Happy Father's Day!

Wishing all our wonderful Dads a very happy and relaxing Father's Day!

Book Week Shelfies!

As part of our Book Week celebrations families created their 'Shelfies'. Inspired by Miss Y the Teacher Librarian at St Martins in Rosanna.

 

Shelfies from ccoffa

Read Across the Universe! It's Book Week!

We have had a wonderful week of celebrations for Book Week. We had a dress up day on Wednesday and everyone dressed up in the space theme. The Preps and their buddies shared books and had a fabulous time. We love reading books in Prep!

We had fun on our dressing up day and we had a really fun time at the parade. Alexa

We made suitcases and we had to draw things that we would take to space. We showed our suitcases to our buddies. Chantelle

We read 'Too Many Elephants in This House' and made elephants out of paper bags. Joshua

We  brought our favourite books to school and we shared our books. Declan

Click on the photos to enlarge them.

Book Week 2013 on PhotoPeach

What is your favourite book? Do you have a favourite author?

Share with us.

What Am I?

We have been writing What Am I?'s in Literacy. With our partner we thought of an animal and wrote the clues. We learnt that it is important not to make the first clue too easy! After we had written our What Am I?'s we practised reading clearly and fluently and recorded our clues on audioboo. Can you guess the animals?

Today we have:

Frances 
Stephanie (Frances and Stephanie wrote theirs together but missed recording together)
Sophie and Rosie 
Alexa and Riley

listen to ‘What Am I?’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘What Am I?’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘What Am I?’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘What Am I?’ on Audioboo

Do you have a 'What Am I?' to share with us?

What Am I?

We have been writing What Am I?'s in Literacy. With our partner we thought of an animal and wrote the clues. We learnt that it is important not to make the first clue too easy! After we had written our What Am I?'s we practised reading clearly and fluently and recorded our clues on audioboo. Can you guess the animals?

Today we have: 

Caitlin and Simon
Ebony and Declan
Chantelle and Patrick
Olivia and Hamish

listen to ‘What Am I?’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘What Am I?’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘What Am I? ’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘What Am I?’ on Audioboo

Share a 'What Am I?' with us and post it in the comment box.

What Am I?

We have been writing What Am I?'s in Literacy. With our partner we thought of an animal and wrote the clues. We learnt that it is important not to make the first clue too easy! After we had written our What Am I?'s we practised reading clearly and fluently and recorded our clues on audioboo. Can you guess the animals?

Check out our audiboos over the next couple of days. You can put your answers in the comment box.

Today we have: 

Campbell and Niamh
Eva and Joshua
Gracie and Joel
Elva and James

listen to ‘What Am I?’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘What Am I?’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘What Am I?’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘What Am I?’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘What Am I?’ on Audioboo

Write a 'What Am I?' with your family and paste it in the comment box.

Toy Stories!

We had a fabulous incursion on Tuesday. We learnt all about toys! The Preps and the Juniors worked together in mixed groups to explore toys from throughout the ages. We discovered that Mrs Fitt is the 'jacks' champion of St. Luke's. We learnt lots of interesting information about the history of toys and we were able to play many games that our parents and grandparents would have played when they were children. 
Thanks to Cynda and Barry from the History Box for an action packed and engaging session.  

We did some writing about our incursion - here are our discoveries and the things we enjoyed.

I learnt that toys are still fun when they are old. I discovered puppets are made out of clay sometimes because I made one out of clay. I enjoyed drawing on the rocks. I wonder why the tin toy robot falls apart? Alexa
I liked the puppets because they gave me lots of ideas. Campbell
I learnt who invented Thomas the Tank Engine and I enjoyed making the puppets too and in two days we can take them home and I liked the Ngaka Ngaka too. Naimh
I enjoyed doing the hula hoop. It was fun because it rocked around my body and it also went around my neck. Caitlin
I enjoyed making the puppets because it was fun and I enjoyed playing Ngaka Ngaka. Gracie
I discovered other old toys are from other different countries like Egypt and the Pyramids. Chantelle
I liked the puppets and the Barbies. It was fun. I loved another Barbie and playing with the toys. Sophie
I learnt the you can still play with old toys from the history. I liked when I dressed up as Gepetto it was funny that they all laughed. Simon
I learnt when I made my puppet that I can play with it when it's dry. Stephanie
I enjoyed making puppets because I love puppets. Ebony
I enjoyed the puppets because we got to make our own puppet. I enjoyed the Lego because you can make stuff like houses. Eva
I enjoyed making the puppets and making the rocks. Olivia
I discovered that everything was fun. I enjoyed doing Ngaka Ngaka with my friends. I enjoyed doing the puppets. I enjoyed going outside. Riley
I enjoyed drawing on the rocks because we got to keep them. I enjoyed playing with the spinning tops because they spin very fast. I learnt the Aboriginals have a game called Ngaka Ngaka which is like Noughts and Crosses. James
I enjoyed the puppets because I liked putting on the head. Hamish
I enjoyed the Ngaka Ngaka because we got to draw on the rocks and I can play Ngaka Ngaka and I enjoyed playing with the toys. Frances
I learnt that you don't need to call Noughts and Crosses, Noughts and Crosses you can call it Ngaka Ngaka. I enjoyed Ngaka Ngaka. I enjoyed the skipping because it was fun and it was a bit tricky. Patrick
I learnt who invented Thomas the Tank Engine and I enjoyed making the puppets too and in two days we can take them home and I liked the Ngaka Ngaka too. Naimh
The Aboriginal people have a game called Ngaka Ngaka which is like Noughts and Crosses. Elva
I enjoyed bowling because I knocked down three skittles. Joshua
I discovered a new game called Ngaka Ngaka and I loved playing Ngaka Ngaka and I learnt that it is an Aboriginal game. Joel
I learnt to play Ngaka Ngaka. I liked to make my puppet. We made stones. Declan

Preps talk to your families about ALL the toys and games you played on Tuesday. What is your favourite toy or game? Share with us!

Toy Stories from marieck

The Story of Noah's Ark

In Religion we are reading stories from the Old Testament in the Bible. We have enjoyed learning about Noah's Ark. At computer time we worked with a partner to create our own impressions of Noah's Ark. We used Tux Paint to make our pictures.

What is your favourite story from the Old Testament?

Quick Quiz Week!

Here are five quick quiz questions for you to solve. Write your answers down and bring them to school. We will share the answers on Friday. Good luck!

1. Which Letterland character likes to juggle?

2. If I have 15 lollies and I eat 6 how many lollies do I have left?

3. How many of each animal did Noah take onto the Ark?

4. Finish this line from a song you know - Give me a home among the ______________ ?

5. How do we say number 4 in Italian? (clue - it starts with 'qu')

Can you think of a quick quiz question? You can share it in the comments section.