker in our class please let me know. Students love the opportunity to listen to guest speakers and can learn so much from them.  Provocation We started our new unit on Wednesday with a provocation. While the students were at Foreign Language or Mother Tongue lesson we messed up the classroom and their bags. There was paper, books, pencils and furniture everywhere. We recorded the students as they returned to class and wanted to see how their felt and what their response to the situation was. Once the classroom was cleaned up we talked about the emotions we felt and how we responded. A...

We completed our unit last Friday. The students have shown an amazing understanding of the conditions and requirements for plant growth, They have completed non-fiction books they will be sharing with the Kindergarten students next week. On Friday the students were fantastic in assembly. Here are a few photos of it. It has been great hearing about how the plants for homework have grown. Thanks Eric for bringing his plant to school last week. Last Wednesday we watched the Grade 10 children's theatre production. Each in the year Grade 10 students observed Grade 2 and 3 students and interviewed them about their favourite books, TV shows interests and what was important to them. With this information the Grade 10 students created a play for us. There was a slightly scary element to the play with the underlying message of friendship. Math Next week we will begin module 4 in Math. This will focus on Addition and Subtraction of numbers to 200 and worded number...