In the first week back of term, Les Mills World of Fitness came to help our school get fit and healthy.

 To start it off on Thursday we did some martial arts. Most of thought it wouldn't be much fun exercising but it was really fun in the end.

 Les Mills is also helping Bradford earn money - each time a parent goes to Les Mills they give a dollar to the school. So far we have $122. The unfortunate part of it is that they only come once a fortnight.

The teachers do the exercises with us although Mrs Tobin seems to take a lot of photos when the actions get really fast!

By Natasha and Damian

DISCO

Our cool and famous disco was held last week in Room 1.  The council were responsible for the decorations and the theme.  Everyone had to dress funky like Michael Jackson, or in things glittzy.

We had some competitions to see who could do the best Michael Jackson Moonwalk, coolest buddy dancers, and best dancers.  Jaidyn did the best moonwalk.  Mr Graham and Storm's dad showed us some Michael Jackson dance moves - those oldies can still move.

We put our new disco ball to good use.  We could buy glow sticks, drinks and chips.   Everyone was sad when the disco finished at 7pm.

Look at these cool dudes.
They had a great time.

Was sleep walking part of the dance?

Hens Lay At Last!

The first egg laid this term was laid on the 14 of June 2010. We know what you're thinking... finally!

We all think it's Snowy- we all recognise the style of her eggs. It's a bit smaller than the eggs layed by other hens and its very pale. We were all very excited and when Aaron said there was an egg Jeannie and Sam thought he was joking, but when Jeannie looked into the cage she shouted, "There is an egg! There is an egg!" But Sam still said, "You're still joking. I know there is no egg at all!" But when Sam unlocked the padlock he exclaimed, "Oh my gosh! There really is an egg!"

When Jeannie took the egg back to the class room she whispered "There was an EGG!" and everyone clapped as loud as they could seeing the egg safely in the carton. Mrs.Tobin was the most excited of all. She clapped and cheered, she even took a photo of it! Here is the photo with the very special egg that saved the hens lives (before they layed this egg we were threatening them to make chicken soup!)

famous egg >                        Published by Aaron, Jeannie, and Sam.

Vege Creatures

Today in Discovery some of us made creatures out of vegetables.

Mrs Tobin bought some potatoes, carrots, leeks, brussel sprouts and some long stuff that looked like grass but smelled like onions.

We had a chopping board, some knives and some toothpicks.  Before we started we had to think what our Vege Creature would look like.  Then we had to cut the vegetables and stick the pieces together with the toothpicks.

Here are some of our Vege Creatures




This is Briarna's creature.
She calls it a
Poiseffilus-infullus.

(You will have to ask
Briarna how to pronounce
that)








This is Kian's Vege Creature.
He calls it a Dragith.  It has large
wings so that it can fly.







We hope that we can make Vege Creatures in Discovery again.

In Discovery today we took photos of each other and made these faces.  They look really funny.

We had to take a photo and print it out on the photocopier.  Then we had to cut it into strips so that we could weave it.

Weaving was quite hard because you had to make sure the pieces stayed in the right place.  Also you had to get the over, under bits right.

We're not too happy with our pictures.  Our eyes look weird. The one in the book looked much better.

Next time we have to make sure that the faces are exactly the same.

Ethan & Regan

Week 4 Review

We have been using our 'hats' to reflect on the week.

Red hat (feelings)
   We felt we had a pleasant week.  Regan and Briarna were put on the Power of One wall, we made ice-cream, and the weather was nice.
Abbey, Zay, Regan


Black hat (not so good things)
   We had some boys who tried to start a gang.  We know this is not right because it can lead to bullying and we don't like bullying at our school.
Ryan, Jeannie, Alex


White hat (information)
   When we were making ice-cream we learnt that if you add salt to the ice it helps with the freezing of the ice cream.  Some of us also learnt how to multiply numbers by 0.1.  (and we're really good at it)
Chilay, Andrew, Liam


Yellow hat (benefits)
   The children who were on level 3 1/2 - 4 were given breakfast in the library.  They had a 'fear factor' challenge where they had to see how quickly they could eat a dry weetbix.  It was cool fun.  We hope we are 4's so we can go again.   Our student teachers have been teaching us heaps of cool things.
Elle, Damian, Kian,Storm, Aaron


Green hat (creativity)
   We were very creative when we made our ice cream and also in some of our discovery activities.
Briarna, Vaughan, Katelyn, Jason


Next week we are going to try and import some cool hats for our page

  

Bullying Skits

This term is such a long term that we have two inquiry topics and the first is bullying.  There are four different types of bullying, physical, verbal, exclusion and cyber.  Some children wrote skits around these types of bullying.

The Power of One show that we saw last term taught us about the types of bullying and the people who  take part.

Our skits had to have a bully, a target, a Power of one person, and a bystander.  Most of us had a narrator as well.  The narrator helped to hold the story together.

Some of us wrote our own skits and some of us wrote with a buddy.  Our skits had to be short simple and punchy to hook the audience in and get the message across.  we had to decide on the scene - where our skit took place, and when we were writing it  we had to use dialogue instead for the narrator telling the story.

We had to choose our own characters from people in the class and everybody had something to do.

We had to practice lots before we performed to the class and then we had auditions to see whose skits would be performed in assembly.  Mrs Tobin chose one of each type of bullying.

To identify our characters we made head-bands with 'bully', 'target', etc on.  This helped the audience know who people were.

Here are our wonderful skits that we performed in assembly.

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