A+ Certificates

Pet Day Reports

George

Hoani

Macaulay

Scott

A+ Certificates

Here are our most recent A+ people!

Jack G Reporting for Springston School

This is what I,  Jack, did at writing today. 

It is about pet day that was the 7th of oct 2012. Its all about the lambs and my class think it's pretty funny. After I recorded this I went and wrote about Pet Day - you might see that on the blog pretty soon too! 

I hope you enjoy it. Many thanks, Jack. 

Peel Forest Camp

Last week we spent some time reflecting on our camp. We thought about things we really enjoyed, times we were nervous about and things we'd never forget.

We made posters to show our thoughts. Click on our ebook below to see our posters. This only has half our posters - the other half will be coming soon! You can also find these on our classroom wall if you would like a closer look.

Senior Athletics

Senior athletics will begin at 11am today.

Senior Athletics

Due to the frost and ground conditions this morning Athletics will not start until 11am.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Spring Writing

Have a listen to the fabulous writing by these boys about Spring. What kind of language features and techniques can you hear?

The boys have been working really hard on their writing so leave them a comment letting them know what you think!

George

Macaulay

Jack M

A+ Certificates

Ancient Civilisations Day

Last Thursday Room 9 held an "Ancient Civilisations Day" to celebrate our inquiry learning.

Please read our book below to find out more.

(Click on the book to read it)

A+ Certificates

Have a look at all our wonderful A+ people!

Electric Writing!

Wow who saw that amazing electrical storm last night?! You didn't?! Check out this photo by our very own Miss Alice...

Didn't she do a great job snapping this photo just as the lightning struck?

Inspired by the storm we made some acrostic poems during writing time, check them out below.

Left: Jack M   Right: Anja

Left: George   Right: Molly

Left: Cameron   Right: Lucy

Left: Millie   Right: Matthew

Left: Brooke   Right: Jackson

Left: Hoani   Right: William

Left: Alice  Right: Rob

Rugby/Netball Tournament

The netball and rugby tournament is cancelled this week.

Macaulay's Haiku

Hoani's Haiku

Jack G's Wet Day Haiku

George's Fotobabble

Millie's Rainy Day

Lucy's Rain Drop Photobabble

Georgia L's Fotobabble

Rain Haikus

Inspired by the rainy day today we tried our hand at writing Haikus.

A Haiku is an Ancient Japanese poem that is made up of 3 lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables and the final line goes back to 3 syllables.

Let us know what you think of our Haiku's.

By Anja

Ancient Greece Links

Greek Vases
The Greek House Challenge

Rugby/Netball Tournament

The rugby/netball tournament for Year 5/6 is postponed until next Thursday.

Alice's Margaret Mahy Fotobabble

Have a listen to Alice's fotobabble about Margaret Mahy!

Online Creative Writing

Here is the link you need to help you do some writing!

Interactive Story Guide

Senior Olympics tomorrow!

Hey Room 9,

Don't forget to come prepared tomorrow for our Senior Olympics morning! You need to come dressed up in colours that represent the country you have been given. Can't remember which country you had? Look below:

Red house members:
England - Molly, Jack M and Hamish
Japan - Alice and Matthew

Blue house members:
Argentina - Georgia G, Scott and Jackson
France (not Scotland like it said on your notice!) - Emily, Macaulay and Hoani

Green house members:
South Africa - Georgia L, Sam and Anja
Ireland - Brooke, Rob and William

Gold house members:
Brazil - Lucy, George and Callum
Australia - Millie, Jack G and Cameron

See you tomorrow!

The Olympic Creed

I was just checking out the insandouts blog and they had a post about The Olympic Creed. Do you know the Olympic Creed is? Well here it is:

"The most important thing is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well"

The insandouts thought the video below was a fantastic example of the Olympic Creed and we have to agree!

Some Olympic Links!

Click on the links below to take you to some websites about the Olympics.

PV Olympics Wiki
Olympic Mascots London 2012

Virtual Incredible Science 2012

Over the next couple of days we will be checking out the Virtual Incredible Science website. This website has lots of interesting and fun science activities and tomorrow we will be watching some science live!

Click on the link below:
Incredible Science

Georgia L's Fotobabble

Voki wouldn't work on our class iPads so Georgia L (and Alice!) were A+ Adaptable and created Fotobabbles about Margaret Mahy instead.

Jack M's Voki

George's Voki

Cameron's Voki

Jackson's Voki

Millie's Voki

Matthew's Voki

Anja's Voki

Hamish's Voki

Rob's Voki

Anna's Voki

Today we made Voki's about the death of Margaret Mahy - here is Anna's.

More show not tell!!

By William

By Lucy

Hoani and Molly's "Showing Not Telling"

By Molly

By Hoani

Show Not Tell!

This week during writing time we have been working on giving our readers clues rather then telling them exactly what is happening.

We read "Beans" by Patricia Grace which has a part about a boy playing hard during his rugby game. We thought about a time when we have played hard. We did lots of visualising to help us remember this time and then we wrote about it.

We still have a bit to work on but here are some of our first attempts at showing rather than telling our readers what is happening.

By Jack G

By George

By Jack M

By Anja

Movie Making - Genre Continued

Here are two other movie previews we watched yesterday. What genre would these be?

Movie Making - Genre

Yesterday we started our new Movie Making unit. We got into our filming groups and we talked about how there are different genres of movies. We watched some movie previews and tried to come up with the best fit genre for them.

Here is one of the previews we watched. What genre do you think it is?

Exciting News!

Hello Room 9!

I have exciting news that I couldn't wait until the start of term to tell you - I have to tell you now!!

We are so lucky! We are getting some iPads for Term 3!

I know I can't wait to use them! Can you think of some educational and creative ways we could use them in our classroom? Leave me a comment if you think of something!

Anja Loves Learning at Springston

The Importance of Working as a Team!

On Friday we talked about how important is it to work as a team (especially when you've got a lot of people in a small space!).
I found this video on Russley Room 7's blog and we thought it summed it up pretty well!
(Well done to "Techofes" too for creating this!)

William's Wordle

For home-learning this week William did a Wordle on fireworks. I really like how he has made some words bigger than others. I think this is very effective.

More Visual Language Posters

By Jack M

By George

Macaulay's Visual Language Poster

A+ Certificates

On Friday the following 3 students received their A+ certificates.

More Visual Language Posters

Here are five more of our visual language posters.

By Millie

By Brooke

By Molly

By Anja

By Lucy

Visual Language Posters

This term we have been working hard on visual language. We have been looking at the elements of layout, font, handwriting, borders and colour. To showcase all the skills we have learnt this term we have created posters of Kenn Nesbitt's poem "My Teacher Ate My Homework". Below are 5 posters, keep an eye on the blog for even more!

By Jack G

By Cameron

By William

By Hoani

By Jackson