Wednesday, February 25, 2015

An update from Saoirse

Look what happened today!
We have been waiting for the Monarch to hatch.

Now the wings need to dry before it can fly!

Thursday, February 19, 2015

We have been busy Bellbirds!


We have 2 budding architects ,engineers or perhaps builders in our class.  
They have loved  building and designing structures using the wooden blocks over the last 2 weeks. 
Lucy is creative!  She made a cute cat.  She thinks it is pretty, wonderful and unique!

 We have  explored how to make different colours using the colour paddles. 
Fynn discovered that if you mix green and red you can make brown!

 Olivia thought making her own monster was fun! 
Her monster is a friendly monster with one eye. He is not real though!


 Cooper enjoyed making sock puppets so much he made 2! They can talk to each other.


 Please come in to our classrooms to see our fabulous fish.  
We have been learning about the primary and secondary colours.

 We love reading lots of stories at school.
Last week we read the story Elephant is Stuck.  
We put on our  white hats to find out facts about elephants.  
We also had to think of words that we could use instead of 'big'. We know heaps!

Today we  read the story Rabbit and Rooster's Ride.  
We talked about  words that tell us how we move.  
We can climb up and down a hill in lots of different ways!
We called these  doing words verbs!





Thursday, February 12, 2015

Discovery is Great Fun!

The Bellbirds have had enormous fun today.

Emma thinks we are creative!
Tushil enjoyed building with the blocks.
Sophia liked making a Valentines Day card for her family.
Aziah  thought our Discovery time was awesome. 

Matthew thought making coloured water from flowers was interesting. 
He really liked squashing the flowers with the rolling pin. 




 Mitchell, Jayvia and Sione had cool fun building the  Brandenburg Gate!

Phoenix and Izaac thought blowing through a straw to make Frozen pictures was fun.  
It was very popular.







Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Rubbish for lunch!

Lesley Ottey visited The Bellbirds today.
She talked about thinking carefully about
 what we use for wrapping our lunches in.

Do we need wrap, or will a reusable box do?
Lesley say that ice cream containers are very good.
At Ashley School we try not to have gladwrap in our lunch boxes.





We need to remember ... 
TO TAKE OUR RUBBISH HOME!

Thank you once again Lesley. We will see you again soon.

Friday, February 6, 2015

Art and Science!

We love experiments!
This week we have been learning about the colour wheel and colour mixing ready for our Painting topic. 

We know that red, blue and yellow are the primary colours and we know we can mix these colours to make new colours. 

We set up this experiment using food colouring in water .  

 We now know that water can go up! 
 The colours mixed together very quickly.
Watch out for some more colour experiments in the coming weeks!


Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Luci wants you to know about adjectives...


Luci wrote this blog entry.
She wants you all to know that we are learning about adjectives!



Come in and see the display on the Literacy room wall.



Monday, February 2, 2015

Saoirse's blog entry...

Saoirse said, 

" The caterpillar will turn into a butterfly.
A Monarch butterfly!"



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Thank you Saoirse for bringing this plant to school.

We can keep the swan plant in the Literacy room.

Keep checking to see what happens.