Owl Babies is a winner!

Georgia K was very excited that her Dad saw an owl recently. Running with this interest in owls, we used two books to explore the structure of narratives. 'Owl Babies' by Martin Waddell is the perfect book to use because of its simple but touching storyline. There are also several lesson plans available on the internet (see TES Connect) as well as a great reading on YouTube.

'Billywise', by Judith Nicholl, is a magical book about a young owl's glorious first flight. The vocabulary in Billywise is so powerful and lyrical, we were inspired to write a diamante-like poem on owls too.

Poems:

Dylan

Bella

Nellie

Owls

swoop, dive

down, hoot, stare

screech, drink, eat, nocturnal

fluffy, eyes glow

glide, strong

Liam

And here's a link to this wonderful Owl Maths:

Owl Maths

Workers of the Week

Under 8's Day

With blue passports tied around their necks, our under 8s headed off to collect stickers for completing numerous activities. Thanks to Kylie for photos from Hoola Hoops, Construction Play, Sand Castles, Obstacle Course, Dancing and Painting.

Easter Bonnet Parade

More amazing photos from Roxanne!

Junior School looked spectacular as they paraded their hats to parents, family and friends. The hats were adorned with Easter eggs, chickens, glitter and feathers.

We had a lovely Easter church service at St Columbas. Nellie, Ashley and Yeju lead us in a beautiful prayer. Well done girls!

Perfect Pooches

My Favourite Book

Look at the wonderful variety of books that came in for Show and Tell.
For a whole day, I wasn't the oldest 'object' in the classroom... Can you work out which book I'm referring to?

A new favourite book

Georgia K brought in this fabulously funny book:

We loved this page:

We decided to write a suitable menu for the occasion.

Bella

Lauren

Other revolting ideas were:

Nellie-worm jelly

Haley- crab mudcake with wild green chocolate berries

Ashley- live frog and fly salad

Georgia K- moth burgers and cat fur soup

Patrick- snake pudding and snail stew

Going to Year 2 by...

Nellie

Under questions and worries, Nellie has written, "Are you going to be mean soon?"


The Year 2s have been filling in this form. It took us a long time. At the end of the year we are going to fill in the identical form except 'Year 2' will be replaced with 'Year 3'. We will then be able to see how our writing skills have developed over the year. We anticipate that the form will take a lot less time to complete!

Look at what a good looking bunch of children you have:

Nellie

Dylan

Sean

Jordan

Jake

Luke

Georgia S

Haley

Joel

Liam

Yeju

William

Amber

Mackenzie

What if tadpoles could talk?

We used de Bono's hats to ponder the question 'What if our tadpoles could talk?'

http://pics4learning.com/

Liam said they would say," Mrs Wilson, Liam is working!"

Nellie thought if tadpoles could talk we could then make friends with them.

Jake wondered if they would help us with our work.

Bella thought they would tell us if we were making a poor choice.

Georgia S said they'd talk to the Beanie Kids in our classroom. 

Ashley said they would say,"Please can you set me free!"

Lauren said they would say,"Mrs Wilson we want some food!"

Georgia K added that they would be able to tell us exactly what they wanted to eat.

Patrick thought that talking tadpoles would make especially good pets but also thought they may dob (tell tales) on students.

Yeju said they would enjoy talking to each other and may even say,"Mrs Wilson, I want to do some work!"

Jordan said they would say, "Oh, I like this person!"

Sean said they would say, "Can we eat those cupcakes?"
Amber: said they would let us know if there was a fire, if they wanted to be our friends, if they wanted a chat and if they needed fresh water.
Mackenzie thought it would be amazing and they could ask us to let them go to the creek.