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We went on the bus to Ambury farm as part of our topic studies. Room 4 watched the cows being milked and the sheep being shorn. We fed the hens and patted the calves.
On Friday the 28th October Room 4 helped to host the school assembly with our buddy class Room 13 and Room 3. Our theme was Old MacDonalds farm. We wore the masks that we had made and sang some animal songs. It was such fun.
Every week on Friday we go to the library. Mrs Sutherland helps us to choose books.
We enjoy our time looking through the lovely selection of books at Sunnybrae School.
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It was Fancy Feet day on Friday. Students were encouraged to walk to school, and it was a big success. Later, some senior students visited the classes and chose the best three fancy feet from each class. Isobel chose Carlos, Zara and James from our class. They went to the hall to have their photo taken, and they got a sticker and a tattoo as a prize. Well done to everyone who made their feet fancy.
FANCY FEET on PhotoPeach
We made our own story based on Eric Carle's book, "The Grouchy Ladybug".
To celebrate the end of Book Week, we got dressed up as our favourite character and had a book character parade. Have a look at our photo's:
Our Book Week on PhotoPeach
Every time we read a book during book week, we filled in the details of the book in a fruit shape, and stuck the fruit shape to our fruit tree. At the end of the week, we all got a certificate for reading so many books during the week. Have a look at our photo's:
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Mrs. Naran and Mrs. Seath read a story to our class during "read around" this week. Here are a couple of photo's of Mrs. Seath reading her favourite story to our class:
Zara brought her favourite book in to school one day during Book Week, to share with the class. It was a fascinating book, because the animals moved when you moved the page back and forth.
Mrs. Morley brought some of her favourite books in from home, and she read a book to the class every day.
to write our names. It was a little tricky learning to write on the whiteboard with the interactive pen. Have a look at the end result:
for "yes" or click on the 
for "no". It is a great activity, because we get to check that we have done everything we need to do, before the 8.55AM bell. This is what it looks like:
The teachers set up the Wii Sports Games as a "choosing activity" at the end of the school day, and here is a video of a student being amazing at ten pin bowling:
In the last week of Term 1, we did a fun Easter Bunny craft activity with our Buddies. Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
We added pictures to our Define Map today. Our focus was "invertebrates". We learnt that we must put all the creatures that do not have a back bone, in the "Relevant" area of the Define Map, and that we must put all the creatures that do have a back bone, in the "Not Relevant" area of the Define Map.
Invertebrates Define Map on PhotoPeach
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We used three different painting techniques with this art work. First we splattered the black backing sheet with white paint. This formed the stars in the night sky. Next we painted our moths using different shades of brown. Next, we painted a light beam, by dry brushing yellow in the corner. Next we painted the black vein lines on our moths. Look at our beautiful moths flying towards the light beam:
We coloured in the four pictures to make a Life Cycle of a Butterfly spiral - the egg, the caterpillar, the chrysalis and the butterfly.
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We are learning about Forces now (Push + Pull), so we practiced blowing/pushing air through straws. We put the other end of our straws into a bowl of soapy, coloured water, and this is the result:
BUBBLE PRINTING on PhotoPeach
Mrs. Rennie-Younger made this mimio activity about butterflies and moths.
We had to move the pictures from the bottom to the correct box.
We had to think very carefully, because butterflies and moths are very similar.
Mimio Activity: Butterfly vs Moth on PhotoPeach
